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Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price announced Thursday
that felony dependent adult abuse charges were filed against
seven county sheriff’s deputies, two former deputies and two
medical staffers at Santa Rita Jail. If convicted, the maximum
for each defendant is four years in state prison.
Three of the defendants are also charged with falsifying
documents related to the death of Maurice Monk, 45, who was
found unresponsive in his cell in November 2021 after a month in
custody.
Price was elected in 2022 on a progressive platform that
included holding corrections officials accountable for
in-custody deaths. It is uncertain if her successor will pursue
the charges after Price was ousted by voters in a rare recall
election.
Monk was arrested in October after being accused of disorderly
conduct and refusing to leave a transit bus. He was sent to jail
after failing to appear on a bench warrant for a previous and
unrelated misdemeanor offense on a transit bus line, her office
said.
A lawsuit filed by Monk's family said footage from jail
deputies’ body cameras showed that the deputies as well as
nurses dropped food and medication into Monk’s cell as he lay
unresponsive for three days, the San Francisco Chronicle
reported.
The county settled the family’s lawsuit for $7 million last
year.
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