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"content": "\u003cp>A former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-clara-county\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a> jail guard was sentenced Tuesday to 45 days in jail after he was convicted of a misdemeanor for helping two incarcerated people attack another jailed man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said Francisco Izayas Castillo “approved the beating” of an incarcerated man at Elmwood Correctional Facility in Milpitas by two other incarcerated men in 2022, providing them rubber gloves, opening the victim’s cell and watching the attack take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castillo, 42, tried to cover up the incident, authorities said, until another correctional officer on a following shift noticed suspicious injuries on the victim and began an investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Correctional officers are sworn to protect the public and the inmates,” Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen said in a statement on Tuesday. “This officer betrayed the public, betrayed the inmates and betrayed the badge. My office will hold corrupt correctional officers to account for their behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nelson McElmurry, an attorney for Castillo, said Tuesday that Castillo plans to appeal the case and seek a stay of the ruling. “He maintains his innocence and intends to fight as long as is necessary,” McElmurry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037905\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037905\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240324_SANTACLARASUPERIORCOURT_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240324_SANTACLARASUPERIORCOURT_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240324_SANTACLARASUPERIORCOURT_GC-2-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240324_SANTACLARASUPERIORCOURT_GC-2-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240324_SANTACLARASUPERIORCOURT_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240324_SANTACLARASUPERIORCOURT_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240324_SANTACLARASUPERIORCOURT_GC-2-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Superior Court in San José on March 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Castillo knew the attack was going to happen because the “attackers had told him their intentions just 30 minutes earlier in a meeting at his desk,” during which Castillo told them to “‘handle it,’” Rosen’s statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castillo opened the victim’s cell using his control panel, and the two incarcerated men “punched and kicked the victim for about 30 seconds” inside the cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The victim later activated his cell’s emergency call button, which authorities said turned on a green light above his cell door and sent a “series of pings throughout the module to notify the guard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castillo was the only deputy in the area, and he silenced the notification and turned off the emergency light, authorities said. “He approached the victim’s cell but did not turn on his body-worn camera, ensuring there was no record of their conversation.”[aside postID=news_12083600 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260514-GILROY-ICE-ADE-02-KQED.jpg']The victim, who has not been publicly identified, requested help from Castillo, but he did not call for medical help and didn’t report the attack. He instead met with the attackers to “concoct a plan to keep word of the attack from getting out,” according to Rosen’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two men who attacked the victim and another incarcerated man who stood watch at the cell were charged and convicted of the beating, while Castillo was fired, Rosen’s office said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castillo is scheduled to return to court to surrender on June 9. It was not immediately clear where he would serve his sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castillo’s sentence was handed down on the same day a county body charged with oversight of the sheriff’s office and its work in jails presented its annual report to the county Board of Supervisors, recapping major incidents and offering recommendations for improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of Corrections and Law Enforcement Monitoring, run by Long Beach-based consultant OIR Group, praised Sheriff Robert Jonsen, saying that under his tenure, there has been “increased access and regular, meaningful communication with Sheriff’s Office officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonsen’s office has taken an approach “of cooperative engagement…rather than the grudging and limited compliance of our early years under the prior Sheriff,” the report said, referring to former Sheriff Laurie Smith, who resigned from office in late 2022 during a corruption case involving her issuing of concealed carry gun permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11777184\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11777184\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith fired three deputies after they were convicted of second-degree murder for beating inmate Michael Tyree to death in 2015. 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The sheriff also fired a fourth deputy, Pablo Tempra, for lying about the incident, records released Sept. 27 show. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The report flagged a serious Internal Affairs case in which a civilian employee of the jails was alleged to have been “bringing drugs into the facility and providing them to female IPs (incarcerated persons) in exchange for sexual favors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sheriff’s Jail Crimes Unit “corroborated the allegations through a surveillance operation,” and the sheriff’s office put the employee on administrative leave and later fired him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A search of the employee’s locker “revealed that this conduct was part of a prolonged pattern,” the report said, and criminal charges for sexual activity with a confined adult and bringing drugs into a jail are pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report noted that OCLEM later received an anonymous complaint “alleging that particular Sheriff’s Office leaders had been aware of complaints about this employee’s misconduct for more than a year but failed to act to protect his female victims,” which prompted another investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s office, in a written statement, said the allegations from the anonymous complaint were “thoroughly investigated and ultimately determined to be unsupported by any credible evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also discussed the sheriff’s review of the death of an incarcerated man after he was “brutally assaulted” by other incarcerated men at the Elmwood Correctional Facility in January 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report agreed with the sheriff’s office findings that there was no negligence or misconduct on the part of deputies, but noted an “additional level of formal scrutiny was warranted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061982\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-SCCSHERIFF-JG-3_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-SCCSHERIFF-JG-3_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-SCCSHERIFF-JG-3_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-SCCSHERIFF-JG-3_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Sheriff Robert Jonsen speaks during a press conference outside of the sheriff’s office on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The report said the facility could benefit from larger surveillance monitor screens for deputies, as the attack lasted 15 minutes and much of it was recorded, but not seen in real time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also said the predictability of the deputies’ welfare checks on incarcerated people “created risk,” and suggested making those checks “more staggered and unpredictable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raj Jayadev, the director of community organizing group Silicon Valley De-Bug, said he has several concerns about the work of the oversight consultant, including its praise of the sheriff’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Using the former disgraced sheriff as a litmus test is probably the wrong way to start a conversation of what is valuable oversight or transparency by the sheriff’s department. That was such an incredibly low bar,” Jayadev said of Smith’s tenure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the report is “essentially just documenting the violence or documenting the failures to respond,” while not doing enough to make real changes for people in the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to the drug smuggling and sex case, and noted the county’s jails remain under a federal consent decree due to poor jail conditions and outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s in the culture of incarceration in Santa Clara County and what’s tolerated and who’s listened to and who is believed and who is respected,” Jayadev said. “The consistent throughline since the killing of Michael Tyree is that those who are held in custody are not heard, listened to, or respected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11779149\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11779149\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office is set to get long-awaited civilian oversight, one of many reforms spurred by the beating death of Michael Tyree, an inmate in the county's Main Jail.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Santa Clara County Main Jail, where inmate Michael Tyree was fatally beaten in 2015. