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A series of fights broke out at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin yesterday afternoon, prompting officials to lock down the facility for 24 hours, an Alameda County sheriff’s spokesman said.
The fights involved inmates of one of the jail’s minimum security units. Sheriff’s Sgt. J.D. Nelson said the fights appear to have stemmed from an incident that happened during the inmates’ scheduled outdoor yard time.
A deputy noticed that some of the bagged lunches that are distributed during yard time were missing, and told the inmates they would lose the privilege of spending time outside if the lunches were not returned.
Upon canceling yard time, inmates returned to the housing unit, and a fight broke out in a common area. Nelson said that fight was stopped, but two more fights followed, one in which one of the participants suffered serious injuries and required hospital treatment.
He said each fight involved one black and one Hispanic inmate and that jail officials implemented a 24-hour lockdown to investigate the disputes, in part to determine whether there are larger racial tensions in the jail.
The lockdown, which is affecting all of the jail’s 3,700 inmates, is expected to be lifted this afternoon.
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Stop the kid clove tactics. These low life’s waste our time and money. When they don’t follow the rules, break their wrist. I’m tired of hearing about trouble in prisons. When you go to prison you damn well better follow the rules. When the Rock was open…everyone kept their mouth shut or else.
Okay all you bleeding hearts…tell me I’m evil…Get robbed at gun point by one of these low life’s…maybe you’ll wake up.
Make them toe the line or break there toe’s…they’ll get the point and if they don’t break the other one.
Julia from Alamo
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