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"content": "\u003cp>On June 20, 2014, a bail bond agent named Dino Garcia received a phone call from an inmate in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/sheriff/pages/mainjail-visiting.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Clara County Main Jail\u003c/a>. The inmate, known as Riley in \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3533679-Garcia1.html\" target=\"_blank\">court documents\u003c/a>, wasn’t calling to bail himself out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was calling about bail for another inmate who had just arrived at the jail. Riley told Garcia the new inmate was trustworthy and willing to use his homes or vehicles as collateral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia spoke to the man and then got back on the line with Riley, urging him to find more clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Get me some good ones, dude, some Asians, some fucking Hindus, some good domestic violence ones,” said Garcia, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3533679-Garcia1.html#document/p12\" target=\"_blank\">transcript\u003c/a> of the call.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Listen to KQED's Bail Investigation Series\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/04/LewisBailBondspt1.mp3\" title=\"Bail Bonds Schemes Exposed: Part One\" program=\"KQED News\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror.jpg\"]\u003cbr>\n[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/04/BailBondsPart2FixedwithLede.mp3\" title=\"Bail Bonds Schemes Exposed: Part Two\" program=\"KQED News\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut.jpg\"]\u003cbr>\n[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/04/LewisBailBondspt3.mp3\" title=\"Bail Bonds Schemes Exposed: Part Three\" program=\"KQED News\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17524_Judge-addresses-holloway-qut.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Garcia wasn’t alone. For years, bail bond agents had been compensating inmates to drum up business in the county’s jails, according to an investigation by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors say the illegal activity, known as “bail capping,” gave agents an unfair competitive advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also put inmates and the public at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has learned that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/sheriff/Pages/overview.aspx\">Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department \u003c/a>knew that bail capping was occurring in its jails, but failed to stop it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through interviews and court records, KQED has found that at least 30 inmates in Santa Clara County jails were involved in bail-capping schemes. Those recruiters controlled access to the phones, threatened other inmates or promised cheap bail to pressure inmates to sign contracts with certain bail agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s department’s lack of oversight -- and lax policies -- made it easier for agents and inmates to continue working together, in violation of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Gatekeepers of bail'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime inmates in the Santa Clara County Main Jail acted as the “gatekeepers of bail,” according to Alison Filo, the deputy district attorney tasked with prosecuting dozens of bail agents for illegal business practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Culp told KQED he started working for agents from inside the main jail about three months after he was arrested for armed robbery in 2013. He said he worked as a recruiter until he was transferred to \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Facilities_Locator/PVSP.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pleasant Valley State Prison\u003c/a> in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Culp said new inmates had “no choice” but to use the bail bond agents he called.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to make a phone call, inmates needed a special code. Culp said in the unit where he was serving time, new inmates weren’t given instructions on how to use the phone codes. He would “help” them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11395507\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11395507\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Culp-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Culp says he worked as a recruiter for bail agents for three years while in Santa Clara County Main Jail on armed robbery charges. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Culp-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Culp-160x200.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Culp-1020x1276.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Culp-1180x1476.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Culp-960x1201.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Culp-240x300.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Culp-375x469.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Culp-520x650.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Culp.jpg 1313w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Culp says he worked as a recruiter for bail agents for three years while in Santa Clara County Main Jail on armed robbery charges. \u003ccite>(From Scott Culp's case file)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I take their code,” explained Culp. “I use their code, so they’re not able to call their family to have their family bail them out. They have to go through me and through these bail agencies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under state law, only defendants, their family members or their attorneys can contact a bail agent to arrange bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors say that bail capping creates a predatory environment in the jail. First-time inmates are especially vulnerable, because often they’re afraid and have little information. They don’t know, for example, that they may be \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/pretrial/Pages/Office-of-Pretrial-Services.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">eligible to get out of jail\u003c/a> without paying bail or to have their bail reduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their instant reaction is what they see on television or what they read in the newspapers,” Filo said, “Which is, ‘I've got to get bail,’ and that sort of desperation is preyed upon by the inmates who are in custody seeking to get some benefit for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmate-recruiters also angled to maintain that benefit by limiting their competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Garcia complained to an inmate named Alberto Solorio about another inmate who was “pushing people to Luna,” a rival bail agency, Solorio assured him that he would take care of the problem, according to an\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3533679-Garcia1.html\" target=\"_blank\"> investigator’s summary\u003c/a> of a phone call between the two men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia told Solorio to get the other inmate “rolled out (kicked out of the dorm).” Solorio responded: “That’s not even a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Visitation irregularities\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Culp told KQED that guards were also involved in the illegal activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said guards allowed some bail agents to visit him multiple times a week, even though he was not eligible for bail. During those visits, Culp said, agents would train him to recruit new clients, explaining what kinds of questions to ask inmates to find out their suitability for bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED submitted a public records request for the log of Culp’s visitors. In its response, the sheriff’s department said Culp had no visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia, now a former bail agent, told KQED that he saw correctional officers giving other agents special treatment, allowing them access to the jail outside of visiting hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bail agents are supposed to follow the same rules as other jail visitors, according to the sheriff's department, including writing down the names of the inmates they are visiting in a log book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at least one bail agent, Fernando Casillas of Aladdin Bail Bonds, was permitted to bypass visiting procedures. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3533677-Casillas1.html\" target=\"_blank\">district attorney’s investigation\u003c/a>, when Casillas came into the jail to interview an inmate, he wrote “inmate” on the log book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11395508\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11395508\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20958950626_74ce1cbd1f_o-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"Fernando Casillas was one of 31 bail agents arrested by law enforcement on charges of illegal business practices.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20958950626_74ce1cbd1f_o.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20958950626_74ce1cbd1f_o-160x200.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20958950626_74ce1cbd1f_o-240x300.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20958950626_74ce1cbd1f_o-375x469.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20958950626_74ce1cbd1f_o-520x650.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fernando Casillas was one of 31 bail agents arrested by law enforcement on charges of illegal business practices. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/ca_dept_insurance/20958950626/in/album-72157657509991139/\">California Department of Insurance\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The inmate who Casillas interviewed was named Lakhbir Singh. Singh told investigators that a jail staff member referred him to Casillas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Singh said he was then interviewed by someone inside the jail from Aladdin Bail Bonds soon after speaking with this person working at the jail,” the investigator's report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh said that neither he nor his wife called Casillas or \u003ca href=\"https://www.aladdinbailbonds.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Aladdin Bail Bonds\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators were unable to identify the jail staff member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s department did not respond to questions about its visitation procedures or whether it had investigated jail staff in connection with bail capping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s office said it did not have evidence to file charges against any guards or jail administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amy Le, president of the \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Santa Clara County Correctional Peace Officers Association, said she is not aware of any officer involvement in bail capping schemes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have over 750 employees here,” she said. “We are all professional people. We do what is right even when no one is watching.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Le said to her knowledge none of the employees she represents have been investigated or disciplined for bail-related misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If officers are involved in such misconduct, Le said, “They [the officers] don’t need to wear a uniform. They don’t need to work here.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11395513\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11395513 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24880_20798065700_f74eefc32b_o-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='Aladdin Bail Bonds was one of seven companies whose agents were arrested for illegal business practices including \"bail capping.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24880_20798065700_f74eefc32b_o-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24880_20798065700_f74eefc32b_o-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24880_20798065700_f74eefc32b_o-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24880_20798065700_f74eefc32b_o-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24880_20798065700_f74eefc32b_o-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24880_20798065700_f74eefc32b_o-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24880_20798065700_f74eefc32b_o-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24880_20798065700_f74eefc32b_o-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24880_20798065700_f74eefc32b_o-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aladdin Bail Bonds was one of seven companies whose agents were arrested for alleged illegal business practices, including bail capping. \u003ccite>(Jayne Lucas/\u003ca href=\"%E2%80%9Chhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/ca_dept_insurance/20798065700/in/album-72157657509991139/%22\">California Department of Insurance\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s department has been under \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\">scrutiny\u003c/a> since the in-custody death of Michael Tyree on Aug. 26, 2015. Three guards are on \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/04/04/michael-tyree/\" target=\"_blank\">trial\u003c/a> for allegedly beating the mentally ill inmate to death. The guards -- Matthew Farris, Rafael Rodriguez and Jereh Lubrin -- have pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/scc/pages/brc.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">commission\u003c/a> formed to assess operations in Santa Clara County’s jails in the wake of Tyree’s death did not address illegal activity between bail agents and inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/sanfrancisco\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Bureau of Investigation\u003c/a> would not comment on whether it is investigating the sheriff’s department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>$100 deposits\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3533679-Garcia1.html#document/p16\" target=\"_blank\">Court records\u003c/a> show that jail administrators knew since at least 2012 that illegal bail activity was going on in the jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 6, 2012, Kevin Heilman, who was then the captain of the main jail, received an email from Sgt. Eric Liddle. A bail agent had complained to Liddle that inmates in the Main Jail were working as paid recruiters for another bail firm. Liddle recommended an investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another jail sergeant wrote to Heilman in a follow-up report dated July 31, 2012, that guards had searched the cell of two inmates suspected of being involved in the scheme. They found a list of inmate ID numbers, bail bond agent phone numbers and a pay/owe sheet that showed a series of $100 deposits into an account. The two inmates were moved to other areas of the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court documents do not indicate whether the sheriff’s department took any action against bail agents, including restricting their access to inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year later, Lt. April McHugh at the Main Jail \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3533679-Garcia1.html#document/p34\" target=\"_blank\">emailed \u003c/a>sheriff’s department administrators about a call she received from a bail agent named Robert Silva of Amigo Bail Bonds, alleging that bail agents and inmates were still working together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11395493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11395493\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/File_008-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"When guards searched the cell of two inmate suspected of involvement in bail capping they found a list of inmate ID numbers, bail bond agent phone numbers and a pay/owe sheet that showed a series of $100 deposits into an account.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/File_008-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/File_008-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/File_008-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/File_008-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/File_008-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/File_008-960x720.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/File_008-240x180.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/File_008-375x281.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/File_008-520x390.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When guards searched the cell of two inmate suspected of involvement in bail capping, they found a list of inmate ID numbers, bail bond agent phone numbers and a pay/owe sheet that showed a series of $100 deposits into an account.