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As Santa Rita Jail is taking precautions in light of the COVID-19, colloquially known as the coronavirus, pandemic, organizations and activists are pushing for more drastic measures.
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The Alameda County Superior Court ordered the release of low-risk offenders arrested for failing to appear in court from Santa Rita Jail on Wednesday in response to COVID-19, or the new coronavirus.
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Presiding Judge of the Superior Court of Alameda County Tara Desautels issued a general order Thursday releasing 247 individuals from Santa Rita Jail in light of the current status of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus.
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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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