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Episode 19 - Action Alert! Stop Deaths at Santa Rita Jail

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You are invited to come to Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, CA on April 1st at 1pm to demand an end to deaths at the jail and for funding of community-based mental health services. This rally is being organized by the Care First Coalition, which you can follow on Instagram @freesrj.

Four people have already died in the jail this year alone, and we're only in March. That's in addition to dozens of other deaths in the past decade. The jail is unsafe and county officials need to do better. Please come out to support and learn more.

The demands of the organizers:

  1. Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez and all law enforcement agencies in Alameda County immediately end their deadly practice of arresting and incarcerating people with mental health and substance needs.
  2. Alameda County Board of Supervisors order an investigation of deaths in Santa Rita Jail, including a review of the contract with the private medical
    3. provider in the jail, Wellpath, which has utterly failed to prevent these deaths of people on intake.
  3. Alameda County Board of Supervisors immediately fund $50M of life-saving community mental health services they committed to last year but have stalled to implement.
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