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The inmates allegedly question the new inmates as to whether they have bail and when they say they do they intimidate them to go to the other company,” McHugh wrote. “The other company sends commissary packages online anonymously to the inmate who refers the new inmate to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sounds like this inquiry has gone nowhere, but Mr. Silva says he has one or two ‘victims’ who are very afraid to talk, because the bail company has all of their information. I am not sure what he hopes to gain by contacting Main Jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department declined to answer questions about whether it investigated Silva’s complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, the district attorney’s office launched its own bail-capping investigation and found widespread illegal activity between bail agents and jail inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jail accounting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jail practices made it easy for bail agents to pay recruiters with deposits into their inmate commissary accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Culp, the former Santa Clara County inmate, claims agents paid him $15,000 in one year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED couldn’t confirm the payments to Culp. Prosecutors couldn’t either. The jail did not track deposits to commissary accounts, allowing agents to give inmates money without the jail having any record of the source of those funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would think that you would have to show some identification or something in order to provide an inmate with commissary credit or phone credit or actual cash,” Filo said. “And you don't. So they were able to freely give those sorts of benefits with no accountability or no paper trail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmates leaving the Main Jail would often pass the “business” on to others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff's department did not answer questions about whether it has taken measures to track commissary account deposits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Three-way calling\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bail agents also compensated inmates with free phone calls. Such calls can cost \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/exploiting-inmates/Content?oid=4185319\" target=\"_blank\">$3 just to establish a connection\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County Main Jail records inmates’ phone calls, and jail staff are supposed to monitor them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They do random monitoring,” said Le, the correctional officers’ association president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But court records show bail agents regularly used three-way calling to allow their inmate-recruiters to contact friends and family. An inmate would call an agent, who would then forward the call to a phone number that inmate provided. Jail phone records would show only that the inmate called the agent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By hiding the ultimate targets of their calls, inmates could use the free calls to intimidate witnesses or run other criminal activities from behind bars, putting the public at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11395222\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11395222\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"For years bail bonds agents used inmates inside Santa Clara County Main Jail to drum up new business.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For years bail bonds agents used inmates inside the Santa Clara County Main Jail to drum up new business. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If the bail agent then uses his or her cellphone or office phone and makes a three-way call to, for instance, that inmate’s domestic violence victim, who is protected by a restraining order, we would have no way to prove that phone call was made,” prosecutor Filo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Le said if inmates are caught making three-way calls, they can have their calling privileges suspended. But, she added, the volume of jailhouse calls makes monitoring them difficult. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s department declined to answer questions about whether jail staff monitored those calls or whether it has taken steps to block three-way calling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia said he never paid inmates with cash. But he acknowledged giving them free phone calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court records show that during a five-month period in 2014, Garcia received 934 calls from the jail to his personal cellphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The bust\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators in the district attorney’s office started combing through thousands of recorded phone calls between bail agents and inmates in September 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late August 2015, Garcia peered through the blinds in his living room. He found his house surrounded by law enforcement officers with their guns drawn. They were pointing at him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘Holy smokes!’ ” Garcia said. “I thought I was dreaming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police arrested Garcia and booked him into the Santa Clara County Main Jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's funny, because I couldn't get through to anyone,” he said. “Everybody was in jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with Garcia, law enforcement officers arrested 30 other bail bond agents. It was the \u003ca href=\"http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0400-news/0100-press-releases/2015/release083-15.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">largest bust\u003c/a> of its kind in state history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutor Filo said when the district attorney’s office first began looking into bail-capping allegations, it didn’t expect to uncover evidence against so many bail agents. She said at some point investigators had to limit the scope of their work to get through the evidence they already had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia worked for a small firm, but many of those agents were employed by some of the nation’s biggest bail providers, including Aladdin, All-Pro Bail Bonds and Bail Hotline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia will serve three months in jail for his involvement in bail capping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11395509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11395509\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/24881_transform-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"The Santa Clara County District Attorney's office busted 31 bail bond agents in 2015 for illegal business practices.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/24881_transform-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/24881_transform-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/24881_transform-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/24881_transform.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/24881_transform-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/24881_transform-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/24881_transform-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/24881_transform-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/24881_transform-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office busted 31 bail bond agents in 2015 for illegal business practices. \u003ccite>(Jayne Lucas/\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/ca_dept_insurance/20958801736/in/album-72157657509991139/\">California Department of Insurance\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most of the agents who were arrested have accepted plea deals, with sentences ranging from community service to four months in jail. Seven of the cases have yet to be adjudicated. One agent, Garcia’s boss, went to trial and was found not guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No charges were filed against any bail firms or inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Clayton, director of the\u003ca href=\"http://www.americanbailcoalition.org/\" target=\"_blank\"> American Bail Coalition\u003c/a>, insisted the agents who were arrested do not represent the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t agree with people doing the alleged conduct, and if it is happening it does need to be stopped,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clayton said bail agents who don’t follow the rules should have their licenses revoked, but doesn’t think they should face felony charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Charity bonds'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlawful bail practices aren’t unique to Santa Clara County. In the past few years, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-former-lapd-jailer-accused-taking-bribes-20160506-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanbag.ca.gov/news/publications/2012-13GrandJuryFinalReportonlineposting.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">San Bernardino\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.orangecounty-bailbonds.com/dui-blog/394-inmate-capping-the-dirty-little-secret-inside-our-jails\" target=\"_blank\">Orange\u003c/a> counties have reported bail-capping cases. The\u003ca href=\"http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0400-news/multimedia/0030VideoHearings/bailhearingvideo.cfm\" target=\"_blank\"> California Department of Insurance\u003c/a>, which regulates the bail industry, estimated that since 2012, complaints about illegal activity by bail agents have tripled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these have come from other bail agents. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/da/Pages/DA-office-site-home-page.aspx\">Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office\u003c/a> launched its 2014 investigation after receiving complaints from agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The surge in complaints may be a result of increased competition within the industry, which generates $2 billion in revenue nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to testimony from Sylvia Herrera, a former Aladdin employee and a witness in the bail-capping cases, agents had to bring in $50,000 and write 20-30 bonds a month. Herrera said the quota was nearly impossible to meet without bending the rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She described several occasions when she posted bonds for defendants for as little as $10 down. She said she would set up a payment plan for a defendant, knowing the person would probably never pay it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera said agents don’t make a commission on these “charity bonds,” but the deals boost their monthly numbers, and the bail agency is satisfied because the competition for those bonds is eliminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aladdin didn’t respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Payment plans are common in the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2016/05/03/how-bail-works/\" target=\"_blank\">bail industry\u003c/a>. But they can put the public at risk. A defendant facing felony charges for a violent crime can get out of jail while paying a fraction of the standard bail amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3533676-Alvarez.html#document/p7\" target=\"_blank\">Court records\u003c/a> show that a Santa Clara County defendant charged with a felony -- battery with serious bodily injury -- bargained with a bail agent to get out of jail for a $150 down payment. A judge had set his bail at $25,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final terms of this deal, like all bail bond deals, aren’t known to the public, the courts or regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clayton, the bail industry spokesman, acknowledged that payment plans are a problem. Other states have a set “floor” on how much money a defendant has to put up, but California does not. He said in an effort to get business, bail agents here offer defendants smaller and smaller down payments as part of a “race to the bottom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Balloon payments\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The terms of these payment plans can also hurt defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some payment plans are structured like payday loans, with debt payments ballooning over time, according to Cherise Burdeen of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pretrial.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Pretrial Justice Institute\u003c/a>, an organization working to end for-profit bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People will be paying long after they've satisfied whatever conditions they agreed to for the court,” Burdeen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who sign bail contracts with payment plans can lose their cars or even their homes. Often it’s not the defendant who pays, but a family member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.insurance.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California Department of Insurance\u003c/a> said it does not regulate contracts between agents and individuals. Teresa Campbell, assistant chief counsel for the department, said it often receives calls from people who say that a bail agent has taken possession of a car used for collateral, even though the defendant has not missed a court date. Campbell said the department can’t make the agent return the car, but it can apply pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In those situations, we will try and resolve it by getting that consumer, making that consumer whole,” she said. “They just want that car back, so we can work something out where they pay a fine or they have a restriction, and then they give the car back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campbell said the department doesn’t have the resources or the authority to adequately police bail agents. But she said that many bail agents are trying to keep their industry clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bail agents will often make complaints about other bail agents, if they know that they're going into jails or things like that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Alternative to Bail\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California state lawmakers are considering moving the state away from a money-based bail system to what is called \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/12/contra-costa-pretrial-program-offers-relief-for-those-who-cant-afford-bail/\" target=\"_blank\">“risk-based” pretrial release\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB42\" target=\"_blank\">legislation\u003c/a> sponsored by \u003ca href=\"http://www.robbonta.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Assemblyman Rob Bonta\u003c/a> (D-Alameda) and \u003ca href=\"http://sd18.senate.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Robert Hertzberg\u003c/a> (D-Van Nuys), defendants would be assessed for release based on a range of risk factors, including employment, criminal history and community ties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Individuals who are considered lower risk will be released on their own recognizance, without having to pay bail. Higher-risk defendants could be released if they comply with certain conditions, such as ankle monitoring or check-ins with a pretrial services officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defendants charged with violent crimes such as murder would not qualify for the pretrial release program. Judges would retain their authority to set bail in cases they deem appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s proponents say that it would reduce the number of people in jail awaiting trial and create a more equitable system. But bail agents say the legislation threatens public safety and undermines defendants’ civil liberties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s basically putting people on parole before they’ve been accused of a crime,” said Corrin Rankin of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbaa.com/\" target=\"_blank\">California Bail Agents Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rankin said money bail works because bail agents are neutral third parties. They don’t have any stake in what the defendant did or didn’t do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s beside the point,\" Rankin said. \"Our job is to make sure people go to court and we do it well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County is also considering moving away from money bail. It’s studying the feasibility of a nonprofit alternative to commercial bail bonds and looking at expanding pretrial supervision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our objective is making Santa Clara County safe and making sure that our justice system is truly just,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/d2/Pages/d2-supervisor-cindy-chavez.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">county Supervisor Cindy Chavez\u003c/a> said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was updated to include comments from Amy Le, president of the Santa Clara County Correctional Peace Officers Association. An earlier version of this post included comments from correctional officer Sean Allen.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This project was completed as part of a John Jay College of Criminal Justice reporting fellowship.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors say the illegal activity, known as “bail capping,” gave agents an unfair competitive advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also put inmates and the public at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has learned that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/sheriff/Pages/overview.aspx\">Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department \u003c/a>knew that bail capping was occurring in its jails, but failed to stop it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through interviews and court records, KQED has found that at least 30 inmates in Santa Clara County jails were involved in bail-capping schemes. Those recruiters controlled access to the phones, threatened other inmates or promised cheap bail to pressure inmates to sign contracts with certain bail agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s department’s lack of oversight -- and lax policies -- made it easier for agents and inmates to continue working together, in violation of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Gatekeepers of bail'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime inmates in the Santa Clara County Main Jail acted as the “gatekeepers of bail,” according to Alison Filo, the deputy district attorney tasked with prosecuting dozens of bail agents for illegal business practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Culp told KQED he started working for agents from inside the main jail about three months after he was arrested for armed robbery in 2013. He said he worked as a recruiter until he was transferred to \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Facilities_Locator/PVSP.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pleasant Valley State Prison\u003c/a> in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Culp said new inmates had “no choice” but to use the bail bond agents he called.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to make a phone call, inmates needed a special code. Culp said in the unit where he was serving time, new inmates weren’t given instructions on how to use the phone codes. He would “help” them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11395507\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11395507\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Culp-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Culp says he worked as a recruiter for bail agents for three years while in Santa Clara County Main Jail on armed robbery charges. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Culp-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Culp-160x200.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Culp-1020x1276.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Culp-1180x1476.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Culp-960x1201.