San Francisco’s County Jail No. 2, in SoMa, had extremely limited access to hot water for all of January, according to a half-dozen incarcerated people and one jail staff member.
As a result, they said, many people stopped taking showers, exacerbating a feeling of stress and filth in an understaffed county jail system that has been plagued by tumultuous conditions.
“We are aware of the concerns raised regarding hot-water access,” wrote Tara Moriarty, a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office. “We take these complaints seriously.”…