Illness, that 14 , to have a Substance Abuse disorder. About 80 of the general population has a Substance Abuse disorder. If courts are going to incarcerate individuals that have mental dullness, the facilities need to be safe, they need to be humane, and they need to have places that people can be treated. They need housing areas that are safe, dormitory housing doesnt work for folks that have Mental Illness. Imagine someone thats having a manic episode that may stay up all night talking loudly, singing loudly, cleaning their so imagine how that would go over with other inmates trying to sleep in their dormitory setting. So, they need single cell or two person housing. We need treatment space, both for individuals treatment that meet compliance so private space where the clinician can sit with the client and hear the clients concerns, work with the client that is visible to the custody staff but the custody staff cant hear whats being said. Its also very important that we group rooms. Thatll be what we call therapy rooms so that the individual can roam around. Socialize, when theyre in jail, and learn how to socialize, learn how to cooperate and be in treatment so they can be successful when theyre in community. People that are housed in direct supervision jails generally do better. Jail is the huge risk for suicide and i dont know how many of you have looked at county jails three and four but there the old vail bar jails, though, it kind that you see in the movies. Its hard for the deputies to view inmates are housed in those type of jails. Its hard for the deputies to interact with inmates are housed in those shares. Its hard for psych staff to go in and work with her mill you helping them socialize, helping them become healthier. So, direct supervision jails are very very important to this population. People with Mental Illness and the jail are up a vulnerable population, and they need to be safe in a jail. Staff who treat them also must be safe in a jail. If a jail help staff is it in an area setting oneonone with an inmate with no window, which does happen, its not safe to be sitting with that individual. In county jail five, i dont know if youve seen it. Its been its the newest jail that the symphysis go Sheriffs Department has, we currently have whats called a psychological sheltered living units. In that psych staff in their everyday working with those individuals, working with them in group sessions, working with them oneonone and working with them as they socialize with each other, including playing games, watching television, anything thats going to help them learn how to be in a setting with other people could we have also found that the general population, the mill you setting, helps staff morale. Its very important that you want to a staff that wants to go to work, that theyre compassionate about what they do and that happens at county jail five. At county jail four and county jail six there is currently insufficient treatment space. There is no interview rooms. Theres no group rooms. This no office space for staff. When people work in a jail they must have access to computers and two telephones him and to private space where they can keep confidential records. At county jail four and county jail six this limited access to jim and most of the literature shows that people who are depressed, benefit from physical activity. Its very important that people with any kind of Mental Health issue be able to access jim, access physical activity. Thank you ms. Robbins guy politicking becomes increasingly unfair as presenters, after realizing work him and him close to an hour now with only gone through four of our seven presenters. So just for the sake of time i knew you presented this information yesterday budget committee, and i really appreciate your perspective again today. Actually, i know from supervisor breed and myself i think this is one of the key aspects that we want to explore the most and we talk about rebuilding the jail. I said this yesterday, but the Stanford Law School and California State Senate pro tem Gerald Steinberg came out with the board asking when the prisons become acceptable Mental Health care facilities . I think the there was summarize the report in the back. Thank you for bringing it. Its a really big question. I think increasingly we as a Society Actors here in San Francisco, are relying on prisons and jails as the solution to the Mental Health issue that we are really struggling to address. I really want dph to play a central role in helping us really rethink what our jail system could look like and i cited some of this yesterday at the National Alliance of Mental Illness stated, at some point, 2540 of individuals across the country will at some point be incarcerated. That is a very stock number and knowing that 45 of inmates thursday prisons today are treated for Mental Health illnesses, that at close to 50 of inmates in our state prison system are treated for Mental Health issue. So, clearly, is more we can do in this arena and appreciate some of the solutions you presented in terms of what we can do to better address that issue. Thank you. Thank you. Deputy chief freeman thank you for being here and i just want to say, this charset on for decades has been a Model Department throughout the country. Really innovating and piloting some of our incredible programs around rsvp, restorative justice, and many other programs that have helped prevent recidivism. So i want to acknowledge the sheriffs apartment really innovative work on that. Supervisors, good morning. Its a pleasure to be here to get my name is matt freeman on the chief Deputy Sheriff in charge of the Custody Operations Division city and county of San Francisco sheriffs office. The pleasure to be here today to have the opportunity to briefly speak with you regarding the rehabilitation detention facility project otherwise known as all justice placement jail project. We are also here today to talk you about aarp released by the board of state and Community Corrections pursuant to 863. Replacement of the h linder hall justice judge that a top priority on the state capital plans since 2006. Jeffs apartment has been working with several city agencies as part of the justice facilities Improvement Project since 2008. As you know, the justice facility proven project calls for the relocation of all all justice tenants. Constructed in 1950, the building has received a seismic hazard rating of three which indicates in event of an earthquake any structural damage to the hall of justice be very severe impose appreciable lighthouses that likely would require the vacation of the building. Since 2008 bishops of honest look closely with the gel Planning Team consisting of representatives of the mayors budget office, comptrollers office, department of public works, Capital Planning committee, and Real Estate Department response to to state senate bills, senate bill 1020 and senate bill 86 in economy to obtain funding opportunities. The work of the gel Planning Group has been very collaborative. Included the input of multiple disciplines and subject Matter Experts in the bus serves as a good example with the city cannot publish