The Alameda County District Attorney on Tuesday announced prosecutors are reopening a case stemming from a suicide at Santa Rita Jail two years ago – which had never been publicly reported before.
The Alameda County District Attorney on Tuesday announced prosecutors are reopening a case stemming from a suicide atNewly elected DA Pamela Price – who campaigned on a platform of holding police accountable – said she wanted to review the in-custody death of Vinetta Martin, a mentally unstable woman kept in isolation, who killed herself by hanging herself in a cell with a bedsheet on April 2, 2021.
"I am glad Pamela Price is looking into these cases and safety issues at the jail," said Kara Janssen, an attorney who helps supervise the consent decree oversight of the jail. "It's too easy to keep inaccurate logs." A logbook kept by one deputy showed that the officer had made the required visits, the prosecutor's report states, but body camera video surveillance showed "that the deputy did not check on Ms. Martin at the time indicated in the log."
During her stay at Santa Rita Jail, Martin had been kept in "Administrative Segregation," a form of solitary confinement, and was awaiting transfer to Napa State Hospital. And O'Malley also said that Martin could have died within seconds or minutes. So, even if the deputies had conducted their check at 11:46 p.m. and 12:16 a.m. as required, she still would have had time to hang herself in the 30 minutes in between rounds, the report noted.
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