This charger you can see the average daily population from 19802014. You can see since 93 theres been a slow decline in the jail population. However, over the past five years is been a very steep decline. However, i think thats a little misleading referred many times say the job operation is been declining very quickly. I dont think we will continue doing it hard into the future . The reality is, over the past 3. 5 years as in a couple major policy shifts, vastly seeing the joe population has flattened out. The chart here shows the Monthly Average daily population from 20 weight2014. The blue shaded eight episodes the impact estate realignment on the joe population and the line is joe population as an estate realignment. The point awake from the site visibly that you can see on the left side theres a steep to climb in the joe populist but in 2012 we can see a leveling out going on there. Looking even more closely, this is the daily joke out from 2014. We can see the joe population main very flat over the first 10 months of the year and of course proposition 47 passed in november which downgraded a number of felonies to misdemeanors we saw a drop in the joe population of 100150 folks. So the joe population has really remained flat with pass through but five years activities policy shifts and actually, in 2015 we seen an upward tick in the joe populated the jail population is been moving up. So when their comments if we had included 2015 data in our forecast of protest would be lower, this is not necessarily the case because i mention were were seen in 2015 is an upward trend in the joe population. We present our forecast into sinners the real quick question of whether not county jail six can be used. If county jail six can be used we forecast we may not need the jail at all. If, however, county jail cannot be used, then we would need a jail between 120393 beds in 2020. Its important note, a replacement jail of the size between 120 and 393 beds would represent a 5386 reduction from the hall of justice jails. An 1830 reduction in the jail did talk about contraction in the jail system. As i mentioned in the last five, the big question about county jail six. I know lots of others have spoken about in todays wont bore you making you hear me speak about it, but i think the key issue is that whether not we can safely house highsecurity inmates in this the so did you contain image on the lower left county jail six is up 372 bed facility and san bruno. Its entirely dormitory housing. Theres no sales in there whatsoever. The shards of honor so strongly only minimumsecurity inmates can safely be housed there. Is that what other notices proviso that suggestively some medium security inmates could be housed there. This area the board of supervisors would like more information moving forward will be happy to investigate that in the coming months. Thats all i happen i would add one final comment which is that today theres been a lot of discussion about the alternatives that may reduce the joe population as part of our forecast we spoke with many different criminal justice partners but this plan programs and policies. Its important to note actually reduce those jail population with those policies you have to await some other plan programs and policies that may push the population upward. What is been namely the plan hiring of hundreds of new Police Officers in the coming year. That could have it upward impact on the joe population. As a mentions alternatives without it outweighed the population did am happy to answer any questions you have. Thank you. We appreciate you speaking at two times speed. Notice. And our continued work with poor comptrollers office. This is been great information. Thanks we have our final presenter. Good afternoon, chairperson emac. Supervise. My name is charles harris. Im with public works are not speaking the capacity per se. Instead i am representing brian strong from Capital Planning was away on vacation. In appreciation of other marks than offered by previous speakers, and in appreciation of the time, but i like to do is set aside the presentation that i put before you because i think it was substantially addressed by the prior speakers, especially chief freeman. What i would instead like to do is offer you what i hope is some valuable background in regard to the planning that has occurred for this project. In 2006 with the initiation of the capital plan, the jail replacement was first broached. In year 200708 we debuted the justice facilities improvement program. This program is a strategy to replace the entirety of the hall of justice. We define a strategy by withdrawing or vacating the hall of the department [inaudible] is a program that gained momentum through the passage of earthquake Safety Response bonds. We have already taken Police Headquarters away from the hall as well as Southern District station. We are intending to withdraw the office of chief medical examiner from the hall in fiscal year 1718. We are under way with the planning of the Traffic Company and Forensics Division for the Police Department project and the project will withdraw those two elements were aspects from the hall in fiscal year 19 and 20. What will remain effective 2020 would sensibly be District Attorney and probation and police investigations. The matter possibly of jail replacement is pending. So, the momentum to draw folks out of the hall is underway and substantially so. Em mission that upon their departure from everyone