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 talks between the city officials, the community, and the people that is working for the solution. It is an opportunity for that engagement because they are civil servants. We need that connection between the people and civil service. What they did right here is a good example of community interaction. The people need to grab the power back. I am not sure if this is the correct lane. I am on the fence with that. Thank you. Next speaker. In regards to the population in the jail. The sheriff wants to be a bag matest. You have heard the pragmatist. 111 people have been granted release regardless of charges. If they could afford 500,000 bond. We need to talk about those. 40 of the people in the jail are house less, 46 are black. Again, why are the conditions of policing and jailing and lack of Mental Healthcare causing those populations to be targeted. Lets address the root causes, lets not transfer. We have a plan with 72 recommendations. I will read a couple. Create cooperative custody for those homeless but do not need residential treatment. 73 approval. In bed wraparound services. 85 approval. Increase housing capacity for shelter, 92 approval. Create small residential behavioral based centers. 92 jrp approval. What only had 27 jrp approval was the new jail. Only 4 approval sending people outofcounty to alameda county. Today we have heard a lot, and you have talked about this. There are 14 hearings in regards to the jail. We all know the jail needs to close. You are admitted to that. We ask for a commitment to today to take action on that. Thank you. Next speaker. I am shirley leslie, part of the no new sf jail coalition. I have listened for four years. I have been faced with the reality the city has wasted too much by criminalized the most vulnerable and i believe that 850 bryant embodies that. The jail system criminallises the poor, unhoused, people of color and people who need mental and behavioral healthcare. The conditions inside 850 and for loved ones visiting are dehumanizing with violence and fear. This jail population must be reduced and this facility must be closed immediately with no offshoots. We reject relocation, expansion of electronic monitoring, renovation or creating a justice campus. Invest in open Community Run programs, invest in Supportive Housing, support and invest in people. Thank you. Next speaker. I am an immigrant Youth Community organizer with just cause. We know incarceration is not the answer to healing communities. We see the San Francisco jail system representing economic disparities. Weep need to invest in community resources, not jails. I would like to address the proposals for outofcounty transfers, specifically in reference to santa rita jail. They are not ideal. This are unacceptable. The board of supervisors passed legislation to protect immigrant families and individuals. The sheriff has found ways to continue to colluding with ice despite the california values act. He continues to allow ice in nonpublic areas and publishes release dates of prisoners online to enable ice to detain undocumented prisoners upon release. You cant send people to santa rita jail. 850 bryant must be closed the sheriff has over seen the Sheriffs Office for 13 years. In the past five years there are 43 in custody deaths. According to data from the california attorne attorney gen were awaiting trial. The death rate in santa rita is 50 higher than lr county and they are the largest jailer. This is an extreme Public Health issue. We cannot send people where they will die. We ask for pretrial diversion and exhaust all avenues for release rather than incarceration. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. I work with Community Housing partnership. I want to thank you for having this hearing today. The issue today is about safety and how it has been talked about today. Everyone agrees we want a safe San Francisco, but the question is safe for who . Our communities are not just made of people who have never been to jail. Incarcerated people need safety, too. We have had so many hearings expressing the need to divert people from jail. The effectiveness by not jailing people and creative alternatives to jail. I was two years old when the steep started speaking about closing 850 bryant. Here we are today. Today the public is in a different place around the failure of the criminal Justice System and we cant log people up more to uphold justice. It is about adequate housing, it is about providing people with behavioral treatment access, justice is about stopping criminalization of the poor. I am happy to have this hearing about Public Safety. Incarcerated people are part of the public. