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23-711: Santa Rita Jail is a county jail located in Dublin , Alameda County , California , and operated by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office . With a design capacity of 3489, Santa Rita is one of the largest jails in the United States and larger than many California state prisons . The jail is adjacent to Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin , on the Camp Parks Reserve Forces Training Area. Santa Rita has one of

46-450: A cannonball through the side of a house and into a minivan in a nearby Dublin neighborhood. The projectile had missed its intended target and instead soared 700 yd (640 m), striking a house and leaving a 10 in (25 cm) hole, before striking the roof of another house and smashing through a window of a parked minivan. List of California county jails California's county jails function like county jails throughout

69-454: A modern decentralized "campus" design, similar to many modern prisons, one-half mile long by one-quarter mile wide. The facility has 18 separate, self-contained housing units, a "core" building containing central booking, release and administration, and a service building containing the laundry, commissary, kitchen and warehouses. Santa Rita is rated to house up to 3,489 people, making it as large or larger than many California state prisons . It

92-402: A problem like Maria?" is repeatedly answered with other questions: "How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?", "How do you keep a wave upon the sand?" and "How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?" These responses assert that a problem like Maria cannot be solved. In the vernacular, this form of rhetorical question is called "rhetorical affirmation". The certainty or obviousness of the answer to

115-477: A question is expressed by asking another, often humorous, question for which the answer is equally obvious. Popular examples include "Do bears shit in the woods?", "Is the sky blue?" and "Is the Pope Catholic?" The hypophora is a hyponym of a rhetorical question, characterized by the speaker posing a question for which is immediately answered by the speaker themself. Examples: “Do you always watch for

138-492: Is located behind the Santa Rita Jail. It has come into the public eye by being featured in many episodes of MythBusters , and named as their #1 favorite location in their Top 12 Favorite Locations special . The MythBusters will often use this bomb range to safely and legally test myths regarding explosions, projectiles, and many other myths that cannot be tested otherwise without endangering civilians, made possible by

161-531: Is required to use a question mark for any question, rhetorical or not. In the 1580s, English printer Henry Denham invented a " rhetorical question mark " (⸮) for use at the end of a rhetorical question; however, it fell out of use in the 17th century. It was the reverse of an ordinary question mark, so that instead of the main opening pointing back into the sentence, it opened away from it. "The effectiveness of rhetorical questions in argument comes from their dramatic quality. They suggest dialogue, especially when

184-618: Is the third largest jail in California and the fifth largest in the United States , and is considered a "mega-jail". An automatic robotic cart system moves all meals, laundry, commissary items, supplies and garbage through the jail, allowing maximal restriction of prisoner movement throughout the facility. A 1.2 megawatt peak-power solar array was installed in Spring 2002 on the roofs of the housing units, supplying nearly one half of

207-470: The California Board of State and Community Corrections were used to determine what constitutes a distinct jail facility for this list. The following counties do not have jails: Rhetorical question A rhetorical question is a question asked for a purpose other than to obtain information . In many cases it may be intended to start a discourse, as a means of displaying or emphasizing

230-573: The Public Safety Realignment Act was signed into law in response to the Supreme Court case Brown v. Plata and the resulting court order to address prison overcrowding in the state. Realignment "shifted responsibility for all sentenced non-violent, non-serious, non-sex offenders from state to local jurisdictions", which decreased California prison populations, increased California county jail populations, and changed

253-512: The United States: they are used to incarcerate people pre-trial , through a trial and sentencing , and for some sentences of commitment. The majority of people incarcerated in California's county jails have not been sentenced (they are pre-trial and have not been convicted of a crime). Historically, time would be served in a county jail for sentences of less than a year, including sentences for misdemeanors and some felonies . In 2011,

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276-486: The highest rates of in-custody deaths for county jails in California, and has been the recipient of numerous lawsuits and class-action lawsuits regarding jail conditions and medical care. As with most jails, the majority of people incarcerated in Santa Rita are in pre-trial detention and have not been convicted of a crime. The original Santa Rita Jail opened in 1947 as a replacement for Alameda's County Prison Farm. It

