I spent nearly nine months inside of the Santa Rita facility, & the blatant amount of police…read moremisconduct that is encouraged & subsequently ignored by the upper administration is alarming. A normal day consists of being fed expired, rancid-tasting, and foul-smelling meat for lunch. Having your breakfast & dinner opened with the majority of the meal missing prior to you receiving the "tray". Being harassed nearly nonstop by the medical staff during pill calls & the Alameda County Sheriffs for the duration of the day. On some lucky days, you'll be confined to the cell that you're assigned to for days on end with no release for recreation or leisure time, & to top it off, while you're here, they will sometimes flat out refuse to feed you!
At every possible opportunity, the majority of the Alameda County Sheriff's Office can & will attempt to sabotage your well-being, your state of mind, & your safety. Due to the fact that I was a political prisoner, my experience may have been more severe than that of the "average" inmate.
During my incarceration in Santa Rita, I was denied access to meals on over 25 separate occasions, and when I was fed, I was given food that was opened and emptied of nearly all of its contents. I was denied exit from the cell I was assigned for recreation on more than 42 separate occasions, at times spending days locked inside the cell without exit. The majority of those forced imprisonments were facilitated by Vargas (badge #2403) and a deputy technician identified by Manzo as Filburn (badge #13).
After an inmate entered the cell I was assigned shortly before the morning meal on 3-9-23, I was subsequently drenched in mace by Molina (badge #2658), then locked inside the cell without access to meals or a shower to wash off the chemicals burning my skin, hair, eyes, and scalp.
This is but a nibble, a piece of all the traumatic experiences I went through while incarcerated in Santa Rita. We need to demand more from our elected officials and overseers regarding the treatment of our country's citizens while incarcerated or pre-conviction. The fact that I wrote numerous letters to District Attorney Pamela Price, Governor Gavin Newsom, Senator Scott Wiener, PREA Northern Region in California, and the Bureau of Prisons Regional Office in Sacramento with absolutely no response was especially telling. My arresting agency was the Federal Bureau of Investigations. I was held inside Santa Rita as a holding facility before a potential transfer back to Federal Prison, which never materialized, and was in turn subjected to Hell on Earth living conditions by a law enforcement agency that was essentially only my jailors. These sorts of stories are all too common, and due to the fact that District Attorney Pamela Price's office primarily facilitates the transfer from freedom to incarceration within that facility, it's my honest belief she should be doing more to know what is occurring within its walls. Again, the fact that her office couldn't even be bothered to respond to my letters showed the level of concern she has for those she ultimately sentences to a life of bondage.