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tyree was a mentally ill man detained at the county’s Main Jail when he was fatally beaten in his cell by three sheriff’s correctional deputies in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s office said it appreciates the report from OCLEM and its recommendations, many of which have already been put into place, and that it remains “committed to strengthening our systems, operations, transparency and prevention efforts moving forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonsen, in the statement, said independent oversight is a critical component of maintaining public trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transparency has been and will remain a cornerstone of my commitment as Sheriff,” Jonsen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Correctional officers are sworn to protect the public and the inmates,” Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen said in a statement on Tuesday. “This officer betrayed the public, betrayed the inmates and betrayed the badge. My office will hold corrupt correctional officers to account for their behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nelson McElmurry, an attorney for Castillo, said Tuesday that Castillo plans to appeal the case and seek a stay of the ruling. “He maintains his innocence and intends to fight as long as is necessary,” McElmurry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037905\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037905\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240324_SANTACLARASUPERIORCOURT_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240324_SANTACLARASUPERIORCOURT_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240324_SANTACLARASUPERIORCOURT_GC-2-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240324_SANTACLARASUPERIORCOURT_GC-2-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240324_SANTACLARASUPERIORCOURT_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240324_SANTACLARASUPERIORCOURT_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20240324_SANTACLARASUPERIORCOURT_GC-2-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Superior Court in San José on March 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Castillo knew the attack was going to happen because the “attackers had told him their intentions just 30 minutes earlier in a meeting at his desk,” during which Castillo told them to “‘handle it,’” Rosen’s statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castillo opened the victim’s cell using his control panel, and the two incarcerated men “punched and kicked the victim for about 30 seconds” inside the cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The victim later activated his cell’s emergency call button, which authorities said turned on a green light above his cell door and sent a “series of pings throughout the module to notify the guard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castillo was the only deputy in the area, and he silenced the notification and turned off the emergency light, authorities said. “He approached the victim’s cell but did not turn on his body-worn camera, ensuring there was no record of their conversation.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The victim, who has not been publicly identified, requested help from Castillo, but he did not call for medical help and didn’t report the attack. He instead met with the attackers to “concoct a plan to keep word of the attack from getting out,” according to Rosen’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two men who attacked the victim and another incarcerated man who stood watch at the cell were charged and convicted of the beating, while Castillo was fired, Rosen’s office said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castillo is scheduled to return to court to surrender on June 9. It was not immediately clear where he would serve his sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castillo’s sentence was handed down on the same day a county body charged with oversight of the sheriff’s office and its work in jails presented its annual report to the county Board of Supervisors, recapping major incidents and offering recommendations for improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of Corrections and Law Enforcement Monitoring, run by Long Beach-based consultant OIR Group, praised Sheriff Robert Jonsen, saying that under his tenure, there has been “increased access and regular, meaningful communication with Sheriff’s Office officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonsen’s office has taken an approach “of cooperative engagement…rather than the grudging and limited compliance of our early years under the prior Sheriff,” the report said, referring to former Sheriff Laurie Smith, who resigned from office in late 2022 during a corruption case involving her issuing of concealed carry gun permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11777184\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11777184\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith fired three deputies after they were convicted of second-degree murder for beating inmate Michael Tyree to death in 2015. The sheriff also fired a fourth deputy, Pablo Tempra, for lying about the incident, records released Sept. 27 show.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-1-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-1-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-1-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-1-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-1-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-1-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith fired three deputies after they were convicted of second-degree murder for beating inmate Michael Tyree to death in 2015. The sheriff also fired a fourth deputy, Pablo Tempra, for lying about the incident, records released Sept. 27 show. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The report flagged a serious Internal Affairs case in which a civilian employee of the jails was alleged to have been “bringing drugs into the facility and providing them to female IPs (incarcerated persons) in exchange for sexual favors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sheriff’s Jail Crimes Unit “corroborated the allegations through a surveillance operation,” and the sheriff’s office put the employee on administrative leave and later fired him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A search of the employee’s locker “revealed that this conduct was part of a prolonged pattern,” the report said, and criminal charges for sexual activity with a confined adult and bringing drugs into a jail are pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report noted that OCLEM later received an anonymous complaint “alleging that particular Sheriff’s Office leaders had been aware of complaints about this employee’s misconduct for more than a year but failed to act to protect his female victims,” which prompted another investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s office, in a written statement, said the allegations from the anonymous complaint were “thoroughly investigated and ultimately determined to be unsupported by any credible evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also discussed the sheriff’s review of the death of an incarcerated man after he was “brutally assaulted” by other incarcerated men at the Elmwood Correctional Facility in January 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report agreed with the sheriff’s office findings that there was no negligence or misconduct on the part of deputies, but noted an “additional level of formal scrutiny was warranted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061982\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-SCCSHERIFF-JG-3_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-SCCSHERIFF-JG-3_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-SCCSHERIFF-JG-3_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251028-SCCSHERIFF-JG-3_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Sheriff Robert Jonsen speaks during a press conference outside of the sheriff’s office on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The report said the facility could benefit from larger surveillance monitor screens for deputies, as the attack lasted 15 minutes and much of it was recorded, but not seen in real time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also said the predictability of the deputies’ welfare checks on incarcerated people “created risk,” and suggested making those checks “more staggered and unpredictable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raj Jayadev, the director of community organizing group Silicon Valley De-Bug, said he has several concerns about the work of the oversight consultant, including its praise of the sheriff’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Using the former disgraced sheriff as a litmus test is probably the wrong way to start a conversation of what is valuable oversight or transparency by the sheriff’s department. That was such an incredibly low bar,” Jayadev said of Smith’s tenure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the report is “essentially just documenting the violence or documenting the failures to respond,” while not doing enough to make real changes for people in the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to the drug smuggling and sex case, and noted the county’s jails remain under a federal consent decree due to poor jail conditions and outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s in the culture of incarceration in Santa Clara County and what’s tolerated and who’s listened to and who is believed and who is respected,” Jayadev said. “The consistent throughline since the killing of Michael Tyree is that those who are held in custody are not heard, listened to, or respected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11779149\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11779149\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office is set to get long-awaited civilian oversight, one of many reforms spurred by the beating death of Michael Tyree, an inmate in the county's Main Jail.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Santa Clara County Main Jail, where inmate Michael Tyree was fatally beaten in 2015. