Christopher Damien
Investigative Reporter at The Desert Sun (Palm Springs, CA)
Investigative Fellow at The New York Times
Local Investigations fellow for @nytimes. Reporter for @MyDesert.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Christopher Damien
The family of a man who died from an overdose in a Sacramento County jail after being left unattended for hours have agreed to a $3.5 million settlement. That man, David Kent Barefield Sr., 55, was dragged across a garage into the jail last May, not given a medical exam despite being visibly ill, handcuffed in a cart while awaiting booking and only offered medical aid in his final minutes, jail footage shows.
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2 months ago |
nytimes.com | Christopher Damien
A Sacramento man suffering from a drug overdose was neglected by a police officer, medical workers and sheriff's deputiesover the course of more than two hoursbefore he died at a county jail last May, according to reports from court-appointed monitors. That man, David Kent Barefield Sr., 55, was among seven detainees the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office reported dying at its facilities last year - and one of three who died at its main jail in the span of about a month.
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Dec 23, 2024 |
nytimes.com | Christopher Damien
The newly released footage shows Mr. Aubrey, with a white sheet draped around his neck, pacing slowly around the cell. He takes pieces of paper to the sink and wets them. He climbs to the camera and covers it with paper. What happened next is not visible; at that point there is only muffled audio. Video footage shows one deputy leaving with a lunch cart at 11:44 a.m., just before Mr. Aubrey covered the camera in his cell.
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Nov 14, 2024 |
pressenterprise.com | Christopher Damien
By Christopher DamienChristopher Damien is reporting about law enforcement in Southern California’s inland and desert communities as part of The New York Times’s Local Investigations Fellowship. Alicia Upton paced the concrete floor of her jail cell. She looked around the cramped quarters. Then she pressed the alert button on an intercom attached to the wall. “What is your emergency?” responded a voice, captured on video footage from a camera in the cell.
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Nov 4, 2024 |
myheraldreview.com | Christopher Damien
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Alicia Upton paced the concrete floor of her jail cell. She looked around the cramped quarters. Then she pressed the alert button on an intercom attached to the wall. “What is your emergency?” responded a voice, captured on video footage from a camera in the cell. It was a deputy about 50 feet away, in the control room of the women’s mental health unit where Upton, 21, was being held.
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In new videos and reports, deputies allowed a man to cover his cell camera and door before finding him hanging. 21 yo woman was ignored in the same jail, similarly taking her life by hanging. More evidence of neglect in one of the nation's deadliest jails: https://t.co/1cxQbMWIkh
RT @latimes: Riverside County: The deadliest year in one of America's deadliest jail systems https://t.co/1txSMixcQk
This is absolutely unacceptable. Angelenos, Californians … everyone should be outraged by this.
It’s an outrage that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department would criminally investigate me as a reporter for doing my job. It’s the kind of action that’s aimed at intimidating journalists from digging into government agencies. (1/2) https://t.co/ktOf7o16iE