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Culp-240x300.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Culp-375x469.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Culp-520x650.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/Culp.jpg 1313w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Culp says he worked as a recruiter for bail agents for three years while in Santa Clara County Main Jail on armed robbery charges. \u003ccite>(From Scott Culp's case file)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I take their code,” explained Culp. “I use their code, so they’re not able to call their family to have their family bail them out. They have to go through me and through these bail agencies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under state law, only defendants, their family members or their attorneys can contact a bail agent to arrange bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors say that bail capping creates a predatory environment in the jail. First-time inmates are especially vulnerable, because often they’re afraid and have little information. They don’t know, for example, that they may be \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/pretrial/Pages/Office-of-Pretrial-Services.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">eligible to get out of jail\u003c/a> without paying bail or to have their bail reduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their instant reaction is what they see on television or what they read in the newspapers,” Filo said, “Which is, ‘I've got to get bail,’ and that sort of desperation is preyed upon by the inmates who are in custody seeking to get some benefit for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmate-recruiters also angled to maintain that benefit by limiting their competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Garcia complained to an inmate named Alberto Solorio about another inmate who was “pushing people to Luna,” a rival bail agency, Solorio assured him that he would take care of the problem, according to an\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3533679-Garcia1.html\" target=\"_blank\"> investigator’s summary\u003c/a> of a phone call between the two men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia told Solorio to get the other inmate “rolled out (kicked out of the dorm).” Solorio responded: “That’s not even a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Visitation irregularities\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Culp told KQED that guards were also involved in the illegal activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said guards allowed some bail agents to visit him multiple times a week, even though he was not eligible for bail. During those visits, Culp said, agents would train him to recruit new clients, explaining what kinds of questions to ask inmates to find out their suitability for bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED submitted a public records request for the log of Culp’s visitors. In its response, the sheriff’s department said Culp had no visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia, now a former bail agent, told KQED that he saw correctional officers giving other agents special treatment, allowing them access to the jail outside of visiting hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bail agents are supposed to follow the same rules as other jail visitors, according to the sheriff's department, including writing down the names of the inmates they are visiting in a log book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at least one bail agent, Fernando Casillas of Aladdin Bail Bonds, was permitted to bypass visiting procedures. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3533677-Casillas1.html\" target=\"_blank\">district attorney’s investigation\u003c/a>, when Casillas came into the jail to interview an inmate, he wrote “inmate” on the log book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11395508\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11395508\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20958950626_74ce1cbd1f_o-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"Fernando Casillas was one of 31 bail agents arrested by law enforcement on charges of illegal business practices.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20958950626_74ce1cbd1f_o.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20958950626_74ce1cbd1f_o-160x200.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20958950626_74ce1cbd1f_o-240x300.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20958950626_74ce1cbd1f_o-375x469.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/20958950626_74ce1cbd1f_o-520x650.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fernando Casillas was one of 31 bail agents arrested by law enforcement on charges of illegal business practices. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/ca_dept_insurance/20958950626/in/album-72157657509991139/\">California Department of Insurance\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The inmate who Casillas interviewed was named Lakhbir Singh. Singh told investigators that a jail staff member referred him to Casillas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Singh said he was then interviewed by someone inside the jail from Aladdin Bail Bonds soon after speaking with this person working at the jail,” the investigator's report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh said that neither he nor his wife called Casillas or \u003ca href=\"https://www.aladdinbailbonds.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Aladdin Bail Bonds\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators were unable to identify the jail staff member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s department did not respond to questions about its visitation procedures or whether it had investigated jail staff in connection with bail capping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s office said it did not have evidence to file charges against any guards or jail administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amy Le, president of the \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Santa Clara County Correctional Peace Officers Association, said she is not aware of any officer involvement in bail capping schemes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have over 750 employees here,” she said. “We are all professional people. We do what is right even when no one is watching.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Le said to her knowledge none of the employees she represents have been investigated or disciplined for bail-related misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If officers are involved in such misconduct, Le said, “They [the officers] don’t need to wear a uniform. They don’t need to work here.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11395513\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11395513 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24880_20798065700_f74eefc32b_o-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='Aladdin Bail Bonds was one of seven companies whose agents were arrested for illegal business practices including \"bail capping.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24880_20798065700_f74eefc32b_o-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24880_20798065700_f74eefc32b_o-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24880_20798065700_f74eefc32b_o-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24880_20798065700_f74eefc32b_o-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24880_20798065700_f74eefc32b_o-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24880_20798065700_f74eefc32b_o-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24880_20798065700_f74eefc32b_o-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24880_20798065700_f74eefc32b_o-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS24880_20798065700_f74eefc32b_o-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aladdin Bail Bonds was one of seven companies whose agents were arrested for alleged illegal business practices, including bail capping. \u003ccite>(Jayne Lucas/\u003ca href=\"%E2%80%9Chhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/ca_dept_insurance/20798065700/in/album-72157657509991139/%22\">California Department of Insurance\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s department has been under \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\">scrutiny\u003c/a> since the in-custody death of Michael Tyree on Aug. 26, 2015. Three guards are on \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/04/04/michael-tyree/\" target=\"_blank\">trial\u003c/a> for allegedly beating the mentally ill inmate to death. The guards -- Matthew Farris, Rafael Rodriguez and Jereh Lubrin -- have pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/scc/pages/brc.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">commission\u003c/a> formed to assess operations in Santa Clara County’s jails in the wake of Tyree’s death did not address illegal activity between bail agents and inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/sanfrancisco\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Bureau of Investigation\u003c/a> would not comment on whether it is investigating the sheriff’s department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>$100 deposits\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3533679-Garcia1.html#document/p16\" target=\"_blank\">Court records\u003c/a> show that jail administrators knew since at least 2012 that illegal bail activity was going on in the jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 6, 2012, Kevin Heilman, who was then the captain of the main jail, received an email from Sgt. Eric Liddle. A bail agent had complained to Liddle that inmates in the Main Jail were working as paid recruiters for another bail firm. Liddle recommended an investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another jail sergeant wrote to Heilman in a follow-up report dated July 31, 2012, that guards had searched the cell of two inmates suspected of being involved in the scheme. They found a list of inmate ID numbers, bail bond agent phone numbers and a pay/owe sheet that showed a series of $100 deposits into an account. The two inmates were moved to other areas of the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court documents do not indicate whether the sheriff’s department took any action against bail agents, including restricting their access to inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year later, Lt. April McHugh at the Main Jail \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3533679-Garcia1.html#document/p34\" target=\"_blank\">emailed \u003c/a>sheriff’s department administrators about a call she received from a bail agent named Robert Silva of Amigo Bail Bonds, alleging that bail agents and inmates were still working together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11395493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11395493\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/File_008-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"When guards searched the cell of two inmate suspected of involvement in bail capping they found a list of inmate ID numbers, bail bond agent phone numbers and a pay/owe sheet that showed a series of $100 deposits into an account.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/File_008-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/File_008-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/File_008-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/File_008-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/File_008-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/File_008-960x720.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/File_008-240x180.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/File_008-375x281.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/File_008-520x390.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When guards searched the cell of two inmate suspected of involvement in bail capping, they found a list of inmate ID numbers, bail bond agent phone numbers and a pay/owe sheet that showed a series of $100 deposits into an account.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The inmates allegedly question the new inmates as to whether they have bail and when they say they do they intimidate them to go to the other company,” McHugh wrote. “The other company sends commissary packages online anonymously to the inmate who refers the new inmate to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sounds like this inquiry has gone nowhere, but Mr. Silva says he has one or two ‘victims’ who are very afraid to talk, because the bail company has all of their information. I am not sure what he hopes to gain by contacting Main Jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department declined to answer questions about whether it investigated Silva’s complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, the district attorney’s office launched its own bail-capping investigation and found widespread illegal activity between bail agents and jail inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jail accounting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jail practices made it easy for bail agents to pay recruiters with deposits into their inmate commissary accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Culp, the former Santa Clara County inmate, claims agents paid him $15,000 in one year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED couldn’t confirm the payments to Culp. Prosecutors couldn’t either. The jail did not track deposits to commissary accounts, allowing agents to give inmates money without the jail having any record of the source of those funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would think that you would have to show some identification or something in order to provide an inmate with commissary credit or phone credit or actual cash,” Filo said. “And you don't. So they were able to freely give those sorts of benefits with no accountability or no paper trail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inmates leaving the Main Jail would often pass the “business” on to others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff's department did not answer questions about whether it has taken measures to track commissary account deposits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Three-way calling\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bail agents also compensated inmates with free phone calls. Such calls can cost \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/exploiting-inmates/Content?oid=4185319\" target=\"_blank\">$3 just to establish a connection\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County Main Jail records inmates’ phone calls, and jail staff are supposed to monitor them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They do random monitoring,” said Le, the correctional officers’ association president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But court records show bail agents regularly used three-way calling to allow their inmate-recruiters to contact friends and family. An inmate would call an agent, who would then forward the call to a phone number that inmate provided. Jail phone records would show only that the inmate called the agent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By hiding the ultimate targets of their calls, inmates could use the free calls to intimidate witnesses or run other criminal activities from behind bars, putting the public at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11395222\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11395222\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"For years bail bonds agents used inmates inside Santa Clara County Main Jail to drum up new business.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/RS18881_main-jail-sc-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For years bail bonds agents used inmates inside the Santa Clara County Main Jail to drum up new business. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If the bail agent then uses his or her cellphone or office phone and makes a three-way call to, for instance, that inmate’s domestic violence victim, who is protected by a restraining order, we would have no way to prove that phone call was made,” prosecutor Filo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Le said if inmates are caught making three-way calls, they can have their calling privileges suspended. But, she added, the volume of jailhouse calls makes monitoring them difficult. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s department declined to answer questions about whether jail staff monitored those calls or whether it has taken steps to block three-way calling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia said he never paid inmates with cash. But he acknowledged giving them free phone calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court records show that during a five-month period in 2014, Garcia received 934 calls from the jail to his personal cellphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The bust\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators in the district attorney’s office started combing through thousands of recorded phone calls between bail agents and inmates in September 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late August 2015, Garcia peered through the blinds in his living room. He found his house surrounded by law enforcement officers with their guns drawn. They were pointing at him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘Holy smokes!’ ” Garcia said. “I thought I was dreaming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police arrested Garcia and booked him into the Santa Clara County Main Jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's funny, because I couldn't get through to anyone,” he said. “Everybody was in jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with Garcia, law enforcement officers arrested 30 other bail bond agents. It was the \u003ca href=\"http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0400-news/0100-press-releases/2015/release083-15.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">largest bust\u003c/a> of its kind in state history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutor Filo said when the district attorney’s office first began looking into bail-capping allegations, it didn’t expect to uncover evidence against so many bail agents. She said at some point investigators had to limit the scope of their work to get through the evidence they already had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia worked for a small firm, but many of those agents were employed by some of the nation’s biggest bail providers, including Aladdin, All-Pro Bail Bonds and Bail Hotline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia will serve three months in jail for his involvement in bail capping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11395509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11395509\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/24881_transform-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"The Santa Clara County District Attorney's office busted 31 bail bond agents in 2015 for illegal business practices.