The union representing San Francisco’s deputy sheriffs has demanded assistance from the California National Guard to solve a critical staffing shortage in the county’s jails.

The demand, in a letter to the sheriff, the mayor and the president of the board of supervisors, cited escalating prisoner violence and injuries to deputies and civilians who work in the jails.

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