from the hall we would demolish the west wing and make it available to the civic for superior courts replacement building. Upon that commitment from the state the realize asian of that facility, they would then move from what is the east wing where they currently reside into their new building and then we would presumably demolish that east wing. Creating a plaza or public space among the different buildings that would continue at that location. So, i just thought important to give you a larger sense of the intent in regard to the hall of justice replacement and certainly am available to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. Thank you. I dont see any further questions. I just want to reiterate, i dont think anyone on this board disagrees with this statement that jail three and four are completely out of whack and that we shouldnt have anyone in those two facilities that i think we all agree with that. I think the question is what do we put in its place . What does the data show us in terms of the trends that we as a city and country are taking around mass incarceration, wages are moving away from realizing not only is it incredibly expensive and burdensome for taxpayers, but it doesnt even necessarily make our cities the community safer. So, rather than think about this moment is an opportunity to expand rebuild the jail, i think the better way to look at it is an opportunity for us to rethink our jail system. That is what our hearing is here today and this discussion will obviously continue at least for the next year. At this time, id like to open up to public comments. We actually have speaker cards. I appreciate your and easy as him to speak it im going to call the first 10 cards and if you can line up and if you are in an overflow prestart heading over to the committee room. I have rev. Glenda houck, etc. Etc. Rev. Thomas thank you for being here. Im the founder and for 17 years for the safe house for homeless women. We are one of the cbos wizard alternative to incarceration. The majority of our residents have a long criminal record, but they now wish to transform their lives, escaping poverty, addiction homelessness, danger, and prostitution. We are alarmed by the growing numbers of women who come to us who have Mental Health problems, including head trauma, recurring seizures, bipolar, hallucinations severe dissociative disorder. Ptsd paralyzing anxiety and depression and drug addiction. Also, what ive not heard mentioned here today is we have women come to us who have significant developmental disability. The women who come to us in majority has suffered longterm incest and other child abuse. The majority have been on the street since they were an average of 14 years old. We need we offer a conference of 18 month old unit and education program. Including therapy, education, dental care, job readiness, many management, nutrition, Substance Abuse and selfdefense and we do this at less than two thirds of the cost it would be we would encourage people woman in jail. I invite you, please, to remind you rather, San Francisco once had a network of boarding residences for mentally ill people who do not need to be institutionalized number but who do need safe housing with minimal support to remain compliant, wellnourished [inaudible] thank you. By the way, i hate cutting anyone off, especially reverends. I apologize for doing it just want i know we have a lot of speakers, to make sure we get through before folks have to go. I like to see my position to dr. Kerry does i apologize. Yes. You can come up afterwards but yes dr. Cooper was on my list. Thank you. Hello. , supervised. Thank you for the careful consideration to this important issue. My name is terry cooper. Im a psychiatrist. I the community practice. My professor at the right instance. I was a consultant to Progress Foundation and connections a Collaborative Program and San Francisco those very successful. It is a shame in our nation in a population over jails and prisons has multiplied at least sevenfold since 1970s. Meanwhile, the proportion of prisoners with serious Mental Illness is actually been rising. We have essentially institutionalized people with Mental Illness moving them from the state hospitals to the jails and prisons another way to say that weve criminalized Mental Illness. The National Sheriffs association and Treatment Advocacy Center published a report showing that 10 times as many people with serious Mental Illness are in jails and prisons as in our hospitals. One response to the problem is to build a Mental Health jail. As you know, los angeles is also considering that option. Behavioral Health Prisons are in a vote. California has one. Work on is proposing. This approach is foolhardy. For many reasons. Jails and prisons necessarily involve a culture of punishment that is very damaging for people with Mental Illness. Theres a basic in psychology. People change their behavior in response to rewards, not punishment. Jails and prisons are set up actually as punishment systems. Another important pencil is that people with Mental Illness will not improve the medications alone. They need to be talked to. They need psychotherapy, group therapy, and social revocation, which San Franciscos many fine programs. The medications are one part of a conference of treatment plan, but of medication alone to be the entire plan their very badly lost. Usually, the patients become subdued because they are drugs. They also become obese and with less. This