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/24881_transform-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/24881_transform-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/24881_transform-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/24881_transform.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/24881_transform-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/24881_transform-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/24881_transform-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/24881_transform-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/24881_transform-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office busted 31 bail bond agents in 2015 for illegal business practices. \u003ccite>(Jayne Lucas/\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/ca_dept_insurance/20958801736/in/album-72157657509991139/\">California Department of Insurance\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most of the agents who were arrested have accepted plea deals, with sentences ranging from community service to four months in jail. Seven of the cases have yet to be adjudicated. One agent, Garcia’s boss, went to trial and was found not guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No charges were filed against any bail firms or inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Clayton, director of the\u003ca href=\"http://www.americanbailcoalition.org/\" target=\"_blank\"> American Bail Coalition\u003c/a>, insisted the agents who were arrested do not represent the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t agree with people doing the alleged conduct, and if it is happening it does need to be stopped,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clayton said bail agents who don’t follow the rules should have their licenses revoked, but doesn’t think they should face felony charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Charity bonds'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlawful bail practices aren’t unique to Santa Clara County. In the past few years, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-former-lapd-jailer-accused-taking-bribes-20160506-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanbag.ca.gov/news/publications/2012-13GrandJuryFinalReportonlineposting.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">San Bernardino\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.orangecounty-bailbonds.com/dui-blog/394-inmate-capping-the-dirty-little-secret-inside-our-jails\" target=\"_blank\">Orange\u003c/a> counties have reported bail-capping cases. The\u003ca href=\"http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0400-news/multimedia/0030VideoHearings/bailhearingvideo.cfm\" target=\"_blank\"> California Department of Insurance\u003c/a>, which regulates the bail industry, estimated that since 2012, complaints about illegal activity by bail agents have tripled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these have come from other bail agents. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/da/Pages/DA-office-site-home-page.aspx\">Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office\u003c/a> launched its 2014 investigation after receiving complaints from agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The surge in complaints may be a result of increased competition within the industry, which generates $2 billion in revenue nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to testimony from Sylvia Herrera, a former Aladdin employee and a witness in the bail-capping cases, agents had to bring in $50,000 and write 20-30 bonds a month. Herrera said the quota was nearly impossible to meet without bending the rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She described several occasions when she posted bonds for defendants for as little as $10 down. She said she would set up a payment plan for a defendant, knowing the person would probably never pay it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera said agents don’t make a commission on these “charity bonds,” but the deals boost their monthly numbers, and the bail agency is satisfied because the competition for those bonds is eliminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aladdin didn’t respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Payment plans are common in the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2016/05/03/how-bail-works/\" target=\"_blank\">bail industry\u003c/a>. But they can put the public at risk. A defendant facing felony charges for a violent crime can get out of jail while paying a fraction of the standard bail amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3533676-Alvarez.html#document/p7\" target=\"_blank\">Court records\u003c/a> show that a Santa Clara County defendant charged with a felony -- battery with serious bodily injury -- bargained with a bail agent to get out of jail for a $150 down payment. A judge had set his bail at $25,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final terms of this deal, like all bail bond deals, aren’t known to the public, the courts or regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clayton, the bail industry spokesman, acknowledged that payment plans are a problem. Other states have a set “floor” on how much money a defendant has to put up, but California does not. He said in an effort to get business, bail agents here offer defendants smaller and smaller down payments as part of a “race to the bottom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Balloon payments\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The terms of these payment plans can also hurt defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some payment plans are structured like payday loans, with debt payments ballooning over time, according to Cherise Burdeen of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pretrial.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Pretrial Justice Institute\u003c/a>, an organization working to end for-profit bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People will be paying long after they've satisfied whatever conditions they agreed to for the court,” Burdeen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who sign bail contracts with payment plans can lose their cars or even their homes. Often it’s not the defendant who pays, but a family member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.insurance.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California Department of Insurance\u003c/a> said it does not regulate contracts between agents and individuals. Teresa Campbell, assistant chief counsel for the department, said it often receives calls from people who say that a bail agent has taken possession of a car used for collateral, even though the defendant has not missed a court date. Campbell said the department can’t make the agent return the car, but it can apply pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In those situations, we will try and resolve it by getting that consumer, making that consumer whole,” she said. “They just want that car back, so we can work something out where they pay a fine or they have a restriction, and then they give the car back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campbell said the department doesn’t have the resources or the authority to adequately police bail agents. But she said that many bail agents are trying to keep their industry clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bail agents will often make complaints about other bail agents, if they know that they're going into jails or things like that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Alternative to Bail\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California state lawmakers are considering moving the state away from a money-based bail system to what is called \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/12/contra-costa-pretrial-program-offers-relief-for-those-who-cant-afford-bail/\" target=\"_blank\">“risk-based” pretrial release\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB42\" target=\"_blank\">legislation\u003c/a> sponsored by \u003ca href=\"http://www.robbonta.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Assemblyman Rob Bonta\u003c/a> (D-Alameda) and \u003ca href=\"http://sd18.senate.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Robert Hertzberg\u003c/a> (D-Van Nuys), defendants would be assessed for release based on a range of risk factors, including employment, criminal history and community ties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Individuals who are considered lower risk will be released on their own recognizance, without having to pay bail. Higher-risk defendants could be released if they comply with certain conditions, such as ankle monitoring or check-ins with a pretrial services officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defendants charged with violent crimes such as murder would not qualify for the pretrial release program. Judges would retain their authority to set bail in cases they deem appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s proponents say that it would reduce the number of people in jail awaiting trial and create a more equitable system. But bail agents say the legislation threatens public safety and undermines defendants’ civil liberties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s basically putting people on parole before they’ve been accused of a crime,” said Corrin Rankin of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbaa.com/\" target=\"_blank\">California Bail Agents Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rankin said money bail works because bail agents are neutral third parties. They don’t have any stake in what the defendant did or didn’t do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s beside the point,\" Rankin said. \"Our job is to make sure people go to court and we do it well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County is also considering moving away from money bail. It’s studying the feasibility of a nonprofit alternative to commercial bail bonds and looking at expanding pretrial supervision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our objective is making Santa Clara County safe and making sure that our justice system is truly just,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/d2/Pages/d2-supervisor-cindy-chavez.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">county Supervisor Cindy Chavez\u003c/a> said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was updated to include comments from Amy Le, president of the Santa Clara County Correctional Peace Officers Association. An earlier version of this post included comments from correctional officer Sean Allen.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated with more current results.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dire need for more affordable housing in cities like San Francisco wasn’t a huge talking point in the presidential election. However, in the pricey Bay Area, the issue was front and center on a number of local ballots. Voters are embracing local measures that promise to create new housing for low- and middle-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a brief rundown:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alameda County, early vote tallies pointed to large approval of \u003ca href=\"http://www.lwvbae.org/county-of-alameda-measure-a1-2016/\">Measure A1\u003c/a>, a $580 million housing bond. And that lead held up when the final vote came in, as voters approved the measure 72-28 percent. The general obligation bonds will finance the construction and rehabilitation of affordable rental units, loans for moderate-income homebuyers and upgrades to existing low-income housing. The measure easily got the two-thirds approval needed to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley, residents voted heavily in favor of \u003ca href=\"http://www.lwvbae.org/measure-z1-low-income-housing-authorization/\">Measure Z1\u003c/a>, passing it by 83-17 percent. The measure gives the city the green light to create 500 new below-market-rate units. Voter approval is required by the California Constitution for the new projects to go forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Oaklanders embraced \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/ibond2016/index.htm\">Measure KK\u003c/a>, a $600 million infrastructure bond earmarking $100 million for affordable housing. A citizen oversight committee would audit all spending from the measure. The measure passed 82-18 percent, as of Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Clara County, \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Santa_Clara_County,_California,_Affordable_Housing_Bonds,_Measure_A_(November_2016)\">Measure A\u003c/a> barely passed, with 67 percent approval. The measure requires two-thirds approval to pass. The sweeping affordable housing bond measure would allow the county to borrow up to $950 million to create and preserve an estimated 5,000 affordable housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County voters voted handily in favor of \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/San_Mateo_County,_California,_Sales_Tax,_Measure_K_(November_2016)\">Measure K\u003c/a>, which extends a half-cent sales tax through 2043. \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/San_Mateo_County,_California,_Sales_Tax,_Measure_K_(November_2016)\">The measure has nearly 70 percent voter approval, as of Wednesday afternoon. \u003c/a>The Board of Supervisors placed K on the ballot to help fund affordable housing for families, seniors, veterans and people with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in San Francisco, voters approved \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/loans-finance-acquisition-and-rehabilitation-affordable-housing\">Proposition C\u003c/a>, a measure that would allow the city to repurpose $261 million in unused general obligation bond funding that voters originally approved in 1992 for seismic upgrades. Under Proposition C, bonds would be used to acquire and rehabilitate multi-unit properties and convert them to permanently affordable housing. The local measure got 76 percent approval, as of Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Tuesday, June 14, Dr. Michelle Jorden stood in front of Santa Clara supervisors. She had a \u003ca href=\"http://sccgov.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Transcript.aspx?ID=1594&CssClass=&Frame=\">concern\u003c/a> she needed to voice:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In certain cases, the sheriff's office has impeded the examiners from receiving evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorden is one of three medical examiners who determine the cause and manner of unattended, unusual, violent or accidental deaths in the county -- including deaths in jails or at the hands of law enforcement officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at the supervisors’ \u003ca href=\"http://sccgov.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_LegiFile.aspx?Frame=&MeetingID=7827&MediaPosition=&ID=81568&CssClass=\">meeting\u003c/a> in June, Jorden asked the board to remove the sheriff’s control of the medical examiner’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I urge you to do the right thing,” she said. “Allow us 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>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/282718839\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorden’s accusations are especially disturbing in a county where, just last year, Michael Tyree, an inmate with a mental illness, was allegedly beaten to death in the Santa Clara County Main Jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the preliminary hearing in that case, medical examiner Joseph O’Hara said the inmate died from blunt force trauma -- and that he’d sustained injuries equivalent to being hit by a car or falling off a roof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That testimony was part of what convinced a Superior Court judge that there was enough evidence for three deputies to stand trial for Tyree’s murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county is investigating Jorden’s claims -- and is studying a proposal to remove the medical examiner’s office from the sheriff’s control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Laurie Smith called the accusation of interfering “absolutely false.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Murky Autopsy Standards \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a time when fatal shootings of civilians have increased mistrust of law enforcement and other public institutions, there’s growing concern over how to protect and empower the person determining how that shooting victim died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone needs to feel confident that the autopsy report is an objective report, done by people qualified to do the autopsy,” said state Sen. \u003ca href=\"http://sd06.senate.ca.gov/\">Richard Pan \u003c/a>(D-Sacramento), adding, “that those findings are not going to be unduly influenced or even suspected of being unduly influenced in any way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pan, a doctor, introduced a bill this year to do just that -- in part driven by a recent scandal involving the medical examiner in Ventura County that exposed a weakness in state law.