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tyree was a mentally ill man detained at the county’s Main Jail when he was fatally beaten in his cell by three sheriff’s correctional deputies in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s office said it appreciates the report from OCLEM and its recommendations, many of which have already been put into place, and that it remains “committed to strengthening our systems, operations, transparency and prevention efforts moving forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonsen, in the statement, said independent oversight is a critical component of maintaining public trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transparency has been and will remain a cornerstone of my commitment as Sheriff,” Jonsen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:47 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three former correctional deputies who were charged in the fatal beating of a man incarcerated at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-clara-county\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a> jail in 2015 are likely to be paroled soon after taking a plea deal on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three had initially been found guilty of second-degree murder, but the convictions were overturned in 2022 after a change in state law invalidated one of the legal doctrines considered at the time of the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/michael-tyree\">Michael Tyree\u003c/a>, who had a mental illness and was in custody awaiting the availability of a treatment bed, was found bruised and covered with feces and vomit early on Aug. 27, 2015, inside his cell at the county’s Main Jail. The deputies, Jereh Lubrin, Matthew Farris and Rafael Rodriguez, were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11489517/three-santa-clara-sheriffs-deputies-found-guilty-of-killing-mentally-ill-inmate\">initially convicted in 2017\u003c/a> and each sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Lubrin, Farris and Rodriguez all pleaded guilty to one count of voluntary manslaughter, agreeing to a deal to serve 11 years in state prison — including time already served — followed by three years of parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today in court, three former correctional officers … admitted to the judge and our community that they beat to death Michael Tyree,” Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen said after the hearing. “These guards who are sworn to protect our community as well as the inmates in their care walked into a mentally ill man’s cell at night and attacked him like predators for close to five minutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For at least the last month, all three have been on home detention. Officials will calculate their total credit for time served and good behavior when they return on Oct. 22 for sentencing, but Judge Benjamin William told the men that, given the years they’ve already spent in prison, “the court expects that you will be at, or just about at, credit for time served at the time of sentencing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Braker, the supervising deputy district attorney for the office’s homicide unit, asked each defendant if they personally assaulted or aided and abetted the assault of Tyree, causing his death — as well as if they did so with “conscious disregard for human life.” All three men answered yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plea comes after almost nine years of legal proceedings related to Tyree’s killing, which led to the creation of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11779144/santa-clara-sheriff-to-get-long-awaited-civilian-oversight\">civilian oversight\u003c/a> in Santa Clara County and raised broader questions about the treatment of those with mental illnesses in jails there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=news_11779144 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for Lubrin, Farris and Rodriguez had appeals pending in 2018 when California lawmakers enacted a change to state law, SB 1437, invalidating the “natural and probable consequences” doctrine that was considered in their trial. That doctrine allows a defendant to be found guilty of murder if the person participated in a dangerous crime during which an accomplice committed murder. The legal doctrine required that the killing be a predictable outcome of the original crime, such as a violent robbery or, in this case, the alleged deadly beating of a prisoner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under this doctrine, a jury could convict someone of murder even if they had not directly killed the victim if that person’s murder was the natural or probable result of their actions or inactions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge instructed the jury that had convicted Lubrin, Farris and Rodriguez to consider whether the death of the victim was a natural or probable result of the defendants’ actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, an appellate court ruled that the invalidation of the doctrine could be applied retroactively on appeal under separate state legislation, SB 775, and reversed the convictions of all three former deputies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appellate ruling cited arguments made by the attorney general’s office that the convictions could still be upheld under a different legal principle known as “implied malice,” in which the men could be convicted if they knew that their actions could result in death and still proceeded, but that would have required a new trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Supreme Court upheld the appellate court’s ruling, which meant the decision to bring the men to a second trial went to Santa Clara County prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen said after the hearing on Tuesday that the district attorney’s office had been preparing to retry the case based on malice murder before the defendants came forward and said they would plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter and take the maximum sentence for the charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Based upon that offer from the defense, as well as their admission in court that they committed this act and they did it with conscious disregard for human life, we accepted that disposition, the defendants pled guilty and the case is concluded,” Rosen said. “We brought some finality, some measure of justice to Michael Tyree’s family as well as our entire community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Tempra also reported seeing Farris and Rodriguez “knuckle bump” as they left the module, as Tyree lay dying in his cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation, however, also found that Tempra, who controlled the doors to access Tyree’s housing unit, failed to document that Lubrin told him he had used force and also failed to report it to a supervisor. None of the three deputies officially reported using force that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to reach Tempra Friday evening for comment were unsuccessful. The Sheriff’s Office did not comment beyond the release of investigative reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s criminal investigation found that Tyree could be heard screaming for several minutes “and was accompanied by the sounds of thumping, wall banging and what sounded like blows to a person’s body.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Deputy Koret Shettleworth']'There was a level of inmate abuse that was deemed acceptable.'[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tempra claimed he didn’t hear any noise coming from inmates in the unit during the time of the beating and death. The report said Tempera’s claim was “not credible based on the evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lubrin came back for a cell check and discovered Tyree unresponsive after midnight. He was declared dead early on Aug. 27, 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The independent report includes interviews with some of the deputies' colleagues, including Deputy Koret Shettleworth, who attended the sheriff’s academy with Rodriquez and Farris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shettleworth told investigators about what he called a training technique, “in which a training officer would not let a trainee off of probation until the trainee had a physical altercation with an inmate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a level of inmate abuse that was deemed acceptable” at the Main Jail, Shettleworth said, according to the reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sheriff’s Office has revised its use-of-force policy and updated training since Tyree’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney representing Tyree’s family and Villa has faulted the county for “the systemic failure of criminalizing mental illness” and failing to provide treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Juan and Michael should have been on a psychiatric unit not ‘protective custody,’” said the attorney Paula Canny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced as part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/police-records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Reporting Project\u003c/a>, a collaboration of 40 newsrooms across the state to obtain and report on police misconduct and serious use-of-force records unsealed in 2019.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>For the first time in 20 years, there's a sheriff's race in Santa Clara County that's contested. Five-term incumbent Laurie Smith's department has come under scrutiny in the last few years for the mistreatment of jail inmates and overspending. But her challenger, John Hirokawa, is less well-known, and the question remains whether voters are swayed by the department's internal problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith, a Republican, was the first woman to be elected sheriff in California. In the June primary, Smith captured 43 percent of the vote — not enough to avoid a runoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Challenger John Hirokawa, a Democrat who was the undersheriff in Santa Clara County until he retired two years ago, won 32 percent of the vote. The remaining votes were split among three other candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Smith and Hirokawa favor putting more resources into addressing campus sexual assault and limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities. And they both support a plan to build a new county jail. But one issue dominating the campaign is the sheriff’s responsibility for how the jails are run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703413\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 940px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ConvictedDeputies.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11703413\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ConvictedDeputies.jpg\" alt=\"Three Santa Clara County Sheriff's deputies were convicted in 2017 of murdering mentally ill inmate Michael Tyree in his cell in 2015. From left: Rafael Rodriguez, Matthew Farris and Jereh Lubrin.\" width=\"940\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ConvictedDeputies.jpg 940w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ConvictedDeputies-160x93.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ConvictedDeputies-800x464.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ConvictedDeputies-240x139.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ConvictedDeputies-375x217.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ConvictedDeputies-520x301.