Jailed animal rights activist Zoe Rosenberg is being kept in solitary confinement. In exchange for keeping equipment needed as a result of her diabetes, she is kept apart from other inmates. ‘It’s a few days into my jail sentence’, Rosenberg wrote from jail this week, ‘I spend nearly 23 hours a day in a small cell, almost entirely in isolation. When I get to briefly leave, I enter a common area by myself’. A jury found Rosenberg guilty of felony conspiracy and three misdemeanors for taking four abused chickens from the Petaluma Poultry slaughterhouse. She is serving 30 days in jail, 60 days through a jail-alternative program, followed by two years of probation.
PATCH: As animal rights activist Zoe Rosenberg was on her fifth day Monday of a sentence for taking chickens from a Petaluma slaughterhouse, concerns about medical care in the Sonoma County jail were being raised, as well as supporters’ demands that Gov. Gavin Newsom pardon the activist…
Cassie King, the spokesperson for DxE — or Direct Action Everywhere — said the jail allowed Rosenberg to keep her medical equipment needed as a result of diabetes and gastroparesis, which requires her to carry an insulin pump and to wear a feeding tube, but restricted her to remaining alone in her cell because of it. The jail also restricted Rosenberg’s access to glucose, which she needs to treat low blood sugar extremes, King said…
“It’s a few days into my jail sentence,” Rosenberg wrote from jail this week… ‘I spend nearly 23 hours a day in a small cell, almost entirely in isolation. When I get to briefly leave, I enter a common area by myself’…
Rosenberg is isolated because of her medical devices — in exchange for keeping her equipment, she is kept apart from other inmates… The district attorney’s office did not respond immediately to a request about Rosenberg’s medical care. For inmate medical care, Sonoma County contracts with Wellpath, the largest commercial provider of health care in jails and prisons across 37 states.
The company has been hit by 1,400 lawsuits, federal investigations nationwide, and scathing reports over the quality of care in the jails they staff around the Bay Area, including the one where Rosenberg is being held in Santa Rosa…
A jury found Rosenberg guilty of felony conspiracy and three misdemeanors for taking four chickens from the Petaluma Poultry slaughterhouse. A judge on Dec. 3 ordered her to serve 30 days in jail and 60 days through a jail-alternative program — followed by two years of probation. ANGELA WOODALL
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