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She struggles every month to pay for the bus to come and visit her children and to bring the grandchildren to visit their fathers at the jail. And she struggles for diapers, she struggles for daycare for them, and the idea that we would charge anything less than just anything more than a Small Service fee feels really predatory and we want you to know about that and we are there to try to be sure that family cans care for each other and stay connected through the crisis of an incarceration, thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please . Good morning. My name is alexander and i am an organizer with inaudible and me myself on previously incarcerated and my partner right now is serving a sentence in the federal prison. And just by being a partner of someone who is inside, i know first hand, how expensive it can be to take care of the loved one who is incarcerated. And the fees that are being put so that you can put money on someones com ....
Helped make history that we were the first county, Sheriffs Department, in the united states, to dramatically reduce phone rates, even though some attention has been placed on the federal level. What, i think, many do not know in the general public, in the world of consumer activism is that those utility and Retail Industries that provide services to the prison and jail systems, throughout this country, are virtually unregulated and having an unregulated corporate industry being welcomed by federal state prison systems or county jail systems, makes for a haven, where the express goal of generating revenue or profit has been done so on the backs of poor people. And this has been the practice for decades throughout the united states. And yet, i think that there is not been enough of a nexus in looking at recidivism rates and the inability of families or loved ones of th ....
Bottom line is mr. Herrera as i talked about this oofng evening hid funds he was receiving from friends of the library and gifts he knew he had to report and we had to take him to the f bbc in sacramento and find him in violation and hes a convicted perjurer and said he got nothing when he got 5,000 a year and he lied to your faces and you dont seem to be worried about that at all. He told you this isnt a First Amendment issue and its always been from the 150 word summaries they started six years ago to telling people they werent allowed to talk about certain things at Library Commission meetings to our criticism of the financial relationship with the friends and with holding documents and using the public position as city librarian to violate the law and with holding documents for more than two years. Hi t i had to go to the superintendent of records twice and found in ....
Excellent. I want to make sure that you have these in front of you. Also f it helps, i would like to. There is a story also in todays San Francisco chronicle that highlights our ongoing reforms on the exorbadant cost that the families who are incarcerated have to pay and this contract before you is step two of an ongoing menu of reforms that my administration is pursuing before this committee. Not that long ago, you all helped make history that we were the first county, Sheriffs Department, in the united states, to dramatically reduce phone rates, even though some attention has been placed on the federal level. What, i think, many do not know in the general public, in the world of consumer activism is that those utility and Retail Industries that provide services to the prison and jail systems, throughout this cou ....