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"OTIvYzt5M3ACey9uL66e44FZnmY4QXSk\"]\u003cbr>\nOn a number of occasions, the former chief medical examiner in Ventura County ordered unqualified staff to conduct autopsies while he was out of the country. Critics say that calls into question the findings of those autopsies and raises the potential for litigation against the county. Ventura officials terminated Dr. Jon Smith but they could not prosecute him for committing a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B9h9MALGgtUDUmpPWGZvTUNTTTQ\">report\u003c/a> by the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office observed that “there is no California statute which defines what constitutes an autopsy, differentiates between an autopsy and a partial autopsy, or mandates who is authorized to conduct an autopsy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, the district attorney urged the state Legislature to set specific standards and requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And lawmakers responded. The Legislature passed \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1189\">SB 1189\u003c/a> in August. Gov. Jerry Brown has until the end of September to veto or sign the bill, which mandates that all autopsies in California are performed by a licensed physician and surgeon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also requires law enforcement to provide all information about the death to the person conducting the autopsy before completion of the investigation -- the complaint Jorden made to Santa Clara County officials and one echoed by \u003ca href=\"http://www.pathologyexpert.com/\">Dr. Judy Melinek\u003c/a>, a forensic pathologist who lobbied for the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who are trying to do an independent evaluation of the death are requesting agency reports: witness statements, police reports, information from body cameras or from other physical evidence from the scene, scene photos, things like that,” said Melinek. “If there’s an ongoing criminal investigation or an internal affairs investigation, the law enforcement agency may not be forthcoming with that information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melinek said the bill will give forensic pathologists more leverage and crack down on misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Differing Systems by County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All counties are required to investigate unattended, unusual, violent or accidental deaths, and all deaths of jail inmates, prisoners or people killed by law enforcement to figure out what caused the death and whether the death was by suicide, homicide, accidental, natural or undetermined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Diego, San Francisco and Ventura counties, a medical examiner is in charge of those findings. Physicians who are typically board-certified forensic pathologists determine both cause and manner of death, based on autopsies they conduct and investigative reports from law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nearly all other counties in California, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.counties.org/county-office/sheriff-coroner\">sheriff-coroner\u003c/a> makes the final determination of the manner of death based on an investigation by a deputy coroner -- a sworn peace officer with specialized \u003ca href=\"http://ocsd.org/divisions/fieldops/coroner/cctc\">training\u003c/a> -- and by an autopsy conducted by a forensic pathologist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11081163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0031.JPG.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11081163\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0031.JPG-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Forensic pathologist Dr. Judy Melinek in her office in Alameda County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0031.JPG-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0031.JPG-400x300.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0031.JPG-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0031.JPG-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0031.JPG-960x720.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forensic pathologist Dr. Judy Melinek in her office in Alameda County. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Outside Pressure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melinek says while all doctors conducting autopsies are subject to outside pressure, that pressure tends to be greater on forensic pathologists who work within the sheriff-coroner office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melinek is one of the lead authors of the position \u003ca href=\"https://netforum.avectra.com/public/temp/ClientImages/NAME/00df032d-ccab-48f8-9415-5c27f173cda6.pdf\">paper\u003c/a> of the National Association of Medical Examiners (\u003ca href=\"https://netforum.avectra.com/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx?Site=name&WebCode=AboutNAME\">NAME\u003c/a>), which asserts that the objectivity of forensic pathologists’ findings depends on freedom from political influences and the threat of litigation. The paper was based in part on the findings of a 2011 member survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NAME found that 18 percent of forensic pathologists working for a medical examiner reported they were pressured to change their findings. In coroner’s offices, that increased to 30 percent who felt pressured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even more striking, the survey found that 43 percent of forensic pathologists who worked in a coroner system reported that the coroner had changed the cause on a death certificate in a way that conflicted with the autopsy findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melinek said the study also found that prosecutors tended to view the forensic pathologist within a coroner's office as part of the prosecutor’s team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Melinek said the person conducting the autopsy is presenting scientific findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My job is to speak for the deceased individual and what I find on their body,” she said. “I'm not going to couch my statements based on whether it's going to help one side or the other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Building in Checks and Balances\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The head of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.coroners.org/\">California State Coroners Association\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://cms.sbcounty.gov/sheriff/Divisions/Coroner.aspx\">Rocky Shaw\u003c/a>, acknowledged people sometimes have questions like, “ ‘How can we be certain that you are not doing something that is incorrect and everything that you are doing is transparent?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw said one way to ensure public confidence in death investigation findings is to turn those over to another county whenever the death involves law enforcement officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw said that’s the policy in San Bernardino, where he works as a supervising deputy coroner. Neighboring Riverside County handles autopsy and death investigations of officer-involved deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw said in those cases where there’s a disconnect between what the deputy coroner and forensic pathologist find, San Bernardino calls in more help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there’s any conjecture, if there’s any discussion as to, ‘you know I’m kind of edgy about this detail,’ or if we want oversight, we have panel reviews.” Shaw said. “Or we’ll sit down with not only the deputy coroner and pathologist, but we’ll bring investigative law officers in that were out on the case as well, and we’ll all have a part in making determination as to manner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Professionalism Best Way to Prevent Bias\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw and Melinek agree that what matters most is the professionalism of the organization: the level of training and funding and the management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not so much the structure of the department. It's how it's run,” according to Melinek. “So you can have a medical examiner who is incompetent and doesn't run a department well or you can have a coroner who's incredibly competent and hard-working and gives the doctors working under him or her autonomy and independence and all the material and information they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melinek draws from her own experience. She used to work for the medical examiner in Santa Clara until the county fired the chief medical examiner for mismanagement and put the office under the sheriff’s control. Melinek quit over concerns that doing so would compromise death investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next she went to work for San Francisco’s medical examiner -- an agency that has struggled with backlogs and alleged misconduct. Melinek now works as an independent contractor for the Alameda County Sheriff-Coroner’s Office, where she says no one has pressured her and she’s treated with respect.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'My job is to speak for the deceased individual and what I find on their body,'\u003ccite>Dr. Judy Melinek\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Shaw says it only makes sense for the coroners to work closely with the forensic pathologist conducting the autopsy. While the sheriff-coroner decides the manner of death -- for instance, saying whether a death is a suicide or perhaps, an accidental overdose -- without significant input from the forensic pathologist it is a waste of talent and good information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re just producing a cause of death -- they are just doing an autopsy and writing down the cause of death and that’s it, and they’re not involved with the investigation -- there’s a real disconnect,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw said the goal of every sheriff-coroner office in California is getting it right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately you’re making a decision that is very, very important that you’re correct, and getting it wrong can not only be very difficult to a family member but could cost a lot of money,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Clara, county officials are moving forward with their own plans to protect the independence of the medical examiner’s office by separating it from the sheriff’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change would add $800,000 a year to the county’s budget for death investigations, primarily to pay for a chief medical examiner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Executive Jeff Smith said he’s calling for the change “to assure there’s not perception of -- or reality of -- inappropriate influence of enforcement on the decision-making of the medical examiner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A subcommittee will discuss the proposal next month before putting it up for a vote by the full Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Critics say that calls into question the findings of those autopsies and raises the potential for litigation against the county. Ventura officials terminated Dr. Jon Smith but they could not prosecute him for committing a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B9h9MALGgtUDUmpPWGZvTUNTTTQ\">report\u003c/a> by the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office observed that “there is no California statute which defines what constitutes an autopsy, differentiates between an autopsy and a partial autopsy, or mandates who is authorized to conduct an autopsy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, the district attorney urged the state Legislature to set specific standards and requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And lawmakers responded. The Legislature passed \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1189\">SB 1189\u003c/a> in August. Gov. 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Physicians who are typically board-certified forensic pathologists determine both cause and manner of death, based on autopsies they conduct and investigative reports from law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nearly all other counties in California, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.counties.org/county-office/sheriff-coroner\">sheriff-coroner\u003c/a> makes the final determination of the manner of death based on an investigation by a deputy coroner -- a sworn peace officer with specialized \u003ca href=\"http://ocsd.org/divisions/fieldops/coroner/cctc\">training\u003c/a> -- and by an autopsy conducted by a forensic pathologist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11081163\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0031.JPG.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11081163\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0031.JPG-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Forensic pathologist Dr. Judy Melinek in her office in Alameda County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0031.JPG-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0031.JPG-400x300.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0031.JPG-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0031.JPG-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_0031.JPG-960x720.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forensic pathologist Dr. Judy Melinek in her office in Alameda County. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Outside Pressure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melinek says while all doctors conducting autopsies are subject to outside pressure, that pressure tends to be greater on forensic pathologists who work within the sheriff-coroner office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melinek is one of the lead authors of the position \u003ca href=\"https://netforum.avectra.com/public/temp/ClientImages/NAME/00df032d-ccab-48f8-9415-5c27f173cda6.pdf\">paper\u003c/a> of the National Association of Medical Examiners (\u003ca href=\"https://netforum.avectra.com/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx?Site=name&WebCode=AboutNAME\">NAME\u003c/a>), which asserts that the objectivity of forensic pathologists’ findings depends on freedom from political influences and the threat of litigation. The paper was based in part on the findings of a 2011 member survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NAME found that 18 percent of forensic pathologists working for a medical examiner reported they were pressured to change their findings. In coroner’s offices, that increased to 30 percent who felt pressured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even more striking, the survey found that 43 percent of forensic pathologists who worked in a coroner system reported that the coroner had changed the cause on a death certificate in a way that conflicted with the autopsy findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melinek said the study also found that prosecutors tended to view the forensic pathologist within a coroner's office as part of the prosecutor’s team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Melinek said the person conducting the autopsy is presenting scientific findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My job is to speak for the deceased individual and what I find on their body,” she said. “I'm not going to couch my statements based on whether it's going to help one side or the other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Building in Checks and Balances\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The head of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.coroners.org/\">California State Coroners Association\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://cms.sbcounty.gov/sheriff/Divisions/Coroner.aspx\">Rocky Shaw\u003c/a>, acknowledged people sometimes have questions like, “ ‘How can we be certain that you are not doing something that is incorrect and everything that you are doing is transparent?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw said one way to ensure public confidence in death investigation findings is to turn those over to another county whenever the death involves law enforcement officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw said that’s the policy in San Bernardino, where he works as a supervising deputy coroner. Neighboring Riverside County handles autopsy and death investigations of officer-involved deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw said in those cases where there’s a disconnect between what the deputy coroner and forensic pathologist find, San Bernardino calls in more help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there’s any conjecture, if there’s any discussion as to, ‘you know I’m kind of edgy about this detail,’ or if we want oversight, we have panel reviews.” Shaw said. “Or we’ll sit down with not only the deputy coroner and pathologist, but we’ll bring investigative law officers in that were out on the case as well, and we’ll all have a part in making determination as to manner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Professionalism Best Way to Prevent Bias\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw and Melinek agree that what matters most is the professionalism of the organization: the level of training and funding and the management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not so much the structure of the department. It's how it's run,” according to Melinek. “So you can have a medical examiner who is incompetent and doesn't run a department well or you can have a coroner who's incredibly competent and hard-working and gives the doctors working under him or her autonomy and independence and all the material and information they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melinek draws from her own experience. She used to work for the medical examiner in Santa Clara until the county fired the chief medical examiner for mismanagement and put the office under the sheriff’s control. Melinek quit over concerns that doing so would compromise death investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next she went to work for San Francisco’s medical examiner -- an agency that has struggled with backlogs and alleged misconduct. 