SFGTV June 12, 2014
Thank you. Good morning, supervisors. Good morning. I am here today to support the sheriff and his effort to reduce the cost of these collect calls. We provide the representation to 23,000 people a year and 83 percent of the people that are charged are below the federal Poverty Level in San Francisco and the reality is, as the sheriff said, it is if the families that are getting gouged because the inmates for the most part have no money and no resources when they are in custody. And so it is the families who are getting these bills. And it is heart breaking to see. And i have seen this over th...