Family and friends of a man who died while in the Sacramento County Main Jail in 2024 gathered Thursday to raise questions about his death as well as the deaths of a dozen inmates since then.
Asaiah Gerome Washington, 40, had been at the jail about a month in July 2024 when he and his cellmate were found unresponsive in their cell. The cellmate was revived, but Washington was pronounced dead at the jail. The coroner’s office later determined the cause of death was fentanyl and methamphetamine intoxication.
Washington’s wife, Toni Washington, criticized jail employees for not searching inmates more thoroughly for drugs, and for placing Asaiah in a cell with an inmate who had been caught smuggling drugs into the jail before…