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While the sheriff-coroner decides the manner of death -- for instance, saying whether a death is a suicide or perhaps, an accidental overdose -- without significant input from the forensic pathologist it is a waste of talent and good information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re just producing a cause of death -- they are just doing an autopsy and writing down the cause of death and that’s it, and they’re not involved with the investigation -- there’s a real disconnect,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw said the goal of every sheriff-coroner office in California is getting it right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately you’re making a decision that is very, very important that you’re correct, and getting it wrong can not only be very difficult to a family member but could cost a lot of money,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Clara, county officials are moving forward with their own plans to protect the independence of the medical examiner’s office by separating it from the sheriff’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change would add $800,000 a year to the county’s budget for death investigations, primarily to pay for a chief medical examiner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Executive Jeff Smith said he’s calling for the change “to assure there’s not perception of -- or reality of -- inappropriate influence of enforcement on the decision-making of the medical examiner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Karima Aucar is getting her hands dirty at a summer camp in San Mateo. She dips them in a vat of clay and begins pounding. As she starts to shape the clay into a turtle, her dad, Shauky Aucar, hovers over her before leaving for work at UCSF Medical Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/271589182\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the surface this could be any day camp in the Bay Area. It's full of giggling kids dressed in Warriors T-shirts and sneakers. But the reality is that Karima and the other kids here aren't your typical carefree campers. They live just a few feet away in transitional housing provided by \u003ca href=\"http://lifemoves.org/\">LifeMoves \u003c/a> for mostly low-income working families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apartment and day camp are a slice of normalcy for Karima, who was sleeping on a garage floor with her family just a few months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Well, it's like better than sleeping on a cold floor,\" says the 13-year-old. \"I had to wake up on my birthday sleeping on the floor, and I didn't get to celebrate it because my parents didn't have any money. It was hard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Aucar family still feels raw after abruptly losing their stable home. In December 2015, Aucar says they got pushed out their $2,400-a-month rental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everything started when we were living in Daly City for 10 years and the landlord went to sell the house,\" says Shauky Aucar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aucar, his wife and seven children moved into his mother-in-law's studio apartment nearby but the neighbors quickly complained. They then slept in the family's large van until it got so cold they ended up back at his mother-in-law's place. This time they were sleeping in the garage. They had to hide like outlaws, getting up early and returning late at night so the neighbors didn't complain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think this is the American Dream,\" says Aucar. \"I saw my kids on the ground and I said, 'I don't want this future for them.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aucar coped with the upheaval by keeping his routine, going to work every day. He says he has worked full time at UCSF for 23 years, taking people in and out of surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also continued taking his 20-year-old daughter, Anshi Aucar, to community college so she can be the first family member to graduate from college. She has aspirations of going to medical school after she gets her degree in respiratory therapy. But there's little doubt that being homeless has taken its toll on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are some people who were like, 'Oh wow, you're homeless,' and there's always that one person who's going to be like judgeful,\" says Anshi. \"It's life. Life happens and even though I didn't want this to happen to my family, I didn't wish it to anyone else neither.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But homeless outreach advocates say more and more people are having the same experience -- which is why cities in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties are launching new efforts to find, count and help people they call the hidden homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11004970\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11004970 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19996_FullSizeRender-qut1-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sabrina Delgado - a homeless outreach team leader is helping a woman living out of her car in Redwood City get temporary housing in San Jose.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19996_FullSizeRender-qut1-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19996_FullSizeRender-qut1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19996_FullSizeRender-qut1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19996_FullSizeRender-qut1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19996_FullSizeRender-qut1-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabrina Delgado, a homeless outreach team leader, is helping a woman living out of her car in Redwood City get temporary housing in San Jose. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sabrina Delgado walks the streets in San Mateo County as a Homeless Outreach Team leader for LifeMoves, the organization that found temporary housing for the Aucars. She says it's not easy to find the people they are trying to count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because they're at work,\" says Delgado. \"So we can have a couple, and both are working minimum wage jobs. And so, even combining the two incomes together, they can't make the rents in the Bay area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers, police or neighbors often refer people to groups like LifeMoves, says Brian Greenberg, vice president of programs and services for the nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A second- or third-grader will go to their teacher because they have no ego and say, 'We're homeless, we're living in a car,' \" says Greenberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greenberg says there are more than 8,000 homeless people in Santa Clara and \u003ca href=\"https://hsa.smcgov.org/sites/hsa.smcgov.org/files/2015%20SMC%20Homeless%20Count%20%20Final%20Report.pdf\">San Mateo \u003c/a>counties, with \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_30070297/san-jose-council-oks-controversial-homeless-housing-project\">San Jose \u003c/a>having the largest homeless population. He expects the number of working homeless people to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Service-sector jobs on the Peninsula and in Silicon Valley don't pay that much more than other parts of the country, but the price of housing obviously is outstanding here,\" says Greenberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aucar says that after working his entire adult life, he never thought he would wind up in temporary housing -- much less sleeping in the family van or on a garage floor -- with no guarantee of finding affordable housing again. LifeMoves is doing everything possible to place the family in permanent housing, but Aucar knows the family has a limited amount of time before they have to move on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A little scared about what happens after we finish the program here. 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They had to hide like outlaws, getting up early and returning late at night so the neighbors didn't complain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think this is the American Dream,\" says Aucar. \"I saw my kids on the ground and I said, 'I don't want this future for them.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aucar coped with the upheaval by keeping his routine, going to work every day. He says he has worked full time at UCSF for 23 years, taking people in and out of surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also continued taking his 20-year-old daughter, Anshi Aucar, to community college so she can be the first family member to graduate from college. She has aspirations of going to medical school after she gets her degree in respiratory therapy. But there's little doubt that being homeless has taken its toll on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are some people who were like, 'Oh wow, you're homeless,' and there's always that one person who's going to be like judgeful,\" says Anshi. \"It's life. Life happens and even though I didn't want this to happen to my family, I didn't wish it to anyone else neither.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But homeless outreach advocates say more and more people are having the same experience -- which is why cities in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties are launching new efforts to find, count and help people they call the hidden homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11004970\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11004970 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19996_FullSizeRender-qut1-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sabrina Delgado - a homeless outreach team leader is helping a woman living out of her car in Redwood City get temporary housing in San Jose.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19996_FullSizeRender-qut1-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19996_FullSizeRender-qut1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19996_FullSizeRender-qut1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19996_FullSizeRender-qut1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19996_FullSizeRender-qut1-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabrina Delgado, a homeless outreach team leader, is helping a woman living out of her car in Redwood City get temporary housing in San Jose. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sabrina Delgado walks the streets in San Mateo County as a Homeless Outreach Team leader for LifeMoves, the organization that found temporary housing for the Aucars. She says it's not easy to find the people they are trying to count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because they're at work,\" says Delgado. \"So we can have a couple, and both are working minimum wage jobs. And so, even combining the two incomes together, they can't make the rents in the Bay area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers, police or neighbors often refer people to groups like LifeMoves, says Brian Greenberg, vice president of programs and services for the nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A second- or third-grader will go to their teacher because they have no ego and say, 'We're homeless, we're living in a car,' \" says Greenberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greenberg says there are more than 8,000 homeless people in Santa Clara and \u003ca href=\"https://hsa.smcgov.org/sites/hsa.smcgov.org/files/2015%20SMC%20Homeless%20Count%20%20Final%20Report.pdf\">San Mateo \u003c/a>counties, with \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_30070297/san-jose-council-oks-controversial-homeless-housing-project\">San Jose \u003c/a>having the largest homeless population. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors has unanimously accepted recommendations from a group tasked with evaluating county jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They include appointing an inspector general to provide independent jail oversight, and a major overhaul in the inmate grievance and complaint process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Blue Ribbon Commission on Improving Custody Operations was formed in response to last year's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/29/two-mentally-ill-inmates-died-one-month-in-santa-clara\" target=\"_blank\">death of Michael Tyree\u003c/a>, a mentally ill inmate who was held in San Jose. Three jail deputies have been charged with Tyree's murder and face trial. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/29/two-mentally-ill-inmates-died-one-month-in-santa-clara\" target=\"_blank\">A KQED investigation\u003c/a> found that correctional officers fired pepper spray, tear gas and plastic projectiles at another mentally ill man less than a month after Tyree's death.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"bEi5Z9Io7REos2vXhIoGV8omh2trxQvh\"]\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://sccgov.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=7189\" target=\"_blank\">Recommendations to improve Santa Clara County's\u003c/a> troubled jails were presented to the Board of Supervisors Tuesday in a dramatic scorched-earth fashion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaDoris Cordell — chairwoman of the independent Blue Ribbon Commission on Improving Custody Operations — compared the jails with a defective crashing plane, with \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_29596821/sheriff-laurie-smith-lashes-out-at-jail-commission\">Santa Clara County Sheriff\u003c/a> Laurie Smith as the pilot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because on the long descent, there was a pilot who was either indifferent or incompetent or a combination of both, and did not realize that this plane was headed to crash,\" said Cordell, a retired Superior Court judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe this is what happened with the jails. 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Cordell also made it clear she thought Smith was out of line in asking her for private emails, texts and communications under California's Public Records Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10927744\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10927744 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19111_FullSizeRender-qut-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sheriff Laurie Smith (R) leaves the Supervisor's meeting unruffled after being heavily criticized. \" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19111_FullSizeRender-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19111_FullSizeRender-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19111_FullSizeRender-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19111_FullSizeRender-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/RS19111_FullSizeRender-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheriff Laurie Smith (R) leaves the supervisors meeting unruffled after being heavily criticized. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Smith did not address the supervisors and left after Cordell's presentation and before public testimony. Appearing unfazed but determined outside the supervisors' chambers, Smith told reporters the commission's recommendations are great.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're moving forward with reforms. I think that we will get there,\" said Smith. \"Let's wait for the National Institute of Corrections report. I think they'll put a lot of things in perspective. They are the national experts that review jail operations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That report is expected to be released next week. When asked if she is still planning on running for re-election in 2018 Smith said, \"I'm not a quitter. I want to see the changes go through.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordell is also asking the supervisors for swift action on creating and financing an Office of Inspector General of the Jails. The inspector general would provide independent oversight of jail operations but not run the jails. 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"content": "\u003cp>The final three weeks of Walter Roches' life last September were, like much of his previous decade, violent and chaotic, complicated by mental illness and repeated encounters with law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches, 32, had completed a state prison sentence for domestic violence. Afterward, he was placed in the Evans Lane Wellness and Recovery Center, a San Jose facility that, among other things, treats mentally ill parolees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 5, over Labor Day weekend, Roches was arrested and charged with battery after a \"physical and sexual altercation\" at Evans Lane. He was sent to the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, where he reportedly assaulted two staff members, according to arrest records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches spent the next two weeks in the jail's general population, where he reportedly refused to take a drug prescribed to treat him for psychotic behavior. Jail staff initially noted him to be \"clean and exhibiting good speech.\" But he rapidly deteriorated, and on Sept. 16 was described as \"poorly groomed and disheveled,\" according to the coroner's report on his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days after that observation, Roches was released. He wasn't on the street for long, though. Milpitas police arrested him the next day for assault and battery, and public drunkenness.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Correctional officers fired pepper spray, tear gas and plastic projectiles at Walter Roches, who remained mute and did not struggle.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Back at Santa Clara County Jail, staff found Roches had deteriorated further. After noting his refusal to talk, shower or cooperate with other requests -- later reports described Roches as \"catatonic\" -- the staff decided to move him to the jail's psychiatric ward. The officers commanded him to come out of his cell, but he didn’t respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of his psychosis, Roches may not have understood the commands or been able to respond, said Dr. Michelle Jorden, an assistant medical examiner in Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the officers tried pepper spray. Roches did not respond. Next, they threw a canister of tear gas through the food slot in the cell door. No response. Then using an FN303 “less lethal” firearm, the officers shot three times through the food slot, hitting Roches with plastic projectiles. He still didn’t respond. Finally, the officers opened the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches remained mute and did not struggle during the cell extraction or when the officers escorted him out, Jorden said. As part of her investigation she saw a video of the incident, which is not publicly available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches died in the jail a week later. While conducting an autopsy, Jorden found Roches had suffered head trauma and had dozens of bruises on his torso and arms, ranging in size from less than an inch to a 12-by-7.5-inch bruise on his abdomen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jorden said Roches did not die from those injuries. He died from an “untreated mental illness” and sepsis from an untreated urinary tract infection, according to her report. Roches had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in the past. Jorden said he became acutely manic while at the jail, which raised his heart rate and blood pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10912403\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/medicalexaminer-e1459207115277.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912403\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10912403\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/medicalexaminer-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Michelle Jorden conducted Roches autopsy. She says he died from untreated mental illness, complicated by sepsis.\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Michelle Jorden conducted an autopsy on Roches. She says he died from untreated mental illness, complicated by sepsis. