Santa Rita Jail

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Santa Rita Prison is a county jail located in Dublin, Alameda County, California adjacent to Camp Camp Reserve Reserves Training Area, and operated by the Alameda County Sheriff Office. Santa Rita houses the majority of those arrested in Alameda County, which occupies much of the San Francisco Bay Area and covers the cities of Oakland, Berkeley, San Leandro and Alameda. Santa Rita is not the only prison facility in the vicinity as the Federal Penitentiary, Dublin is located in Camp Camp area.

The original Santa Rita Prison was built in 1947 at a World War II training base near the current location. In 1983, density has become a problem, and plans are being made for the construction of the current $ 172 million facility, which opened in 1989. Funding for prison construction is obtained through state bonds as well as local district co-finances.

The 113-acre facility is currently laid out in a modern decentralized "campus" design, similar to many modern prisons, half a mile long as wide as a quarter of a mile. The facility has 18 separate and self-contained houses, a "core" building that contains reservations, discharges, and central administration, and a service building containing laundry, a communal kitchen, a kitchen and a warehouse. Santa Rita is the third largest jail in California and the fifth largest in the United States, and is considered a "mega-prison", which is set to hold 4,000 detainees at one time, making it as big or bigger than many California state prisons. Perhaps reflecting the Bay Area community it serves, the prison incorporates some modern technological advances, and is mentioned by the Sheriff's Office as one of the most modern facilities in the world. The automated robotic wagon system removes all food, clothing, commissioner goods, supplies and junk through the prison, enabling maximum restriction of prisoner movements throughout the facility. A 1.2 megawatt solar power plant was installed in spring 2002 on the roofs of residential units, supplying nearly half of the prison electricity demand during the day. This solar array is the largest roof array as in the western hemisphere. In May 2006, Chevron Energy Solutions deployed a 1-megawatt fuel cell system that generated 8,000,000 kWh of electricity and 1.4 MMBtu of waste heat (50% and 18% of Jail needs, respectively) of natural gas.

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Bomb range

The Sheriff's Alameda County Sheriff's office network is located behind the Santa Rita Prison.

It has come to the public eye by being featured in many episodes of MythBusters, and is named as their # 1 favorite location in their Top 12 Favorite Locations special. The MythBusters will often use this range of bombs to safely and legally examine the myths about explosions, projectiles, and many other myths that can not be tested in any other way without endangering civilians, made possible by large open fields that give them plenty of room to organize testing them. while providing a great distance to stand away from the explosion. In a special episode, Adam Savage praised the flexibility of the range of the bomb by rhetorically asking "What can not you do there ?!"

On December 6, 2011, while experimenting on the effectiveness of various projectiles when fired from a cannon, a television crew of MythBusters sent a cannon ball through the side of a house and to a nearby minivan. Neighborhood Dublin, California. The projectile had lost its target and soared 700 times (640 m), attacked a house and left a 10 (25 cm) hole, before crashing into another roof and smashing through a parked minivan window.

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Cultural reference

The ultimate part of the Tom Wolfe novel A Man in Full (1998) takes place in Santa Rita Prison, but the facility depicted in this novel is a pre-1989 prison that uses a stylish World War Building barracks of era II.

The Oakland-based hip-hop group The Coup has a song called "Santa Rita Weekend" on their 1994 album, Genocide & amp; Juice .

In October 1967, singer Joan Baez, her mother, and nearly 70 other women were arrested and imprisoned in Santa Rita Prison for taking action during an anti-draft demonstration. In prison, where Baez spent eleven days (according to Baez's memoir, he had been sentenced to 45 days, but prison officials suddenly released him earlier, when they received word that a press conference was being planned for his scheduled release date), he met David Harris, an anti-draft activist he will eventually marry.

M.C. Hammer was arrested February 21, 2013 in Dublin, California for allegedly blocking an officer in performing his duties and refusing an officer (in accordance with "terminating and identifying" the law). Hammer claims he is a victim of a racial profile by police. He stated an officer withdrew his weapon and randomly asked him: "Are you in parole or probation?" Hammer stated that when he handed over his ID, the officer got in the car and tried to pull it out. Police in Dublin, east of Oakland, said Hammer was in a vehicle with outdated registrations and he was not the registered owner. "After asking Hammer who the registered owner was, he became very argumentative and refused to answer officer questions," police spokesman Herb Walters wrote in e-mails to CNN. Hammer is already booked and released from Santa Rita Prison. The date of the hearing is scheduled and the police until then decide to make a claim. Hammer tweeted that he was not bitter and considering what happened "a teachable moment." [1] [2] [3] [4]