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  • John Balazs is an attorney in Sacramento, California, specializing in criminal defense, including appeals, habeas corpus, pardons, expungements, and civil forfeiture actions. After graduating from UCLA Law School in 1989, he clerked for Judge Harry Pregerson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. John was an Assistant Federal Defender in Fresno and Sacramento from 1992-2001. Please email EDCA items of interest to Balazslaw@gmail.com. Follow me on twitter @balazslaw.

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July 05, 2020

Sacramento and Fresno County Jails and COVID-19

Per articles in the Davis Vanguard and Sacramento Bee, Sacramento County Public Defenders filed last week a 400-page pleading asking the California Supreme Court to take action to "order the Sheriff to engage in life-saving measures" to prevent inmates' death from COVID-19.   

The Sacramento News & Review reports that U.C. Davis Medical Center has pulled its psychiatric residents from working at the Main Jail because of correctional officers' failure to wear masks.  

And as bad as things are in the Sacramento jail, it looks worse in the Fresno County jail where over 600 inmates have tested positive for COVID-19.  ABC 30, 7/30/20

 

Posted by at 07:39 PM in Fresno Jail, Sacramento County Jail |

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