Addiction can be fatal in San Diego County jails

San Diego City Beat

The last time Shaunda Brummette saw her son, Daniel Sisson, it was in a Vista courtroom late in the afternoon of June 23, 2011. Sisson, a sandy-haired 21-year-old who'd grown up surfing North County beaches, was there to answer to a drug-possession charge; Brummette went with him to the hearing. Sisson had been arrested the week before and posted bail, so he and his mom assumed the court appearance would be routine—he'd plead not guilty and wait for his next hearing.

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