A federal magistrate on Monday granted a San Francisco law firm, along with help from the U.S. Department of Justice, oversight over Alameda County's Santa Rita Jail following allegations that those with mental illness are not treated humanely.
This agreement comes after nearly four years after the firm filed a class action lawsuit called Ashok Babu v. Ahern alleging the "cruel and unusual" treatment of people with mental disabilities, specifically by locking them up in isolation for long periods of time. Ain 2019 showed there was a high correlation between in-custody suicides and those people who had been locked in isolation.
To come to this decision, attorneys for the plaintiffs as well as Alameda County counsel filed 57,000 pages of documents, attended multiple tours of the jail over approximately eight days, and retained experts to investigate and render reports on the conditions in the jail. Some changes that will take place include giving incarcerated people more out-of-cell time, requiring the jail to provide enough mental health staff as well as provide better treatment of mental illness.
Oakland-based civil rights attorney Yolanda Huang and other community activists, along with dozens of incarcerated people, told the judge that they thought the agreement would make things worse inside the jail.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
The mentally I’ll should not be in common prisons that are not capable of treating them.
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