299-469: The jail had become the county's largest provider of mental health services, and that its inadequate provision of care of inmates constituted a violation of their civil rights. In February 2022, a federal judge approved a settlement calling for improved mental health services and staffing, to the objections of some inmates and advocacy groups. The US Department of Justice would monitor the settlement for six years. The Alameda County Sheriff's Office bomb range

322-587: The jail's power demand during daylight hours. In May 2006, the Chevron Energy Solutions deployed a 1- megawatt fuel cell system that generates 8,000,000  kWh of electricity and 1.4 million British thermal units (410 kWh) of waste heat (50% and 18% of Jail's needs, respectively) from natural gas. Santa Rita Jail became known for dangerous conditions for inmates. At least 68 inmates died between 2011 and 2020, largely from suicides and overdoses. An investigation by KTVU found that for

345-435: The large, open landmass that gave them plenty of room to set their tests up while giving a large distance to stand away from the blasts. In the special episode, Adam Savage praised the flexibility of the bomb range by rhetorically asking "What can't you do there?!" On December 6, 2011, while conducting an experiment on the effectiveness of various projectiles when fired out of a cannon, a MythBusters television crew sent

368-418: The longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it." - The Great Gatsby. This can moreover be a manifestation of an epiphrase , as Daisy had personally asserted her own opinion on her question. Depending on the context, a rhetorical question may be punctuated by a question mark (?), full stop (.), or exclamation mark (!), but some sources argue that it

391-428: The possibility of developing lung cancer, someone could respond with the question, "Who knew?" The question functions as an assertion that the truth of the statement should have been utterly obvious. Rhetorical questions are often used as a metaphor for a question already asked. Examples may be found in the song " Maria " from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music , in which "How do you solve

414-491: The question functions as a negative assertion. It is intended to mean "The Romans have never done anything for us!" When Shakespeare's Mark Antony exclaims, "Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?" it functions as an assertion that Caesar possesses such rare qualities they may never be seen again. ( Julius Caesar , Act 3, scene 2, 257) Negative assertions may function as positives in sarcastic contexts . For example, in response to being informed that smoking can increase

437-422: The speaker both asks and answers them himself, as if he were playing two parts on the stage. They are not always impassioned; they may be mildly ironical or merely argumentative: but they are always to some extent dramatic, and, if used to excess, they tend to give one’s style a theatrical air." -- J.H. Gardiner "Rhetorical questioning is…a fairly conscious technique adopted by a speaker for deliberate ends, and it

460-491: The speaker's or author's opinion on a topic. A simple example is the question "Can't you do anything right?" This question is intended not to ask about the listener's ability but rather to insinuate the listener's lack of ability. A rhetorical question may be intended as a challenge. The question is often difficult or impossible to answer. In the example, "What have the Romans ever done for us?" ( Monty Python's Life of Brian )

483-462: The types and distribution of crimes for which people were serving sentences in county jails. For comparison, in December 2019 there were approximately 71,200 people incarcerated in California county jails (based on average daily population), 124,027 people incarcerated in California state prisons, and 51,923 people on parole in California. Rated capacity and average daily population reports from

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506-506: The years 2014-2019, Santa Rita Jail's death rate was 50% higher than Los Angeles County (13.6 to 8.9 deaths per 1,000 inmates) and was the highest in the Bay Area. The investigation noted that the use of isolated confinement exacerbated mental health issues and may have driven more inmates to suicide. In 2018, inmates filed a lawsuit alleging insufficient mental health care. A US Department of Justice report released April 2021 found that

529-413: Was built on 1000 acres of Camp Shoemaker, a World War II naval base near the current site. By 1983, overcrowding had become an issue, and plans were established for the construction of the current $ 172 million facility, which opened in 1989. Funding for the jail's construction was obtained through state bonds as well as local county matching funds. The current 113-acre (0.46 km) facility is laid out in

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