Thousands of inmates at the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center were evacuated due to the threat of flooding at the facility, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said Monday morning.
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Sacramento Sheriff’s Office Released 52 People To ICE Deportation Agents Last Year One By Mistake Wednesday, December 23, 2020 | Sacramento, CA
Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones.
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By Raheem Hosseini
Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones admitted this month that his department turned over a Latino man to federal deportation agents even though it wasn t supposed to alert ICE.
The father was one of 52 people who completed jail sentences in Sacramento only to be released to Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year.
Jones acknowledged the mistake during an annual presentation mandated by California s TRUTH Act. That law requires local governing bodies to hold at least one public forum a year if their law enforcement agencies provided access to ICE.
you know? [ laughter ] i was slightly uncomfortable, at first. i was watching them all the time to make sure they weren t sneaking up on me or anything like that. dake will serve his two-year sentence for auto theft and forgery at rio cosumnes instead of prison. his prior convictions include burglaries, forgery and theft from an elder. he says all of it was fuelled by a methamphetamine addiction. i was stealing. and any money that i could pull in, i was bailing drugs, whether it was from jewelry, whatever the heck i could get my hands onto sell. food didn t really matter at that point. you re just, like, i need to take care of my addictions first. that s how you know it s really got a hold of you. it s got its hand on you like this and saying it s going to make you do whatever you can to
locations. at the main jail it s more cell and more floors. and everyone s confined, everyone s agitated, everyone is so upset. everyone s mad. kind of like a dark and gloomy place. here, when you re here, it s outside, it s more fresh air. so it s a huge difference. rio cosumnes also houses the majority of the jail s ab-109 inmates. or those who would normally be serving lengthy sentences in california state prison. one of the benefits is that most are now closer to home. so they might get more business. visits. i m going to be honest, the word prison kind of scares me, so i ve never been. so i don t want to go. but ab-109 is cool because my family is closer, so it s kind of not being like, hey, i m in prison. it kind of feels better. but not all ab-109 inmates are happy with the law. one common reason is that prison is structured for more long time stays. with more comforts than are typically found in jails.