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Rifs. Just to give you an idea of the scope of what we are doing. Approximately 1100 people come out of jail from our program. This time we are targeting somewhere around 1500 cases. Prior to the last 3 or 4 years, the data that is now coming in, recidivism is around 6 or 7 percent, failure to appear rate or people to appear in court is lower. They are walking people out of jail. Weve just come out of a difficult 45 years and that is budget years with a lot of social services being cut and really at the end of the day when you are talking about it and talking about housing and talking about em...

Because if the Constitutional Rights can find to incarcerate, they can talk about bail. I think what is so dangerous about that moment and it came to a surface in the bail reform act of 1984, the federal law, the birth of preventative detention which one thought was clearly unconstitutional and then became a public good that changed the whole view of a system. Now we live in a justice preemptive justice, but they will commit other crimes in the future. I would say if we all now agree or at least many of us agree with Justice Kennedy that the result has been a prison system that is barbaric tha...

Services and thats really how it wraps into what we do. Before i get to miss dewint, i want to give professor simon a chance to say a few words. Im wondering professor if you can context lies this discussion historically and whether or not there has ever been a large or successful movement in this state towards the elimination of money bail . Now you are going stump me by starting off with an empirical question i cant answer. First im very honored to be here with plenty of officials. I have tenure so let me be blunt. We are speaking about building a system which we call mass incarceration. We ...

Percent. Im wondering if you are tell us what the percentage is in San Francisco jail and im wondering if you can tell us about the sheriffs power to control the pretrial population . First of all, thank you for public defender jeff in an allowing us to participate in your 10th justice summit and also in recognizing the important anniversary. Our statistics in the city of San Francisco are higher. 75 percent of our jail population is a pretrial felony population. I think you have to put some numbers in context as to who is our inmates in San Francisco city county jails. The population demograp...

I think you pretty much took my entire speech when he mentioned the word cbo. Unfortunately, i think it is, i think this is something both sides of the aisle, this is something bipartisan we kind of struggled with right now is we are kind of living in an arrow cliff. It is one cliff after the other after the other. The debt ceiling or the sequester or the sgr cliff. Does congressional staffers, im sure debbie can attest to, we are constantly living in his temporary environment because we have to. That is unfortunate your we would all like to take some time and do a deep dive into deep policy t...