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Over time the body can take so much,\" she said, \"and then you can enter into an exhaustive stage and exhibit circulatory collapse.” Being subject to force would have “heightened and accelerated” the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI is now investigating the deaths of Roches, another mentally ill inmate and additional complaints about Santa Clara jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of Roches' death, Santa Clara County had the equivalent of one and a half psychiatrists for between about 3,500 and 4,000 inmates. Judges, lawyers, correctional officers and advocates agree that it could take weeks or months for an inmate to see a psychiatrist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly Knapp, an attorney with the \u003ca href=\"http://prisonlaw.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Prison Law Office\u003c/a>, filed a class action lawsuit in November against Santa Clara County for inhumane conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some serious questions about whether [Roches] was capable of refusing care or whether he should have been involuntarily medicated,” Knapp said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches' death occurred just a month after another mentally ill man died in the same jail following what investigators say was a brutal beating at the hands of three guards. That case led to murder charges and unprecedented scrutiny of how the jail handles mentally ill inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/255788391\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Death of Michael Tyree\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That other inmate, 31-year-old Michael Tyree, was sentenced to five days in jail for violating probation on a minor drug charge in August. Judge Stephen Manley presides over Santa Clara County’s mental health court and sentenced Tyree, who struggled with bipolar disorder and addiction. Manley said he wanted to send Tyree to a treatment center, but there were no beds available at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coroner’s report shows that Tyree died of blunt force trauma, including severe internal bleeding. During a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/03/three-santa-clara-jail-guards-arrested-in-inmates-death\" target=\"_blank\">preliminary hearing\u003c/a>, Dr. Joseph O’Hara of the county Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office testified that the most brutal of Tyree’s injuries were equivalent to being hit with a truck. O’Hara testified that Tyree could not have caused his own fatal injuries, which the deputies' defense attorneys argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10912297\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Michael-Head-Shot-Pic.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912297\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10912297 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://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=\"400\" height=\"500\">\u003c/a>\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>During the hearing, Tyree's sister Elizabeth Ott reacted to seeing photographs of her brother lying naked on the cell floor and covered with feces, vomit and bruises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really horrible,\" she said through tears outside the courthouse. \"I don’t know what would possess somebody to do such a horrible thing to anybody. He was a person, he was valued, he was loved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about Tyree’s death, Santa Clara Sheriff Laurie Smith responded, “You’re asking me how it could have happened? It was a crime. It’s being prosecuted. We did a thorough investigation, we made arrests within a week. It’s a horrible crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/scc/Pages/brc.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">independent commission\u003c/a> was created to investigate the jail. Attorneys for that body recently interviewed nearly a thousand inmates, dozens of jail staff and one inmate’s family. In their report, attorneys said numerous inmates complained that correctional officers beat mentally ill inmates to set an example for other prisoners about what behavior they will and won’t tolerate. Those prisoners are targeted, fellow inmates say, because guards do not think mentally ill inmates will report the abuse. Some guards continue to abuse mentally ill offenders, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith says her department is investigating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting additional grievances,\" she said. \"We’re getting additional allegations. We’ve added staff to our internal affairs unit, to our detective unit, and we’re committed to following up everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correctional officers said at commission meetings that mentally ill inmates housed in general population dormitories often suffer violence at the hands of fellow prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Allen, a correctional officer suing the sheriff’s office for workplace discrimination, is concerned that mentally ill inmates are routinely housed with the general population. He says mentally ill inmates will “kick the doors sometimes -- in some cases all night -- disrupting a dorm of 60 to 90 people. So when you open the doors you’ll find violence because these people will attack this person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen says that when correctional officers try to move mentally ill inmates to the jail’s psychiatric unit, they’re often told there’s no room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll write these mental health referrals, multiple on one particular person, and mental health will go, ‘Eh, we don’t have the space upstairs,'” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Manley is also concerned about the psychiatric ward's capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The waiting list to place people in treatment outside of the jail is roughly the same now as it was six months ago,\" he said. \"It’s anywhere from 90 to 150 people that I’ve ordered released into custody, from custody into treatment, who are not released because there is no treatment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10912302\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912302\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10912302\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"The FBI and two independent commissions are investigating the operations of Santa Clara County's Main Jail.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The FBI and two independent commissions are investigating the operations of Santa Clara County's Main Jail. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Currently, the psychiatric ward can serve 139 inmates. In February, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted to double the number of beds for mentally ill inmates in a planned new jail facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The independent commission, including Manley, called on Saturday for the Board of Supervisors to take immediate steps to change the jail leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Blue Ribbon Commission has learned that the myriad problems in the operation of the jails are not recent, but have been ongoing for some time. The problems range from, but are not limited to, mismanagement of the Inmate Welfare Fund, a broken grievance/complaint process, a flawed classification system, a broken medical and mental health system for inmates, a problematic custody input report process, a fear of retaliation by both correctional officers and inmates, a stunning lack of transparency in the jail operations and the murder of Michael Tyree. The Board of Supervisors should acknowledge that the operation of the jails under the current leadership has been a failure for the inmates, for the correctional officers and for the Taxpayers,” the commissioners wrote in a report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Growing Statewide Problem\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s jails were built to hold inmates for relatively short sentences -- usually just a few months. But a change in state law five years ago, known as realignment, shifted more felons to local jails and out of the overcrowded state prisons. In May 2011, the average daily population of jails was 69,406; in May 2015, it was 73,301. Since realignment, the state has provided more than $2.2 billion to counties to help build new correctional facilities, hire staff or create programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Ndk45TGpPeBuiMJu2QgB5IuXAEkVWNZd\"]But one of the biggest changes that local law enforcement is grappling with is holding offenders for long periods of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not just dealing with somebody for 90 days. I’m dealing with somebody for possibly two years,” says Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean, who chairs a state committee to revise jail regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s had an impact on mentally ill inmates. Dean says that there’s a big difference between holding someone who is mentally ill for several months and holding that person for several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You look at more of a long-term treatment program, maybe a different application of medication that might help them, and then what kind of long-term programming to provide,” Dean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one knows how many of the roughly 73,300 people in California's jails on a daily basis are suffering from mental illness or how many of them are receiving treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.bscc.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Board of State and Community Corrections\u003c/a> oversees county jails from the statewide level. It collects data using a voluntary survey, including information on mental health cases and psychotropic medications. However, the agency’s staff say that some counties have interpreted what constitutes a mental health case differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010 an average of 247 county jail inmates received mental health care on a daily basis statewide, compared with 343 in 2014. During the same time period, 166 inmates received psychotropic medications on a daily basis in 2010, compared with 238 in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912312\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10912312\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-800x450.png\" alt=\"Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-960x540.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the information has gaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of almost five full years of data from the voluntary BSCC survey, counties did not report how many inmates they treated for mental illness almost one quarter of the time, and also did not report on how many inmates received psychotropic medications 16 percent of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More inmates are also dying in jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, 153 inmates died in custody of county jails, compared to 120 in 2010, according to \u003ca href=\"http://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/data\" target=\"_blank\">state Department of Justice\u003c/a> data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statistics suggest that inmates commit suicide at a higher rate in jails. In 2014, 38 inmates committed suicide while in custody of county jails, accounting for nearly 25 percent of deaths, compared to the 23 inmates who committed suicide while in custody of state prisons, accounting for 7 percent of deaths. There are seven deaths that occurred in 2014 in state jails the cause of which are still being investigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912360\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10912360\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-800x346.png\" alt=\"In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder\" width=\"800\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-800x346.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-400x173.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-1180x511.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-960x416.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special Assistant Attorney General Justin Erlich oversees the state Department of Justice open data project. He says mental illness could be a contributing factor in the increase of in-custody deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got a lot of work to do around the mental health and physical health of inmates in county jails,” he said. “When you know something is happening, but you don’t know the extent of the problem, it can inhibit progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.bscc.ca.gov/s_adulttitle15&24regulationsrevision2015.php\" target=\"_blank\">committee\u003c/a> will discuss some of the first proposed changes to Title 15, the state law that sets minimum standards for jails, since realignment. Sheriff Dean of Ventura County chairs the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One proposal is to mandate training for all correctional staff who screen incoming inmates for mental illness. This would be part of an eight-hour training session that would include reviewing minimum jail standards and operations within the first six months of employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manley says that training all correctional staff is imperative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know anywhere in California they are receiving the appropriate training, and that has to change,” Manley said. “The culture has to change to understand that mentally ill offenders are very difficult to work with. They are not easy to work with and they take a lot of time, a lot of patience, and they take some compassion. And these are all things that can be taught and can be learned. But you have to be willing to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee also proposed expanding efforts to prevent suicide. However, no changes have been proposed to restrict the use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for mentally ill inmates want the Board of State and Community Corrections to make far more dramatic changes in how the jails are run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The BSCC is rejecting or failing to implement substantive changes that would ensure people with mental illness receive adequate mental health care and are not at risk of harm from suicide, solitary confinement, lengthy use of restraints and disciplinary actions for behaviors they cannot control,” says Knapp of the Prison Law Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Manley says that making jails safer for mentally ill inmates is not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jails are for punishment. After punishment you have to look at rehabilitation and treatment,” he said. “When mentally ill offenders have served their punishment time and there is no treatment for them, they simply recycle back through the jail. So we are not doing anything to promote public safety and we are not doing anything to improve the mental health of those individuals who are incarcerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Don Clyde, Alex Cwalinski, Amy Mostafa, Peter Jon Shuler and Nicole West of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was produced as a project for the California Data Fellowship, a program of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Health Journalism\u003c/a> at the \u003ca href=\"http://annenberg.usc.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The final three weeks of Walter Roches' life last September were, like much of his previous decade, violent and chaotic, complicated by mental illness and repeated encounters with law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches, 32, had completed a state prison sentence for domestic violence. Afterward, he was placed in the Evans Lane Wellness and Recovery Center, a San Jose facility that, among other things, treats mentally ill parolees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 5, over Labor Day weekend, Roches was arrested and charged with battery after a \"physical and sexual altercation\" at Evans Lane. He was sent to the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, where he reportedly assaulted two staff members, according to arrest records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches spent the next two weeks in the jail's general population, where he reportedly refused to take a drug prescribed to treat him for psychotic behavior. Jail staff initially noted him to be \"clean and exhibiting good speech.\" But he rapidly deteriorated, and on Sept. 16 was described as \"poorly groomed and disheveled,\" according to the coroner's report on his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days after that observation, Roches was released. He wasn't on the street for long, though. Milpitas police arrested him the next day for assault and battery, and public drunkenness.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Correctional officers fired pepper spray, tear gas and plastic projectiles at Walter Roches, who remained mute and did not struggle.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Back at Santa Clara County Jail, staff found Roches had deteriorated further. After noting his refusal to talk, shower or cooperate with other requests -- later reports described Roches as \"catatonic\" -- the staff decided to move him to the jail's psychiatric ward. The officers commanded him to come out of his cell, but he didn’t respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of his psychosis, Roches may not have understood the commands or been able to respond, said Dr. Michelle Jorden, an assistant medical examiner in Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the officers tried pepper spray. Roches did not respond. Next, they threw a canister of tear gas through the food slot in the cell door. No response. Then using an FN303 “less lethal” firearm, the officers shot three times through the food slot, hitting Roches with plastic projectiles. He still didn’t respond. Finally, the officers opened the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches remained mute and did not struggle during the cell extraction or when the officers escorted him out, Jorden said. As part of her investigation she saw a video of the incident, which is not publicly available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches died in the jail a week later. While conducting an autopsy, Jorden found Roches had suffered head trauma and had dozens of bruises on his torso and arms, ranging in size from less than an inch to a 12-by-7.5-inch bruise on his abdomen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jorden said Roches did not die from those injuries. He died from an “untreated mental illness” and sepsis from an untreated urinary tract infection, according to her report. Roches had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in the past. Jorden said he became acutely manic while at the jail, which raised his heart rate and blood pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10912403\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/medicalexaminer-e1459207115277.