“People are thrown into the snake pit,” Santa Barbara County resident Kate Smith said about the jail and the county’s mental health care system during.
During a special meeting to discuss jail health care, Santa Barbara County residents and the Board of Supervisors expressed concerns about care transparency, inmates’ access.
Santa Barbara County needs more oversight of its jail healthcare contractor, which is not meeting basic standards for medical and mental-health services,
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