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The first time the candidates are going to be at the same event. Family leadership speech for the republicans tomorrow. Jennifer, tell us what you are looking for at this event. Jennifer it could be a bellwether for the early energy in iowa. Bernie sanders has had crowds that rival barack obama. Hillary clinton has gotten a wakeup call. She has ramped up her staff to more than 60 people. She just put down advertising. It will be interesting to see how this translates tonight. Mark huge crowd, they are activist. They care about the Iowa Democratic values. It gives all the candidates a chance to...

Until we have confidence of job training, Youth Development programs, Mental Health, longterm mental, not just the shortterm things we have in place, and longterm housing that is truly affordable and community driven, we are not going to have the kind of success we are looking for. So, i think what we need are these programs need to be investing all of our money into these programs while i agree, again, cjfour ncjthree are deplorable, i dont think again expensive new jail is going to be the answer. Thank you again for taking this so seriously. I know its actually rare for this conversation to ...

Are there presentence because they cannot afford bail. If you or i or our children were in a situation in jail we wouldnt be. We would get out due to the bail process, etc. Only to step up the number programs that are of able to address is very small number. The years that i spent running a jill health service, we spent battling jails overcrowded we are now completely under the she very proud of our efforts and build on those success. Thank you very much. Should you thank you for your work. Thank you. Thank you for your work my name is [inaudible] ive been working in around jails and prisons i...

Then the report came out and the inbetween that the cjc and whatever reporting out. People come to the board of supervisors, different supervisors, different terms is still the same problem. In the Burns Institute report im holding up a copy of it out of 1000 adults in the population for blacks, two of the six at any time of africanamericans were locked up. That means 20. 6 of africanamericans were in county jail at any given time in San Francisco compared to whites who were 1. 9 . We can talk about this panic and brown people because the numbers are not accurately reflected, but what we do kn...

Hi. Im [inaudible]. Im here again in the capacity as the jill groups coordinator. We work with a number of people who are directly the target audience of new jail i guess you could call it. I have a background in Mental Health and general Public Health education. So, i wanted to really commend a lot of the programming that we are he heard about today. The aurora project, a lot of the diversion programs. I think is a really good start, but its important to also point out San Francisco, with gentrification that is undeniable is increasingly hostile to poor people low income people, of all kinds....