list. In every public initiation local government and the federal government that im aware of, new programs are devised and funded then after a while interest wanes and funding and the budgets are cut. A program deteriorates. What my concern is about a Mental Health jail is that after the judge of ipod as i thought i was your first bout in fact that was your second go. I do have to ask you to finish your sentence. We may call you back up afterwards so you clearly have a lot of expertise on this issue but just for the sake of making sure to get through. Feel free to complete her sentence because i cut you off just to let me hurry through. Complete the sentence the tone of his devotion and Service Scope very good diversion programs. Connections is one. Thank you. Was hoping you would fit. I appreciate you being here, dr. Cooper. Thank you. The need for alternatives to the jail is an integral part of the whole system of criminal justice. Tinkering around the edges is not going to work at this time. But, first, i want to especially thank you president breed, supervisor kim, for spearheading the continuance of this hearing. Your high level and informed leadership is both recognized and appreciated. Thank you chairman yee and supervisor christiansen for your openness to hear this continuance today. Three years ago us medical associate just a lease riley, the setting hiv for women in semper cisco discovered that the greatest risk to hiv and homelessness for women in San Francisco was one experience in our jail. One. Not 10, not three. One. For men, the highest risk factor for both jail and homelessness was unemployment. We need to Pay Attention to this because this kind of study connected most of the docs we need to address today and problem solve through policy and public investment. One more. I want us to recognize and is already been addressed is the hayward burns study that was presented at reentry within the last 10 days because it takes us more deeply into our core systemic issues. Racial bias and the link to criminal justice in the jails in the criminal Justice System. Especially, as it addresses the issue of africanamericans and latinos and the Public Defenders Office [inaudible] basically safer blacks and latinos, every issue and every alternative and every service be it mentally ill or what ever, needs to cut and below that racially. Thank you. Thank you for all your work on this issue. Good afternoon, supervised. Sharon johnson. Thank you president breed and supervisor kim for holding this hearing and supervisor yee and supervisor christiansen for being that this wonderful public forum. I want to unless retired City Employee i work as a former executive director for the that is of women. In those early days we did a program coming to the sender was taking a look at at risk youth. At that point we saw why the position not be rebuilt but read them. It is today 2015 to say those words werent heated. It is very wonderful to see that you are we thinking about what is happening to our people that are incarcerated him a especially those with Mental Health issues. Im glad that you are thinking to do what is right no matter what because they are people who deserve to be successful products of our society and not just to be jailed because people think they need to be jail. I i think of your time and i look forward to positive results for those people in jail. Thank you. Good morning. I am the sony manager the Public Defenders Office and a member of the public defenders for Racial Justice. I am appreciate this opportunity to supervisor came matching, we think, this conversation where we are rethinking the jail system. I want to point to one fact reflects the deep irony in our jail system right now. That is, in 2013 statistics, which is that on average, over 86 of the average daily population that year, and i think its about the same now, is presentence, please sentence which means the people incarcerated are actually presumed innocent. Its a deep irony that so many of the people that are in jail are people that are presumed innocent and often times theres an offer made that if you plead guilty you can get out of jail. I think we want to reflect on what that says about our system. While youre innocent that is our people should be in jail if you plead guilty you can leave. As the population of San Francisco want to people to plead guilty because theyve detailed investigation with her attorney where they say the evidence is such that we recommend you plead guilty, or do we want a system where people are pleading guilty merely to get home to kids, to get to job opportunities, to get to Educational Opportunities . Is that a fair system and fundamentally it isnt. So, the best way to avoid the problem is to put more effort into releasing people preadjudication, pretrial so they can effectively work on their cases rather than it just being something thats forcing guilty pleas. Thank you. Thank you so much for coming, steve. Good morning, supervisors. My name is Joshua Wilson with the San Francisco [inaudible] member of the Racial Justice committee as well as social survey that was a documentary on pbs. I think was called stranger by another name. That essentially track is that after the emancipation proclamation slavery did not and im here to say slavery is alive and well in San Francisco. Once sick and tired of having this conversation. Nothing is being done. In 1994 the report that came out that said africanamerican men in San Francisco were twice as likely to be incarcerated in San Francisco than anywhere in the us and at that time, 10 times more likely to be incarcerated in a apartheid south africa. 