The ACLU said it found the county is still not providing adequate access to medications and is chaining people to objects, and is holding people in the IRC more than 24 hours, all of which would violate the judge's order from last year.
But problems have persisted.
Responding to the issues raised by Huntsman and the ACLU, Sheriff Robert Luna told the commission, “that is not acceptable,” adding that his department needs to take “immediate corrective action.”The ACLU’s new court filing recounts interviews with incarcerated people and a defense attorney “detailing her clients’ mental decompensation due to failures in the IRC intake process.”The County is still holding people for too long in the IRC and holding cells.
The ACLU alleges that to get around the four-hour limit at the IRC, jail staff are “tethering” people with mental health issues with restraints to gurneys in the hallways of Men’s Central Jail. Public defender Meredith Gallen told the ACLU that attorneys now submit potential clients into an ODR lottery system with “almost no chance of success.”The ACLU will ask the court to find the county in civil contempt and proposes fines via a schedule ranging from $250 to $10,000 depending on the violation.
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