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three Santa Clara County Sheriff's deputies were convicted in 2017 of murdering mentally ill inmate Michael Tyree in his cell in 2015. From left: Rafael Rodriguez, Matthew Farris and Jereh Lubrin. \u003ccite>(Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Jail Inmate Death Exposed Inhumane Treatment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This election is the first since the 2015 jail \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11039666/two-mentally-ill-inmates-died-one-month-in-santa-clara\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">death\u003c/a> of inmate Michael Tyree. The 31-year-old suffered from mental illness and was being held at the jail for his own safety until he could be released into treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703402\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11703402 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MichaelTyree-160x169.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Michael Tyree several years before he was beaten to death in his cell by three former Santa Clara County sheriff's deputies.\" width=\"160\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MichaelTyree-160x169.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MichaelTyree-800x846.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MichaelTyree-960x1015.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MichaelTyree-240x254.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MichaelTyree-375x396.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MichaelTyree-520x550.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MichaelTyree.jpg 998w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Michael Tyree several years before he was beaten to death in his cell by three former Santa Clara County sheriff's deputies. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Tyree family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But one August night, three jail deputies entered his cell and beat him to death. All three were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11640126/jail-deputies-face-15-years-to-life-for-fatal-beating-of-mentally-ill-inmate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sentenced\u003c/a> in January to 15 years to life for murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyree’s killing exposed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10875665/santa-clara-county-jail-report-finds-widespread-complaints-of-inmate-abuse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">culture\u003c/a> of brutality toward people with mental illness in the county jails, along with poor supervision and lax discipline of correctional deputies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Sheriff’s Department Response\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Smith was praised for swiftly arresting and identifying the correctional officers who killed Tyree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an Oct. 8 candidates’ forum in Cupertino she also touted \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11285099/inmates-brutal-beating-death-spurs-scrutiny-and-reform-in-santa-clara-county-jails\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reforms\u003c/a> she has implemented since his death to prevent future violence against mentally ill inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have teams within the jail of multi-service deputies that are specially trained to deal with people with mental health,” Smith told the audience at the League of Women Voters’ forum. “We've increased the number of mental health professionals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hirokawa, who was Smith’s second in command when Tyree died, suggested the killing could have been prevented. At the event in Cupertino he said he had tried to increase the number of psychiatrists on staff before Tyree died, but the sheriff blocked him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703532\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 235px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/john-hirokawa-235x300.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11703532\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/john-hirokawa-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/john-hirokawa-235x300.jpg 235w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/john-hirokawa-235x300-160x204.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://johnhirokawa.com/meet-john-hirokawa/\">Courtesy of the Hirokawa Campaign\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hirokawa Campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The county jails were down to one psychiatrist for over a thousand seriously mentally ill inmates,” Hirokawa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hirokowa says before he retired he had developed the plan to create the mental health teams that Smith is now touting. He said it took Tyree’s death and a federal lawsuit to force the sheriff’s hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the killing, the Prison Law Office sued the sheriff’s department in federal court for excessive solitary confinement and use of force on inmates. The lawsuit was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/opa/newsroom/Pages/jailclassactionlitigationsettlement.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">settled \u003c/a>just last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an Oct. 23 statement Executive Director Donald Specter wrote, “Although the negotiations were long and difficult, the outcome will result in dramatic improvements to the jails that will help reduce recidivism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specter praised Smith and other county officials for what he called their “complete transparency,” and said they were dedicated to addressing shortcomings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Sheriff has already made substantial efforts to remediate some of the deficiencies in the jails,” Specter wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703529\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11703529\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheriff Laurie Smith, a Republican, was the first woman to be elected sheriff in California. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Questions About Oversight\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But not everyone shares that view. Retired Superior Court judge LaDoris Cordell thinks Smith must leave before there can be lasting change in the sheriff’s department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordell chaired a blue ribbon commission established to investigate Tyree’s death and improve conditions for inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we discovered was a culture of resistance to change and a culture of retaliation,” said Cordell in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission made 101 \u003ca href=\"///Users/juliesmall/Documents/Immigrant%20Detention%20Expansion/Attachment-148198.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recommendations\u003c/a> to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, including one to replace the sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10927587\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10927587 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19109_IMG_8076-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Ribbon Commission chair LaDoris Cordell before the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19109_IMG_8076-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19109_IMG_8076-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19109_IMG_8076-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19109_IMG_8076-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19109_IMG_8076-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue Ribbon Commission chair LaDoris Cordell speaks before the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the commission surveyed nearly a thousand inmates and dozens of sheriff’s department staff members to learn of their concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmates reported that some jail guards bullied people with mental illness to “set an example” to all inmates of what happens to those who don’t follow orders. Others felt that the grievance system was meaningless, because they had to hand complaint slips to the very deputies they were reporting, and the deputies would often crumple up the paper slips and toss them in the trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordell said she was shocked to learn that inmates at the main jail were given just one clean pair of underwear a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s just more of the inhumane, thoughtless kinds of things that were going on in the jail until we brought transparency to it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmates are now supposed to get fresh underwear every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordell, who has backed Hirokawa, says Smith has done nothing to facilitate one of the most critical reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Smith has dragged her feet to bring independent civilian oversight and transparency to the sheriff's department,” Cordell said. “That was our commission's No. 1, unanimous recommendation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year the board of supervisors adopted a plan to appoint a nine-member civilian board to monitor the sheriff’s department. Smith has said she supports the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hirokawa has said he pushed to establish independent oversight of the department when he worked for Smith, and has promised to make it happen if elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Questions have also been raised about excessive overtime costs at the department. A recent county audit for the Finance and Government Operations Committee found that the sheriff's department exceeded its annual budget for overtime pay for most of the last decade. From 2013 to 2018, spending exceeded the annual overtime budget of $60 million by 250 percent. The majority of the money went to pay county jail staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County supervisor Joe Simitian, who chairs the finance committee, has called for an in-depth analysis of the cost overruns. The committee is also reviewing more than a thousand \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/jr/Pages/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposals\u003c/a> from multiple stakeholders to improve the jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667154\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 670px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10667154\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/scsheriff.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/scsheriff.png 670w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/scsheriff-400x131.