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A vigil and rally seeking justice for 23-year-old inmate and father Dujuan Armstrong, who died in Santa Rita Jail in 2018, was held outside of an Alameda County Sheriff’s Office substation in Oakland on Saturday afternoon.
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The hunger strike and work stoppage at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, California has ended.
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About 500 people participated in the main part of the strike in order to protest the jail’s allegedly unsanitary conditions.
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Mistreating jail inmates completely erodes the idea of “innocent until proven guilty.”
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Since Wednesday, tensions over the one-day hunger strike and three-day work stoppage at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, Calif. have continued.
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On Wednesday, inmates in Santa Rita Jail in Dublin staged a one-day hunger strike and ceased work to protest alleged neglect and abuse, which allegedly includes the jail’s unsanitary conditions, forced labor and lack of access to medical care and legal resources.
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BPD officers arrested a man on suspicion of traffic violation, resisting a peace officer and violation of probation after a foot chase Tuesday afternoon.
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Because of financial constraints, the Glenn E. Dyer Detention Facility in Oakland closed in June, causing its inmates to be transferred nearly 30 miles to the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, according to Alameda County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Sgt. Ray Kelley.
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According to the UCPD crime log for Wednesday, a man was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon on the second floor of the Haas Business School and was taken to Santa Rita Jail.
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The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office brought charges against a Vallejo man for alleged involvement in a August 2018 drive-by shooting at a popular Berkeley park, as first reported by Berkeleyside.
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