A Humboldt County correctional officer as tested positive for COVID-19, the Sheriff’s Office announced this morning. The deputy tested positive for the virus during a routine medical screening and is asymptomatic, according to a press release. They will undergo a 14-day isolation period required by Public Health, the release states, adding that contact investigators have […]
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Two Correctional Deputies Assaulted Over the Weekend in Separate Incidents
Two Humboldt County correctional officers were assaulted this weekend during two separate altercations within the Humboldt County jail. On June 12, while a deputy was conducting an inmate count he noticed a “compliance violation” and asked Damen Carlson who was in the cell to resolve the issue. Soon after Carlson allegedly charged the deputy and […]
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COVID-19 Case at Pelican Bay as Prison Transfers to Slowly Restart, but not from Humboldt Quite Yet
A staff member at Pelican Bay State Prison has tested positive for COVID-19, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation website. The prison located north of Crescent City is one of the most notorious in the state system, opening in 1989 to house California’s most serious offenders. To date, 18 Pelican Bay inmates […]
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Jail Visitations Starting Back Up
The Humboldt County jail will be allowing visitations again starting Monday with some restrictions, including a limit of four inmates and no more than two visitors per inmate during a session. Face coverings in compliance with the Humboldt County health officer’s order will be required. Read the full Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office news release here.
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Precautionary Testing Part of Jail COVID-19 Measures; Visitations Likely to Resume in a Couple Weeks
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post today that several correctional deputies were tested for COVID-19 as a precaution to protect those at the jail. All came back negative. Other measures include requiring all staff who interact with inmates to wear masks, separating those newly booked from the rest of the jail […]
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Judicial Council Pushes Bail to $0 for Misdemeanor, Low-level Felony Arrests Amid COVID Concerns
The Humboldt County jail has changed policies to reflect an emergency rule passed by the California Judicial Council mandating $0 bail for misdemeanors and low-level felonies in an effort to reduce inmate risk of a COVID-19 outbreak. “I understand the unprecedented impacts that the COVID-19 outbreak has created but am deeply concerned that this rule […]
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Artists Inside
Tucked in the golden rolling hills of the Tomales Bay watershed, a dozen miles north of Mt. Tamalpais, sits the Marin Museum of the American Indian in Miwok Park. Henry Frank, the museum’s vice president, sits beneath a canopy of redwoods in late October while scrolling through his phone for photographs he took of hawks […]
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Crimes from the Past
Recorded in the eloquent handwritten script of a bygone era, a set of recently rediscovered ledgers contains more than just a list of the individuals who were led through the doors of the Humboldt County jail starting back in the 1880s. The seven logs, along with an equal set of mug shot books, also offer […]
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Kitchen Surrenders, Won’t Contest Being Jailed Until Sentencing in Manslaughter Case
Marci Kitchen voluntarily surrendered her bail bond and turned herself into the Humboldt County jail today and, according to her court appointed mitigation specialist, will not contest prosecutors’ efforts to keep her behind bars until she is sentenced later this month on charges of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. Humboldt County jail staff said that Kitchen […]
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New Jail Transportation Assistance Program Will Still Leave Some Arrestees Stranded, At Least Temporarily
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office sent out a press release this week announcing it has revised its program assisting poor arrestees in getting home after they are released from custody to help them “have a better chance to create a healthy lifestyle upon release.” State law has long required that jails offer transportation assistance, upon […]
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The County’s $3.5 Million Settlement
The county of Humboldt has settled the federal civil rights lawsuit stemming from the 2014 jail death of Daren Borges, agreeing to pay Borges’ family $3.5 million in damages and legal fees, and to make various changes to jail policy. Borges, 42, a homeless, schizophrenic poet and artist, was living in Eureka at the time […]
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County Settles Wrongful Death Lawsuit for $3.5 Million
The county of Humboldt has settled the federal civil rights lawsuit stemming from the 2014 jail death of Daren Borges, agreeing to pay Borges’ family $3.5 million in damages and legal fees, and to make various changes to jail policy. Borges, 42, a homeless, schizophrenic poet and artist, was living in Eureka at the time […]