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County sheriff's patrol car. \u003ccite>(Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Public Safety and Law Enforcement Role\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the beating death of inmate Michael Tyree shocked the public and exposed systemic problems in the Santa Clara jails, it’s unclear how much it will factor into how voters view Smith’s leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Zimring, a law professor at UC Berkeley who has \u003ca href=\"https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2017-02-21/book-brief-franklin-zimring-s-when-police-kill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written\u003c/a> extensively on police killings, says, voters tend to be more focused on the sheriff’s role in fighting crime than in ensuring jails are safe for inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sheriff also wears a badge,” said Zimring. “And in the mix of responsibilities, the administrative ones don't take high priority until something, usually calamitous, comes to our attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even then, the public may not blame the sheriff for her deputies’ abuse of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is generally not what the sheriff knew but what the sheriff didn't know, and should have known, that are important,” Zimring said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The key question for voters is whether the sheriff had implemented proper training and supervision to prevent deputies from abusing inmates, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Tyree’s sister, Shannon Tyree, remains critical of the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Laurie Smith believes that because the guards that murdered my brother have been brought to justice her job is done,” Tyree wrote in an Oct. 8 press release. “She only does what is politically expedient rather than implement the civilian oversight that is needed. After twenty years of failed leadership it is time for a change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-160x107.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"107\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Tyree was allegedly beaten to death on the sixth floor of Santa Clara's Main Jail.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In her bid for re-election, Smith has touted her record on fighting crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've always been a strong advocate for victims and protecting our communities,” she said at the candidates' forum last month. “We respond to all calls and provide investigative services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith cited a 34 percent decrease this year in residential burglaries in Cupertino, where the department provides policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union for the 800 correctional deputies who work in the jails has endorsed Smith and so have four of the five county supervisors. Only county supervisor Simitian has not endorsed a candidate, and a spokesman for his office said that that is his policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hirokawa has won the support of the smaller union for sheriff patrol deputies. He has also received endorsements from San Jose Mercury News and several other editorial boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hirokawa has been criticized for his response to a racist text scandal involving correctional deputies. After a supervisor was demoted over the 2015 incident, Hirokawa defended him in an arbitration interview, saying the supervisor wasn’t responsible for policing the deputies’ off-duty conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 10 am November 5, 2018\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For the first time in 20 years, there's a sheriff's race in Santa Clara County that's contested. Five-term incumbent Laurie Smith's department has come under scrutiny in the last few years for the mistreatment of jail inmates and overspending. But her challenger, John Hirokawa, is less well-known, and the question remains whether voters are swayed by the department's internal problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith, a Republican, was the first woman to be elected sheriff in California. In the June primary, Smith captured 43 percent of the vote — not enough to avoid a runoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Challenger John Hirokawa, a Democrat who was the undersheriff in Santa Clara County until he retired two years ago, won 32 percent of the vote. The remaining votes were split among three other candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Smith and Hirokawa favor putting more resources into addressing campus sexual assault and limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities. And they both support a plan to build a new county jail. But one issue dominating the campaign is the sheriff’s responsibility for how the jails are run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703413\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 940px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ConvictedDeputies.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11703413\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ConvictedDeputies.jpg\" alt=\"Three Santa Clara County Sheriff's deputies were convicted in 2017 of murdering mentally ill inmate Michael Tyree in his cell in 2015. From left: Rafael Rodriguez, Matthew Farris and Jereh Lubrin.\" width=\"940\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ConvictedDeputies.jpg 940w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ConvictedDeputies-160x93.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ConvictedDeputies-800x464.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ConvictedDeputies-240x139.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ConvictedDeputies-375x217.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/ConvictedDeputies-520x301.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three Santa Clara County Sheriff's deputies were convicted in 2017 of murdering mentally ill inmate Michael Tyree in his cell in 2015. From left: Rafael Rodriguez, Matthew Farris and Jereh Lubrin. \u003ccite>(Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Jail Inmate Death Exposed Inhumane Treatment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This election is the first since the 2015 jail \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11039666/two-mentally-ill-inmates-died-one-month-in-santa-clara\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">death\u003c/a> of inmate Michael Tyree. The 31-year-old suffered from mental illness and was being held at the jail for his own safety until he could be released into treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703402\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11703402 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MichaelTyree-160x169.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Michael Tyree several years before he was beaten to death in his cell by three former Santa Clara County sheriff's deputies.\" width=\"160\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MichaelTyree-160x169.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MichaelTyree-800x846.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MichaelTyree-960x1015.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MichaelTyree-240x254.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MichaelTyree-375x396.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MichaelTyree-520x550.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MichaelTyree.jpg 998w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Michael Tyree several years before he was beaten to death in his cell by three former Santa Clara County sheriff's deputies. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Tyree family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But one August night, three jail deputies entered his cell and beat him to death. All three were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11640126/jail-deputies-face-15-years-to-life-for-fatal-beating-of-mentally-ill-inmate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sentenced\u003c/a> in January to 15 years to life for murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyree’s killing exposed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10875665/santa-clara-county-jail-report-finds-widespread-complaints-of-inmate-abuse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">culture\u003c/a> of brutality toward people with mental illness in the county jails, along with poor supervision and lax discipline of correctional deputies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Sheriff’s Department Response\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Smith was praised for swiftly arresting and identifying the correctional officers who killed Tyree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an Oct. 8 candidates’ forum in Cupertino she also touted \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11285099/inmates-brutal-beating-death-spurs-scrutiny-and-reform-in-santa-clara-county-jails\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reforms\u003c/a> she has implemented since his death to prevent future violence against mentally ill inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have teams within the jail of multi-service deputies that are specially trained to deal with people with mental health,” Smith told the audience at the League of Women Voters’ forum. “We've increased the number of mental health professionals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hirokawa, who was Smith’s second in command when Tyree died, suggested the killing could have been prevented. At the event in Cupertino he said he had tried to increase the number of psychiatrists on staff before Tyree died, but the sheriff blocked him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703532\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 235px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/john-hirokawa-235x300.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11703532\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/john-hirokawa-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/john-hirokawa-235x300.jpg 235w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/john-hirokawa-235x300-160x204.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://johnhirokawa.com/meet-john-hirokawa/\">Courtesy of the Hirokawa Campaign\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Hirokawa Campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The county jails were down to one psychiatrist for over a thousand seriously mentally ill inmates,” Hirokawa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hirokowa says before he retired he had developed the plan to create the mental health teams that Smith is now touting. He said it took Tyree’s death and a federal lawsuit to force the sheriff’s hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the killing, the Prison Law Office sued the sheriff’s department in federal court for excessive solitary confinement and use of force on inmates. The lawsuit was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/opa/newsroom/Pages/jailclassactionlitigationsettlement.