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The Office of Inspector General found that guards at one Northern California prison, which they wouldn't name, "conducted a woefully inadequate and biased inquiry and made incorrect findings," after an incarcerated person complained about 20 times that he saw various guards not wearing masks.
State report details how botched inmate transfers sparked public health disaster at San Quentin
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Prison officials sparked a “public health disaster” with botched transfers, the Office of Inspector General said.Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle 2019Show MoreShow Less
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San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif., on Monday, December 14, 2020. California prison officials and medical staff sparked a “public health disaster” with their botched handling of prisoner transfers to San Quentin and Corcoran state prisons last year, the state’s Office of Inspector General said in a blistering report Monday.Scott Strazzante / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif., on Monday, December 14, 2020. California prison officials and medical staff sparked a “public health disaster” with their botched handling of prisoner transfers to San Quentin and Corcoran state prisons last year, the state’s Office of
A report by California's inspector general says misguided attempts to protect inmates from the coronavirus at one prison “caused a public health disaster” at another
The report provided new details on last spring’s catastrophic decision to move inmates from the California Institution for Men east of Los Angeles to San.