OAKLAND, Calif. — A San Francisco Bay Area district attorney recalled in the Nov. 5 election filed criminal charges this week against 11 former and current county jail employees in the 2021 in-custody death of a man who was left uncontrolled in him. cell for days.

Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price announced Thursday that felony dependent adult abuse charges have been filed against seven county sheriff’s deputies, two former deputies and two medical employees at the Santa Rita Jail. If convicted, the maximum for each defendant is four years in state prison.

Three of the defendants are also accused of forging documents related to the death of Maurice Monk, 45, who was found unresponsive in his cell in November 2021 after a month in custody.

Price was elected in 2022 on a progressive platform that included holding corrections officials accountable for deaths in custody. It is uncertain whether her successor will pursue the charges after Price was ousted by voters in a rare recall election.

Monk was arrested in October after he was charged with disorderly conduct and refusing to leave a transit bus. He was sent to jail after failing to appear on a court warrant for an earlier and unrelated offense on a transit bus line, her office said.

A lawsuit filed by Monk’s family said footage from jail deputies’ body cameras showed deputies as well as nurses throwing food and medicine into Monk’s cell as he lay. he doesn’t answer for three daysthe San Francisco Chronicle reported.

The county settled the family’s lawsuit for $7 million last year.