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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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The sheriff’s office received a 5 percent budget increase for the 2018-19 fiscal year, according to Jose Bernal, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights senior organizer and advocate. Bernal argued that the money would be more effective if it went toward youth programs and solving homelessness and poverty.
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At least 33 people were killed in an Oakland warehouse fire Friday night and dozens are still missing, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said at an afternoon press conference Sunday.
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