Santa Rita Jail in Dublin will provide female inmates with basic amenities such as trash bags and menstrual pads and improve training for deputies after four women plaintiffs reached a $130,000 settlement Monday with Alameda County.
The plaintiffs — Anne Weills, Tova Fry, Alyssa Eisenberg and Mollie Costello — sued the county, claiming that sheriff’s deputies violated their civil rights. The women were arrested and taken to Santa Rita Jail after participating in a protest in February 2014 against police shootings.
They say they planned for their arrest when they took part in a sit-in at a state office building in Oakland to demand state Attorney General Kamala Harris prosecute California police officers who had shot and killed citizens.
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