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. I am joyce. I am a member with senior and disability action. I am here also today to urge you to close 850 bryant immediately. Not to build a replacement jail and not to vote for a plan to rely on electronic monitoring or transferring detainees to santa rita jail. People with disabilities are harmed by the criminal legal system at every step in intersections with the police, local jails and in prisons. More than 50 of People Killed by police have a Mental Health disability. The more beds to fill the more people will be shot by Law Enforcement before they go to jail. 70 of the people in homeless shelters are disabled and using drugs, which are the only medication. They are denied medical care to worsen their health and Mental Health conditions. The top cause of death in jails is suicide. Many of the disabled people in jail are awaiting transfer to the overcrowded hospital. We formed the voluntary First Coalition to expand conservatorships to lead to Police Intervention for disabled people. We oppose behavioral health, judging by the conservatorship five to 10 years. Even then there will be no housing for Outpatient Services to transition into. We approach the Justice Center for the same reasons. Criminalization is to treatment and. Next speaker. Thank you. I am representing district 10 straight out of hunters point. San francisco native and community organizer. Also a member of the no new Jails Coalition for San Francisco. Building a new jail is not a solution. Investing in reallocating funds is what we need. Jails, prisons, de tension facilities are physical structures. People are indirectly affected by the lives of their families. This is a time for Healthy Practices to help the lives of folks impacted directly. I want to add in 1996 where it was for the molition i was visiting the loved one. My loved one is o on the other side of the window. It is disrespectful to have your colleagues to support the folks here fighting in this war for better care, health for the black and brown people of this city. It is time to shift the way San Francisco gets down on taking care of each other. Whether you are in the richest parts of frisco it is time to work toward better healthcare for all of us. We all want to live equally. Thank you. Next speaker. I am a reentry member at the Justice Project, which is transgender intersects Justice Project. I did just get out of prison, and only three months right now. I have been at santa rita, at bryant street, and i want to say, sure it is a state of emergency. What i have seen happen in dade county in florida what hurricane andrew hit, the judge ordered people out of prison. You had a state of emergency, sure. You had people in all these different organizations willing to help. Even the Justice Project in less than two months got me out of Halfway House and gave me a job and placed me in safe housing for transgender out of prison. You have people who are experienced and familiar with the city and organization. They have the resources. Give them the opportunity to take that responsibility and pull together as a community because you have it right before you. Even the Justice Project. What do they do . They put people in hotels, taking the money donated to them and place them in hotels to get them proper placement. Take that millions of dollars for bryant street and put them in hotels and give them resources here. People do for Mental Health services, not homelessness. You can give them counseling even in hotels. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. I am with the senior action. A few things to say. One is that those presentations only the one from the community took us somewhere. All of the other presentations were empty. I didnt see any advance, you know, the plan is in stagnation if we go with that. You want a solution . Safer streets, safer communities. How about redistributing wealth. We live in the ric richest cityn the world. We have so many people eating from garbage. You want to put them in jail just because they dont have money. Just get rid of that. 850 bryant even you guys know, all of you know, even the sheriff, that she doesnt know how to proceed. She knows it is the righty to do. If you want more, think about changing the Justice System because from the presentations i saw today is very white. Only the Community Shows people of color here. Thathat is not acceptable. That is so much diversity. Please change the system and get rid of 850 bryant. Thank you. Next speaker. Just a reminder about board rule 1. 3 and prohibition against applause and other cheering. If you want to show support do so with raised hands or thumbs up or down. Keep the audible interruptions to zero, please. Thank you. I am a native from San Francisco who spent teen years between hospitals and locked psychiatric facilities. My Close Friends were incarcerated. I am about to graduate from medical school. The communities affected by the violence in our struggle for help, dignity we need to demand immediate closure without a new jail, if it is called a jail or Mental Health facility. No transfers to santa rita or any other jail incounty or out. Incancersation worsenses the mental illness. It is a risk factor for chronic diseases for asthma. Formally incarcerated individuals are 10 times more likely to be homeless. Lack of housing is a major threat to any health condition. Jail is a source of unthinkable stress and trauma, which fuel disease. We need to invest in expanding appropriate Mental Health services, hiring and training local Community Members who lived experience that resonated with the jail population, up routing the way the Police Department is run. Holding the large tech corporations accountable for the harm they are creating for those here before them and supportable housing. We need to heal our communities and not make them sick. Had kenny not been in cars cars incarcerated he could be in my position today. I am jordan davis. I am a d6 resident. I have about a couple hours ago the vice chair of the working group and i say close 850 bryant and dont create a Mental Health jail or a rainbow jail and dont send people to the santa rita death by midnight release center. I am a formerly home less transgender wom. Woman. 