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">settled \u003c/a>just last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an Oct. 23 statement Executive Director Donald Specter wrote, “Although the negotiations were long and difficult, the outcome will result in dramatic improvements to the jails that will help reduce recidivism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specter praised Smith and other county officials for what he called their “complete transparency,” and said they were dedicated to addressing shortcomings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Sheriff has already made substantial efforts to remediate some of the deficiencies in the jails,” Specter wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703529\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11703529\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS21039_IMG_0957-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheriff Laurie Smith, a Republican, was the first woman to be elected sheriff in California. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Questions About Oversight\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But not everyone shares that view. Retired Superior Court judge LaDoris Cordell thinks Smith must leave before there can be lasting change in the sheriff’s department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordell chaired a blue ribbon commission established to investigate Tyree’s death and improve conditions for inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we discovered was a culture of resistance to change and a culture of retaliation,” said Cordell in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission made 101 \u003ca href=\"///Users/juliesmall/Documents/Immigrant%20Detention%20Expansion/Attachment-148198.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recommendations\u003c/a> to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, including one to replace the sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10927587\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10927587 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19109_IMG_8076-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Ribbon Commission chair LaDoris Cordell before the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19109_IMG_8076-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19109_IMG_8076-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19109_IMG_8076-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19109_IMG_8076-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19109_IMG_8076-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue Ribbon Commission chair LaDoris Cordell speaks before the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the commission surveyed nearly a thousand inmates and dozens of sheriff’s department staff members to learn of their concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmates reported that some jail guards bullied people with mental illness to “set an example” to all inmates of what happens to those who don’t follow orders. Others felt that the grievance system was meaningless, because they had to hand complaint slips to the very deputies they were reporting, and the deputies would often crumple up the paper slips and toss them in the trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordell said she was shocked to learn that inmates at the main jail were given just one clean pair of underwear a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s just more of the inhumane, thoughtless kinds of things that were going on in the jail until we brought transparency to it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmates are now supposed to get fresh underwear every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordell, who has backed Hirokawa, says Smith has done nothing to facilitate one of the most critical reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Smith has dragged her feet to bring independent civilian oversight and transparency to the sheriff's department,” Cordell said. “That was our commission's No. 1, unanimous recommendation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year the board of supervisors adopted a plan to appoint a nine-member civilian board to monitor the sheriff’s department. Smith has said she supports the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hirokawa has said he pushed to establish independent oversight of the department when he worked for Smith, and has promised to make it happen if elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Questions have also been raised about excessive overtime costs at the department. A recent county audit for the Finance and Government Operations Committee found that the sheriff's department exceeded its annual budget for overtime pay for most of the last decade. From 2013 to 2018, spending exceeded the annual overtime budget of $60 million by 250 percent. The majority of the money went to pay county jail staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County supervisor Joe Simitian, who chairs the finance committee, has called for an in-depth analysis of the cost overruns. The committee is also reviewing more than a thousand \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/jr/Pages/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposals\u003c/a> from multiple stakeholders to improve the jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667154\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 670px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10667154\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/scsheriff.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/scsheriff.png 670w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/scsheriff-400x131.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County sheriff's patrol car. \u003ccite>(Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Public Safety and Law Enforcement Role\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the beating death of inmate Michael Tyree shocked the public and exposed systemic problems in the Santa Clara jails, it’s unclear how much it will factor into how voters view Smith’s leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Zimring, a law professor at UC Berkeley who has \u003ca href=\"https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2017-02-21/book-brief-franklin-zimring-s-when-police-kill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written\u003c/a> extensively on police killings, says, voters tend to be more focused on the sheriff’s role in fighting crime than in ensuring jails are safe for inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sheriff also wears a badge,” said Zimring. “And in the mix of responsibilities, the administrative ones don't take high priority until something, usually calamitous, comes to our attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even then, the public may not blame the sheriff for her deputies’ abuse of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is generally not what the sheriff knew but what the sheriff didn't know, and should have known, that are important,” Zimring said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The key question for voters is whether the sheriff had implemented proper training and supervision to prevent deputies from abusing inmates, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Tyree’s sister, Shannon Tyree, remains critical of the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Laurie Smith believes that because the guards that murdered my brother have been brought to justice her job is done,” Tyree wrote in an Oct. 8 press release. “She only does what is politically expedient rather than implement the civilian oversight that is needed. After twenty years of failed leadership it is time for a change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-160x107.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"107\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Tyree was allegedly beaten to death on the sixth floor of Santa Clara's Main Jail.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In her bid for re-election, Smith has touted her record on fighting crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've always been a strong advocate for victims and protecting our communities,” she said at the candidates' forum last month. “We respond to all calls and provide investigative services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith cited a 34 percent decrease this year in residential burglaries in Cupertino, where the department provides policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union for the 800 correctional deputies who work in the jails has endorsed Smith and so have four of the five county supervisors. Only county supervisor Simitian has not endorsed a candidate, and a spokesman for his office said that that is his policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hirokawa has won the support of the smaller union for sheriff patrol deputies. He has also received endorsements from San Jose Mercury News and several other editorial boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hirokawa has been criticized for his response to a racist text scandal involving correctional deputies. After a supervisor was demoted over the 2015 incident, Hirokawa defended him in an arbitration interview, saying the supervisor wasn’t responsible for policing the deputies’ off-duty conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 10 am November 5, 2018\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Every time the phone rings in Rosa Vega's office, it means someone in Santa Clara County has died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are calling from agencies, mortuaries and the field with deaths to report,\" the chief investigator for the medical examiner said earlier this year during a tour of the county morgue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vega is the first point of contact for the office that handles about 5,000 calls a year -- or roughly half of all deaths in Santa Clara County. Of those, the medical examiner investigates an average of 1,500 cases per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11285099/inmates-brutal-beating-death-spurs-scrutiny-and-reform-in-santa-clara-county-jails\">Inmate's Brutal Beating Death Spurs Scrutiny and Reform in Santa Clara County Jails\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>With the establishment of an independent medical examiner's system in Santa Clara County last year, those investigations are now free from influence of the county sheriff. State \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legislation\u003c/a> currently in the Senate Appropriations Committee would require other large counties throughout California to establish similar systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vega and her team of civilian investigators make the initial assessment about which cases warrant a closer look, based on the circumstance of the death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Were they hospitalized for any recent injuries or trauma?” Vega asks callers. “Is there any acute drugs or alcohol associated with the death, and is there any suspicions of foul play, choking, abuse, suicide or homicide?