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Speak, they are welcome to. And ill sort of reiterate the speakers have two minutes. We ask you state your first and last name clearly and speak into the microphone. If you have a written state, leave it with our files. You have to avoid repetition of the previous statements. Sucati shaw, sarah lee, jordan davis, roma guy, alexander post, Steven Naylor, Courtney Hansen, diana black, jose bernall, megan swartz and if folks could line up at the right side of the chamber from your perspective. Mega...

And to represent the nonew jail sf coalition. We heard from the sheriff there arent any alternatives except to send people out of county and thats not true. Theres a peoples vision to closing a 50 bryant and we will be going over that right now. And just a little bit of background, we are Community Organization and Community Members, folk whos are formally incarcerated people who sense 2015 hav2015 who have been calln the city of San Francisco to shut down at 50 bryant immediately. We represent ...

We have people incarser rated. The worst thing i would want for anything to make the situation of my people worse. I dont know if closing 850 bryant down will make it harder for a mother to have access to her child that is incarcerated, right . I want to make one thing clear, too. You know, people talk about the criminal element. I dont like it either. I am black. Blacks dont get along with the killers any better either, right . I am on the fence until i find out more information. We need more t...

We heard from the sheriff there arent any alternatives except to send people out of county and thats not true. Theres a peoples vision to closing a 50 bryant and we will be going over that right now. And just a little bit of background, we are Community Organization and Community Members, folk whos are formally incarcerated people who sense 2015 hav2015 who have been calln the city of San Francisco to shut down at 50 bryant immediately. We represent more than 80 organizations and institutions th...

Individuals and much better able to help prevent suicide and video better interactions with the inmates another county jail 4 and 6 inmates have limited access to give him r gym and experience experience helps to depression there is no treatment room staff needs a place to chart privately with the people and a phone they can call for referrals making sure that individuals that are incarcerated transition in a healthy way to Community Programming a place to say store their confidential materials ...

Program we cant take any more clients and put out of our county jail system. Supervisor i cant speak to that ill redirect it. As it relates specific to the matter of pretrial drefrgs or diversion their funding stream one of the things ill point out will young from the pretrial diversion will be here to speak in detail about that topic but rest assured im sure theyre operating at full capacity and their definitely operating at full capacity and if we decrease the funds they could take on more inm...

Said he would back off on the 40 million jail rebuild if the population dropped below one thousand inmates so the Pretrial Diversion Program the Mental Health programs in the community with the leadership and the Substance Abuse could continues the trend of reduction i know the Controllers Office has mentioned it is leveling off but really San Francisco value type of programs that can help us reduce the population im interested as this move forward while the iron is hot before the august 28th de...

Alternatives did you examine how many what the reduction of beds would be if we for example doubled the funds for a pretrial diversification or Diversion Program we cant take any more clients and put out of our county jail system. Supervisor i cant speak to that ill redirect it. As it relates specific to the matter of pretrial drefrgs or diversion their funding stream one of the things ill point out will young from the pretrial diversion will be here to speak in detail about that topic but rest ...

NEW YORK — People held in New York City jails continue to have trouble getting their votes counted, according to a coalition of groups pressing the city for improvements. With Presidential Primary Day on Tuesday, the Vote in NYC Jails Coalition sent a letter to the City Council calling for a hearing over the fact that many fewer votes cast from the jails are counted compared to absentee ...