A man who was having an overdose at the Martinez Detention Facility was revived by Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputies Tuesday morning.
The Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that deputies were notified at about 7:10 a.m. that the 40-year-old man was unconscious in the facility’s sally port, which is an extended, secure entryway.
The man had been arrested by the San Pablo Police Department before being taken to the county jail. Deputies administered two doses of Narcan, which is used to prevent opioid-related overdoses.
Contra Costa Health Services medical staff responded and provided additional doses of Narcan. The man was taken to recover at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in Martinez. He was later discharged, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Why revive him?
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Because it was the “human” thing to do.
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I can smell your rotten soul.
Exit- why care about someone who doesn’t care about themselves or society?
Oh come on!
How are criminals going to stand trial or serve their sentence if they’re dead?
You gotta keep ’em alive to pay their debt to society.
Well if doing the right thing isn’t enough for you. How about to save the county money for the inevitable lawsuit for an in custody death?
Even if San Pablo PD & the S/O were totally exonerated there will be a balancing point between paying a token amount to settle the lawsuit vs the cost of defending against the lawsuit.
In my day it was about 10K but you can probably double that now since I’m sure he was just about to turn his life around and would have eventually discover the cure to Covid.
Oakland paramedic for 31 years here. Save the county the cost of a trial and incarceration. They are in jail because they are criminals and a danger to the community.
He was later discharged, not taken back into custody. Catch and release these criminals. Great job!
“Discharged” means discharged from the medical facility. It does NOT mean “released” from custody. (I have idea whether he remains in custody; it’s possible that he posted bail or was released on his own recognizance. The article does not provide enough information to determine custodial status.)
So, the humane thing to do without question is to revive the drug addict. I wonder how many times he has been revived in the past with Narcan? I know a Paramedic in San Francisco who told me there are usually about 50-100 addicts that have been revived 10+ times. She told me after about 10 to 15 times they don’t see them anymore. There is only so much one can do when treatment is refused over and over again.
So was he a prisoner or not? And how did he get the drugs while incarcerated? If he was indeed a prisoner!
It sounds like he was in the vehicle sallyport waiting to be brought into the intake area to be booked. So he was not in SO custody yet.
We have plenty of open land in the state. Put all the drug addicts there to feed their monster and die.
The big picture is China and Mexico. In the old days before woke days they would be doing enough to declare war on. Now we just keep our borders open for them and buy their goods and play basketball for them. That’s Progress.