850 bryant does not create real Public Safety. It only serves to cage back and brown folks. We need real living wage jobs, Supportive Housing outside of cooperative housing and other life affirming programs. That keeps us safe not fucking warehousing people. Most people are pretrials. We need to get rid of every bullshit homeless law since fine teen was mayor. I did my duty and voted on tuesday. I rode i wrote in under sheriff to close it. I will pause the speakers time and remind everyone we are less than 100 feet away from a polling place right now. There is a prohibition in the law against electio elections fe microphone. Continue. Listen to no new jail coalition. Redirect funds to life affirming services and close the jail. Next speaker. I am andrea, social worker in San Francisco and resident of d8. It is the height of incompetence after 6 years. Hearing we failed to adopt the needs of individuals. I sat on the working group for months advocating for Public Health programming, nones of which was created or implemented. We are led to criminalization. There is no body of evidence to support course of treatment leading to decreased poverty, homelessness or substance use. Let me provide you aframe of reference. We do have local data of effective policy. The Mental Health services act which funds Mental Health, Substance Abuse services, vocational services, capital facilities and Information Technology is right here in San Francisco. Individuals at the programs experience the following. There was an 88 of decrease in arrest within the first year. Psychiatric. In adults 67 decrease in days of homelessness. Arrests 53 to 7 per 100. Mental health 79 . This was 10,125 per jail. Saying this is the cheapest option is false. We liver in the city with the live with the highest concentration of the millionaires. We should be able to Fund Effective programs at the drop of a hat. We have a mayor and supervisors representing the interests of those. Next speaker. I am ed de hernandez to support no new jails. I have been to county jail 4. The building is seismically unsafe marked for demolition since 1996. I remember the faces and i am here to be the voice. The employees and visitors dont want to die there. They want to know what the hold up is and who is responsible in the event of an earthquake. I am here to reject the mayors inadequate proposal and to commit to closing down the jail. No new jail construction and to reject transfers outside of county. Thank you. Hello. I am melissa hernandez. I join comrades in rejecting the plan to keep the jail open two more years. She announced this on the 30 Year Anniversary of the earthquake. This is slated for demolition for 20 years. We must close it now. Once we close it we have an incredible opportunity. We as the community can demand investment in the collective wellbeing instead of maintaining cages elsewhere. The system much incarceration is not working. The great news we can do better if we rethink incarceration. A large majority of those held are not convicted of crimes. Why are we keeping them behind bars . I urge each of you to be brave and take this moment to set the city in the right direction. One that does not double down on the system that tears families apart and puts people in cages and invests in uplifting communities. We are purr pet waiting the same problems. Mental Health Crisis and people of color is inconsionable. 56 of those in the james are black. It is worth noting sending people outside of San Francisco can put them in danger of deportation. We must oppose any plan that does not include transferring people out of the county. There are lives at stake please invest in communities not cages. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. I am the district 10 Youth Commissioner. I could easily say everything that everybody else just said. That would be kind of annoying. The transfertive Justice Committee supports closing 850 bryant. The city should restore harm done in communities. If you think about the idea of jail its, it really doesnt make sense to put the hurt and damaged people in one place and expect them to heal each other. You have got to support them in doing that. With that said we do not support the displacement or pushing them out of the city, putting them in other counties as said before, and we would hope that the effort be centered around community and helping them get to a place where they can live a sustainable life in the city they grew up in and hope they can stay here and live alive that makes sense and push them away from the needs or wants to commit crimes. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. I am austin. I am the Youth Commission staff. We wanted to come through to show that we create change not by thinking of how good everything works for the privileged folks. We think about change in how it treats the people on the margins, undocumented folks, black and brown folks and transand gender, nonconforming folks. We cannot forget what happened with the gladiator case against the sheriff which supervisor walton called for a hearing on accountability of the Sheriffs Department about how are people currently being treated. Right now we are thinking about longstanding promises and this is the problem we need to address right here. You will have the position and power to do that. Please listen to the plans and recommendations made already. Thank you. N