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11669736\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11669736\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31077_IMG_6343-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31077_IMG_6343-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31077_IMG_6343-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31077_IMG_6343-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31077_IMG_6343-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31077_IMG_6343-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31077_IMG_6343-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31077_IMG_6343-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31077_IMG_6343-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31077_IMG_6343-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31077_IMG_6343-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosa Vega became chief investigator for the medical examiner in 2017, after county officials ended the sheriff's oversight of death investigations. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Depending on the answers, Vega may bring the body to the morgue for a medical examiner to investigate further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Questions Of Bias, Interference Drove Change\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until 2017, Sheriff Laurie Smith and her staff exercised administrative control over Vega and the medical examiners that investigated sudden, suspicious or violent deaths, including all deaths that occurred in county jails run by the sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every California county has an agency responsible for investigating those kinds of deaths, and most are under a sheriff. That's the sheriff-coroner's system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials began to question that arrangement after a medical examiner accused Smith of having impeded death investigations in certain cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Michelle Jorden testified at a budget hearing in 2016 that the sheriff had withheld evidence from physicians and tried to intimidate them into signing an agreement not to speak to the press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11669733\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11669733\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS29013_IMG_6260-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS29013_IMG_6260-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS29013_IMG_6260-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS29013_IMG_6260-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS29013_IMG_6260-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS29013_IMG_6260-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS29013_IMG_6260-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS29013_IMG_6260-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS29013_IMG_6260-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS29013_IMG_6260-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS29013_IMG_6260-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara Medical Examiner Michelle Jorden \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In certain cases the sheriff's office has impeded the examiners from receiving evidence necessary for the determination of cause and manner of death,” Jorden told supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also faulted the sheriff’s “poor management” of the office and a “general lack of support for the doctors and staff.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorden urged supervisors to end the sheriff’s control over death investigations \"to have full independent control of our office and operate the office to the highest, highest standards possible without the potential for perceived law enforcement influence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said she hadn't done anything improper, but in the wake of the 2015 beating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10912163/two-mentally-ill-inmates-died-in-one-month-what-can-we-learn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">death\u003c/a> of a mentally ill inmate, Jorden’s testimony took on more weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 26, 2015, inmate Michael Tyree collapsed in his cell at the county's Main Jail. The medical examiner determined he was beaten so hard that his spleen ruptured and he died. Three correctional sheriff's deputies were arrested and eventually convicted of second-degree murder. They were each \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11640126/jail-deputies-face-15-years-to-life-for-fatal-beating-of-mentally-ill-inmate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sentenced\u003c/a> to a 15-year-to-life prison term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county severed the sheriff's oversight of the medical examiners, at a cost of $846,000 a year to run a separate office, according to Deputy County Executive Martha Wapenski. The cost was offset somewhat by the reassignment of three sheriff administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paula Canny, an attorney who won a $3.6 million settlement for Tyree's family, supports the decision to spend more to ensure death investigations are free from pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a fundamental inherent conflict of interest -- especially as it relates to jail deaths” Canny said, “because who's in charge of a jail? The sheriff!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10912297\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10912297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Michael-Head-Shot-Pic-400x500.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Michael Tyree several years before his death.\" width=\"160\" height=\"200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Michael Tyree several years before his death. \u003ccite>(Courtesy the Tyree family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Sheriff Smith received some credit for swiftly arresting members of her staff, a blue-ribbon panel faulted her for lax oversight of correctional deputies that had allowed a culture of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10875665/santa-clara-county-jail-report-finds-widespread-complaints-of-inmate-abuse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abuse\u003c/a> to flourish in the jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chief Medical Examiner’s Gold Standard\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorden became chief medical examiner last year, administering the office, overseeing death investigations and conducting some of the autopsies herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because my patients are deceased, they can't tell me what happened to them,\" Jorden said. \"And that's where the importance of the job comes in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes an external examination of a body clearly provides the answers to how and why someone died, but in other cases an autopsy is required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorden said autopsy findings can and do change the picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are some cases that appear that the person had died from natural causes, but it turns out to be homicide,\" she said. \"And that's important. We're bringing closure to that deceased individual, their family. But we're also now allowing that case to undergo further investigation by law enforcement. So other people in the community aren't hurt.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Jorden’s leadership the medical examiner’s office has added four positions to replace sheriff administrators. She’s developing a residency program in forensic pathology, and training staff to handle a potential disaster that could result in mass casualties, something she said the sheriff refused to fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most importantly Jorden said the independence of the medical examiner's office means that Santa Clara County residents are getting the gold standard in death investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now here we have a civilian investigator conducting the investigation completely separate from any type of influence,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those findings are then given to the medical examiner, who will interpret them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's the gold standard because you have someone able to understand those findings and then take into consideration the circumstances surrounding the death,” Jorden said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Were they hospitalized for any recent injuries or trauma?” Vega asks callers. “Is there any acute drugs or alcohol associated with the death, and is there any suspicions of foul play, choking, abuse, suicide or homicide?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11669736\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11669736\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31077_IMG_6343-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31077_IMG_6343-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31077_IMG_6343-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31077_IMG_6343-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31077_IMG_6343-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31077_IMG_6343-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31077_IMG_6343-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31077_IMG_6343-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31077_IMG_6343-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31077_IMG_6343-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS31077_IMG_6343-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosa Vega became chief investigator for the medical examiner in 2017, after county officials ended the sheriff's oversight of death investigations. