Recalled district attorney charges 11 Bay Area jail staff over 2021 death in custody

Pamela Price, recalled in November election, files criminal charges over man left unchecked for days in Santa Rita jail

A San Francisco Bay Area district attorney recalled in the 5 November election filed criminal charges this week against 11 former and current staff of a county jail for the 2021 in-custody death of a man who was left unchecked in his cell for days.

The Alameda county district attorney, Pamela Price, announced on Thursday that felony dependent adult abuse charges were filed against seven county sheriff's deputies, two former deputies and two medical staffers at the Santa Rita jail. If convicted, the maximum for each defendant is four years in state prison.