Two San Francisco County jails were locked down over the weekend because of increasing assaults of deputies and other staff by inmates at the facilities, officials said. Since late March, seven jail staffers have been injured in altercations with the incarcerated people they were hired to oversee, said Tara Moriarty, a spokesperson for the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office. "Some of these assaults have resulted in serious injuries," Moriarty said in a news release on Saturday. "The lockdown went... Read this story