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 know we can come by people at 20 presented by this board of supervisors what will history say about you . In any event talk is cheap. Action is priceless. We know we got the numbers right now. At this point, how may more black and brown lives do if the pile of here . How many reports do we have depth before something is done . Enough is enough. Action is priceless. Thank you so much. We appreciate all the work that the Public Defenders Office is doing. Thank you so much for both being here. Thank you for holding this hearing. [inaudible] practice for Public Safety but we need your leadership now more than ever to push the metal doesnt perform to our needs to be an San Francisco. Specifically, i ask that you direct the San Francisco department of public house along with col. Justice partners to come up with a competent plan for alternative programs and policies to this single capital option but jailed replacement facility has been brought before you. This board has authorized 10 million the planning and development of a jet. You have been requested to authorize 14 million more and get this board is not authorized a single dollar were directed a single city staff person to look at alternatives. I ask that you do that. Second, i ask that you direct the apartment of public works and the surest apartment to immediately decommission and permanently close cjthree. Its been empty thanks to the sheriff since 2013. We all agree its unsafe. Every projection shows we will not need those were 26 beds and ask that you take action today. Last, i ask that you immediately inquire to the City Administrators Office and the Sheriffs Department about any contracting out of current jail beds in San Francisco. We do not want to become a city that rents beds to other jurisdictions were trying to displace responsibility for their overreliance on incarceration. Specifically, i ask that you inquire any utilization of cjfour. Weve all determine its unsafe. If its unsafe for people being held under the superior courts it just as unsafe for anybody being held here through a contract with another jurisdiction. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for all your work as well on this issue. Good afternoon. My name is this is layla and will be speaking together. Good afternoon like i said my name is [inaudible] up your mentor with project one family staff member and a child formally frustrated parent. Although i love my city, and barely thoroughly disgusted my city is even considering a new jail. I like to tell people like me and my fellow children of incarcerated parents that we are seven times more likely to be incarcerated because her parents are were were. To me, this jail build is a cold and calculated way to plan which bed, sell, or me or my fellow children of incarcerated parents will be sitting in. How this money go for Reentry Services they wont be in another jail . Area, the education of children of incarcerated parents for years of college more programming so we no longer have to be a statistic that the Justice System needs. Not in our name we build a new jail. My name is layla de soto and their present advocate runs june 2014. Im here today to discuss the new jail that you guys are discussing right now. So god personally i think its going to be a waste to build new jail because half of the prison dont need to be isolated in a jail. They need help to get back on their feet and their needs need to be met. I believe children of incarcerated this should not believe in a nisbet as a child of incarcerated parent ive not seen my dad since im 416 next month. So, rather than spending money on an isolated build as you go to the children need transportation to see the parents or programs that help us to stay in contact with our loved one. Today im here to prevent this from happening. Feckless thank you. I still the couple more cards to call. First among laura thomas. The callback etc. First of all, i want to say thank you to supervisors for holding this hearing. I have a powerpoint which i handed over but i will save time and just speak the point in it. Im lord thomas with the Justice Policy outlines a number of San Francisco taxpayers for Public Safety. Amongst the recommendations we got three recommendations that we want to highlight. One is increasing funding for the pretrial diversion project. You heard earlier how effective that program is with in comparison to the amount of money we would spend on a jail its a relatively small amount of money that would dramatically expand their capacity did you want time to put that up on the slide . We will pause your time. So yes, recommendation number one is to increase funding for pretrial diversion project. Specifically, making sure that they can staff up with the capacity to meet people with more significant Mental Health needs. That something that people with training would be able to do. The second recommendation is specifically to increase funding through San Francisco department of health for supportive housing, Mental Health and exhibit Substance Abuse treatment programs. We heard about the importance of that and im sorry maybe someone can help you . So can i finish my point when people and things around dph funded programs is that the programs are run by the health department