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912403\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10912403\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/medicalexaminer-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Michelle Jorden conducted Roches autopsy. She says he died from untreated mental illness, complicated by sepsis.\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Michelle Jorden conducted an autopsy on Roches. She says he died from untreated mental illness, complicated by sepsis. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Over time the body can take so much,\" she said, \"and then you can enter into an exhaustive stage and exhibit circulatory collapse.” Being subject to force would have “heightened and accelerated” the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI is now investigating the deaths of Roches, another mentally ill inmate and additional complaints about Santa Clara jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of Roches' death, Santa Clara County had the equivalent of one and a half psychiatrists for between about 3,500 and 4,000 inmates. Judges, lawyers, correctional officers and advocates agree that it could take weeks or months for an inmate to see a psychiatrist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly Knapp, an attorney with the \u003ca href=\"http://prisonlaw.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Prison Law Office\u003c/a>, filed a class action lawsuit in November against Santa Clara County for inhumane conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some serious questions about whether [Roches] was capable of refusing care or whether he should have been involuntarily medicated,” Knapp said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches' death occurred just a month after another mentally ill man died in the same jail following what investigators say was a brutal beating at the hands of three guards. That case led to murder charges and unprecedented scrutiny of how the jail handles mentally ill inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/255788391&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/255788391'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Death of Michael Tyree\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That other inmate, 31-year-old Michael Tyree, was sentenced to five days in jail for violating probation on a minor drug charge in August. Judge Stephen Manley presides over Santa Clara County’s mental health court and sentenced Tyree, who struggled with bipolar disorder and addiction. Manley said he wanted to send Tyree to a treatment center, but there were no beds available at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coroner’s report shows that Tyree died of blunt force trauma, including severe internal bleeding. During a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/03/three-santa-clara-jail-guards-arrested-in-inmates-death\" target=\"_blank\">preliminary hearing\u003c/a>, Dr. Joseph O’Hara of the county Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office testified that the most brutal of Tyree’s injuries were equivalent to being hit with a truck. O’Hara testified that Tyree could not have caused his own fatal injuries, which the deputies' defense attorneys argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10912297\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Michael-Head-Shot-Pic.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912297\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10912297 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://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=\"400\" height=\"500\">\u003c/a>\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>During the hearing, Tyree's sister Elizabeth Ott reacted to seeing photographs of her brother lying naked on the cell floor and covered with feces, vomit and bruises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really horrible,\" she said through tears outside the courthouse. \"I don’t know what would possess somebody to do such a horrible thing to anybody. He was a person, he was valued, he was loved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about Tyree’s death, Santa Clara Sheriff Laurie Smith responded, “You’re asking me how it could have happened? It was a crime. It’s being prosecuted. We did a thorough investigation, we made arrests within a week. It’s a horrible crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/scc/Pages/brc.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">independent commission\u003c/a> was created to investigate the jail. Attorneys for that body recently interviewed nearly a thousand inmates, dozens of jail staff and one inmate’s family. In their report, attorneys said numerous inmates complained that correctional officers beat mentally ill inmates to set an example for other prisoners about what behavior they will and won’t tolerate. Those prisoners are targeted, fellow inmates say, because guards do not think mentally ill inmates will report the abuse. Some guards continue to abuse mentally ill offenders, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith says her department is investigating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting additional grievances,\" she said. \"We’re getting additional allegations. We’ve added staff to our internal affairs unit, to our detective unit, and we’re committed to following up everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correctional officers said at commission meetings that mentally ill inmates housed in general population dormitories often suffer violence at the hands of fellow prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Allen, a correctional officer suing the sheriff’s office for workplace discrimination, is concerned that mentally ill inmates are routinely housed with the general population. He says mentally ill inmates will “kick the doors sometimes -- in some cases all night -- disrupting a dorm of 60 to 90 people. So when you open the doors you’ll find violence because these people will attack this person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen says that when correctional officers try to move mentally ill inmates to the jail’s psychiatric unit, they’re often told there’s no room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll write these mental health referrals, multiple on one particular person, and mental health will go, ‘Eh, we don’t have the space upstairs,'” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Manley is also concerned about the psychiatric ward's capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The waiting list to place people in treatment outside of the jail is roughly the same now as it was six months ago,\" he said. \"It’s anywhere from 90 to 150 people that I’ve ordered released into custody, from custody into treatment, who are not released because there is no treatment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10912302\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912302\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10912302\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"The FBI and two independent commissions are investigating the operations of Santa Clara County's Main Jail.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The FBI and two independent commissions are investigating the operations of Santa Clara County's Main Jail. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Currently, the psychiatric ward can serve 139 inmates. In February, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted to double the number of beds for mentally ill inmates in a planned new jail facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The independent commission, including Manley, called on Saturday for the Board of Supervisors to take immediate steps to change the jail leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Blue Ribbon Commission has learned that the myriad problems in the operation of the jails are not recent, but have been ongoing for some time. The problems range from, but are not limited to, mismanagement of the Inmate Welfare Fund, a broken grievance/complaint process, a flawed classification system, a broken medical and mental health system for inmates, a problematic custody input report process, a fear of retaliation by both correctional officers and inmates, a stunning lack of transparency in the jail operations and the murder of Michael Tyree. The Board of Supervisors should acknowledge that the operation of the jails under the current leadership has been a failure for the inmates, for the correctional officers and for the Taxpayers,” the commissioners wrote in a report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Growing Statewide Problem\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s jails were built to hold inmates for relatively short sentences -- usually just a few months. But a change in state law five years ago, known as realignment, shifted more felons to local jails and out of the overcrowded state prisons. In May 2011, the average daily population of jails was 69,406; in May 2015, it was 73,301. Since realignment, the state has provided more than $2.2 billion to counties to help build new correctional facilities, hire staff or create programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>But one of the biggest changes that local law enforcement is grappling with is holding offenders for long periods of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not just dealing with somebody for 90 days. I’m dealing with somebody for possibly two years,” says Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean, who chairs a state committee to revise jail regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s had an impact on mentally ill inmates. Dean says that there’s a big difference between holding someone who is mentally ill for several months and holding that person for several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You look at more of a long-term treatment program, maybe a different application of medication that might help them, and then what kind of long-term programming to provide,” Dean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one knows how many of the roughly 73,300 people in California's jails on a daily basis are suffering from mental illness or how many of them are receiving treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.bscc.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Board of State and Community Corrections\u003c/a> oversees county jails from the statewide level. It collects data using a voluntary survey, including information on mental health cases and psychotropic medications. However, the agency’s staff say that some counties have interpreted what constitutes a mental health case differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010 an average of 247 county jail inmates received mental health care on a daily basis statewide, compared with 343 in 2014. During the same time period, 166 inmates received psychotropic medications on a daily basis in 2010, compared with 238 in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912312\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10912312\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-800x450.png\" alt=\"Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-960x540.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the information has gaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of almost five full years of data from the voluntary BSCC survey, counties did not report how many inmates they treated for mental illness almost one quarter of the time, and also did not report on how many inmates received psychotropic medications 16 percent of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More inmates are also dying in jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, 153 inmates died in custody of county jails, compared to 120 in 2010, according to \u003ca href=\"http://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/data\" target=\"_blank\">state Department of Justice\u003c/a> data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statistics suggest that inmates commit suicide at a higher rate in jails. In 2014, 38 inmates committed suicide while in custody of county jails, accounting for nearly 25 percent of deaths, compared to the 23 inmates who committed suicide while in custody of state prisons, accounting for 7 percent of deaths. There are seven deaths that occurred in 2014 in state jails the cause of which are still being investigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912360\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10912360\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-800x346.png\" alt=\"In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder\" width=\"800\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-800x346.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-400x173.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-1180x511.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-960x416.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special Assistant Attorney General Justin Erlich oversees the state Department of Justice open data project. He says mental illness could be a contributing factor in the increase of in-custody deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got a lot of work to do around the mental health and physical health of inmates in county jails,” he said. “When you know something is happening, but you don’t know the extent of the problem, it can inhibit progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.bscc.ca.gov/s_adulttitle15&24regulationsrevision2015.php\" target=\"_blank\">committee\u003c/a> will discuss some of the first proposed changes to Title 15, the state law that sets minimum standards for jails, since realignment. Sheriff Dean of Ventura County chairs the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One proposal is to mandate training for all correctional staff who screen incoming inmates for mental illness. This would be part of an eight-hour training session that would include reviewing minimum jail standards and operations within the first six months of employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manley says that training all correctional staff is imperative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know anywhere in California they are receiving the appropriate training, and that has to change,” Manley said. “The culture has to change to understand that mentally ill offenders are very difficult to work with. They are not easy to work with and they take a lot of time, a lot of patience, and they take some compassion. And these are all things that can be taught and can be learned. But you have to be willing to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee also proposed expanding efforts to prevent suicide. However, no changes have been proposed to restrict the use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for mentally ill inmates want the Board of State and Community Corrections to make far more dramatic changes in how the jails are run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The BSCC is rejecting or failing to implement substantive changes that would ensure people with mental illness receive adequate mental health care and are not at risk of harm from suicide, solitary confinement, lengthy use of restraints and disciplinary actions for behaviors they cannot control,” says Knapp of the Prison Law Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Manley says that making jails safer for mentally ill inmates is not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jails are for punishment. After punishment you have to look at rehabilitation and treatment,” he said. “When mentally ill offenders have served their punishment time and there is no treatment for them, they simply recycle back through the jail. So we are not doing anything to promote public safety and we are not doing anything to improve the mental health of those individuals who are incarcerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Don Clyde, Alex Cwalinski, Amy Mostafa, Peter Jon Shuler and Nicole West of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Freeze warnings have been issued for parts of the Bay Area, prompting counties to open cold-weather shelters to the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mtr/\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service\u003c/a> has issued a freeze warning for much of the inland Bay Area from Friday at 11 p.m. to Saturday at 9 a.m. A frost advisory has also been issued for the same period for coastal areas and along the San Francisco Bay shoreline. Temperatures in those areas are expected to range from 32 to 35 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the forecast, Santa Clara County is opening a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/opa/nr/Pages/South-County-Cold-Weather-Shelter-Opens-Early-in-Advance-of-Cold-Temperatures-Expected-this-Week.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">cold weather shelter\u003c/a> in Gilroy starting Friday night, and officials are working with local shelters to add up to 200 additional beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelters in San Jose and East Palo Alto have also opened their doors before the usual Nov. 30 opening date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is all organized ahead of time,” said Bob Dolci, housing and homeless concerns coordinator with the Santa Clara County Office of Supportive Housing. In addition to additional shelter beds, he said, spaces designated as “warming centers” are also opening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have different libraries, and community centers and senior centers and sports centers and places like that all throughout the county that open their doors to anybody who wants to come in out of the cold during the day,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolci noted that in general it’s been especially difficult lately to connect homeless individuals with permanent supportive housing due to rising costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even with the most amount of rental subsidies that we have available now -- ever -- in my years of doing this, it is so hard to find housing because it’s so expensive,” Dolci said. “We have a 1 percent vacancy rate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolci said his agency is in need of more case managers who can work with individuals to help them get off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case managers “help the person deal with issues that are related to getting them into, and staying in, housing,” he said. “If they're not connected to mental health services, to get them connected to those. 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