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Depending on the answers, Vega may bring the body to the morgue for a medical examiner to investigate further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Questions Of Bias, Interference Drove Change\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until 2017, Sheriff Laurie Smith and her staff exercised administrative control over Vega and the medical examiners that investigated sudden, suspicious or violent deaths, including all deaths that occurred in county jails run by the sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every California county has an agency responsible for investigating those kinds of deaths, and most are under a sheriff. That's the sheriff-coroner's system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials began to question that arrangement after a medical examiner accused Smith of having impeded death investigations in certain cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Michelle Jorden testified at a budget hearing in 2016 that the sheriff had withheld evidence from physicians and tried to intimidate them into signing an agreement not to speak to the press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11669733\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11669733\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS29013_IMG_6260-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS29013_IMG_6260-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS29013_IMG_6260-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS29013_IMG_6260-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS29013_IMG_6260-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS29013_IMG_6260-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS29013_IMG_6260-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS29013_IMG_6260-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS29013_IMG_6260-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS29013_IMG_6260-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/RS29013_IMG_6260-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara Medical Examiner Michelle Jorden \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In certain cases the sheriff's office has impeded the examiners from receiving evidence necessary for the determination of cause and manner of death,” Jorden told supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also faulted the sheriff’s “poor management” of the office and a “general lack of support for the doctors and staff.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorden urged supervisors to end the sheriff’s control over death investigations \"to have full independent control of our office and operate the office to the highest, highest standards possible without the potential for perceived law enforcement influence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said she hadn't done anything improper, but in the wake of the 2015 beating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10912163/two-mentally-ill-inmates-died-in-one-month-what-can-we-learn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">death\u003c/a> of a mentally ill inmate, Jorden’s testimony took on more weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 26, 2015, inmate Michael Tyree collapsed in his cell at the county's Main Jail. The medical examiner determined he was beaten so hard that his spleen ruptured and he died. Three correctional sheriff's deputies were arrested and eventually convicted of second-degree murder. They were each \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11640126/jail-deputies-face-15-years-to-life-for-fatal-beating-of-mentally-ill-inmate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sentenced\u003c/a> to a 15-year-to-life prison term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county severed the sheriff's oversight of the medical examiners, at a cost of $846,000 a year to run a separate office, according to Deputy County Executive Martha Wapenski. The cost was offset somewhat by the reassignment of three sheriff administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paula Canny, an attorney who won a $3.6 million settlement for Tyree's family, supports the decision to spend more to ensure death investigations are free from pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a fundamental inherent conflict of interest -- especially as it relates to jail deaths” Canny said, “because who's in charge of a jail? The sheriff!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10912297\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10912297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Michael-Head-Shot-Pic-400x500.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Michael Tyree several years before his death.\" width=\"160\" height=\"200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Michael Tyree several years before his death. \u003ccite>(Courtesy the Tyree family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Sheriff Smith received some credit for swiftly arresting members of her staff, a blue-ribbon panel faulted her for lax oversight of correctional deputies that had allowed a culture of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10875665/santa-clara-county-jail-report-finds-widespread-complaints-of-inmate-abuse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abuse\u003c/a> to flourish in the jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chief Medical Examiner’s Gold Standard\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorden became chief medical examiner last year, administering the office, overseeing death investigations and conducting some of the autopsies herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because my patients are deceased, they can't tell me what happened to them,\" Jorden said. \"And that's where the importance of the job comes in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes an external examination of a body clearly provides the answers to how and why someone died, but in other cases an autopsy is required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorden said autopsy findings can and do change the picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are some cases that appear that the person had died from natural causes, but it turns out to be homicide,\" she said. \"And that's important. We're bringing closure to that deceased individual, their family. But we're also now allowing that case to undergo further investigation by law enforcement. So other people in the community aren't hurt.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Jorden’s leadership the medical examiner’s office has added four positions to replace sheriff administrators. She’s developing a residency program in forensic pathology, and training staff to handle a potential disaster that could result in mass casualties, something she said the sheriff refused to fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most importantly Jorden said the independence of the medical examiner's office means that Santa Clara County residents are getting the gold standard in death investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now here we have a civilian investigator conducting the investigation completely separate from any type of influence,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those findings are then given to the medical examiner, who will interpret them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's the gold standard because you have someone able to understand those findings and then take into consideration the circumstances surrounding the death,” Jorden said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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After he violated probation for a minor drug charge, a judge ordered him detained until he could be placed into psychiatric treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"kDKUmvqbTpQ4fb8d57nkTCN1RAebSZSX\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Aug. 27, 2015, jail staff discovered Tyree dead in his cell, his naked body smeared with vomit and feces. The medical examiner found that he died from massive blunt-force trauma that caused his liver and spleen to rupture, injuries he could not have inflicted on himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Tyree’s sister, Shannon Tyree, wasn’t able to make it to the San Jose courtroom Friday because her flight was canceled, but prosecutor Matt Braker read her letter in court. In it, she said she felt she had failed to help her younger cope with mental illness. She wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I have a life sentence that started at 11 AM, August 27, 2015 when the coroner called to tell me Michael had died. Every day since then, I have thought of how forsaken he must have felt that night, how utterly alone, how terrified and I can’t forgive myself. I will never get a chance to make a different choice for Michael, to tell him I’m so sorry that I didn’t understand that he was so afraid and I’ll never have another chance to tell him how much I love him. I’m accountable for failing Michael. These three men walked into his cell and beat him to death. And they are accountable for that.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Tyree’s girlfriend, who is also the mother of his child, would not give her name and chose not to speak at the hearing, but looked relieved that the judge gave the maximum sentence to the former jail guards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deputies remained stoic, facing toward the judge until immediately after the proceeding, when family members, many of them weeping, called out to them, waving and blowing kisses. Then each turned and waved and called back. Farris appeared to be choking back tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Friday’s hearing, Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen spoke to reporters from the courthouse steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The trust in the authority that the jail guards had in this case was not used to protect Michael Tyree. Instead, it was used to beat and murder him,” Rosen said. “And for that they've been justly sentenced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyree’s murder exposed problems with how some county jails in California have handled a growing number of offenders with mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Clara County, his death led to a series of investigations into the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/29/two-mentally-ill-inmates-died-in-one-month-what-can-we-learn/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">treatment \u003c/a>of inmates and spurred \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/25/inmates-brutal-beating-death-spurs-scrutiny-and-reform-in-santa-clara-county-jails/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reforms\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in February 2016, new deputies were required to complete a weeklong training in crisis intervention. 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