them we Work Together on large projects such as this. Some 30 years before the implementation of state realignment in october of 2011 the sheriff deponent is fully embraced and been a leader in the delivery of in custody in a programming that seeks to address the underlying grid of actors that played offenders by offering some of the most innovative evidencebased programs in existence today. We publish this via our professional team of staff to include Deputy Sheriffs, chairs program and rehabilitation coordinators, jill help clinicians, jill Behavior Health clinicians, communitybased Organization Partners and through Collaborative Partnerships with greater criminal justice infrastructure to include the courts among adult probation, parole, public defender, district attorney, and the police department. The sheriff deponent believes that secure detention is not a onesizefitsall application of justice and is not necessary in every case to ensure public safety. Because of this belief, we have robust pretrial diversion and alternative to incarceration programs. In fact, on any given day it is likely that we have somewhere between 9001100 individual places observe pretrial were alternative program. As a matter fact, i think its even higher than that now. Reality is, however, many of the offenders arrested in the city and county of San Francisco are not eligible for these programs due to the seriousness of their charges. The sheriffs apartment truly believes and holds dear to live in High School Results ability to not allow incarceration time to be wasted time. We do our best to prepare inmates for successful reentry which makes the Community Healthier and safer. The Sheriffs Department innovative nature and understands fully the words of our role in the treatment of the underlying cause of criminal behavior. We will continue to work with apoptosis partners to address the needs of offenders and reduce recidivism. Because this by delivering evidencebased programming and conditions of confinement that facilitate a therapeutic environment whereby effective case management, delivery of educational curriculum, soho and Vocational Program and can thrive and is realized in our county jail facility today. Central to this effort is replacement of the age in seismic week to finish in linear jails three and four. Two primary areas with busby considering consideration of this project. The first being that count in response to our own successes in offender management in light of the information gleaned from the multiple and independent jill population forecast, the sheriff deponent seeks to reduce the overall pick count that the county jail. The second and perhaps more porn consideration are the conditions of confinement and safety of the incarcerated population. The rpf will replace two linear jails told in the late 1950s that utilize indirect supervision application and offer no ability whatsoever to deliver any programs in meaningful care to the mentally ill. The rpf will be built in watterson is using pot design and light truck supervising over significantly increasing inmate safety. The rpf will contain modern classrooms with the latest technology and activity which bolsters the ability to live or educational curriculum, programmatic content and Vocational Training. The facility will have designated reunification that offenders committing family ties. Rpf love designated housing areas those offenders with the important challenge of dealing with Mental Health issues. The conditions of combined in all justice jails are deplorable. Not reflective of the values of San Francisco. The replacement of these outdated facilities is long overdue and central to the overall approach criminal justice efforts in the city and county of San Francisco. I have a very brief slide for you that i think are very important in light of some of the earlier presentations from supervisors trust me, i will be brief was actually going to the site as your talking and went over all these points. There are couple of slides that i would like to touch on if youll indulge me for a brief moment, supervisors shifted midwicket scuba said because you did cover that was in your presentation just now. Sure. But talk about Current Operations and what the actual account situation is whats available to us. Currently, in use, counting jill two, four, and five which represents a total headcount of able to a sub 1634, when you look at the make count as of monday, july 13, we were that 70 of capacity. When you added classification factor of only 56 percentage point or pushes up over 80 of capacity. Jail number three is close since 2013. I want to remind you it was current sheriff ross who ordered the closure of episode. Facility. If we look at the future of 2020 but this exhibit would look at us and i would personal gel replacement cjthree and four are closed and we simply build nothing, we would actually have of able to us a total of 1232 jail beds. What would that mean . Just going by details jacob told me we were over 100 capacity. We were suffering from significant overcrowding, safety and security of the inmate and staff would be significantly compromised in custody programming would be severely impacted, operational costs would soar in litigation is a very likely scenario should that scenario actually take place. If we project forward to 2020, and we have replaced the age and seismically deficient hall of justice jails the revocation detention facility at 384 beds, we would have of those was a total of 1616, 1616 beds. This consistent with the controllers population forecast. This preserves inmate staff safety and the reserves in custody offender programming and treatment. I think thats very important to point out. All of justice jails have no classrooms. No Vocational Training space. Terrible inmate Child Visitation Program which is a program we hold dear and terrible of care infrastructure and you can compare that clearly with the rpf where we have an entire floor dedicated to education curriculum, Vocational Training space,. You can offer a lot of inmate programs and they are all very important, but as we move into this new direction of Vocational Training were talking about jobs. Designated inmate child Visitation Centers and stateoftheart healthcare facilities. San bruno, county jail six facility that drawn a lot of attention and perhaps rightly so in open dormitory. There are no sales. There no safety cells were those that are being thereto and 50 are placed. Theres no kitchen. Theres no laundry. There is no vehicle south reports. The stare affect funds are compromised. It was built in the late 80s in response to significant jail overcrowding and supervisor breed, a manager . What about that. Far from Family Committee and support mechanisms, the job to compare that with the rv at double occupancy cells, in San Francisco, close to the boast were very close to service providers, close to the criminal justice agencies they need to serve this population, since stateoftheart medical and Mental Health. I want to conclude once again emphasize that the Sheriffs Department does offer funded in very Robust Community programs to include pretrial alternatives, pretrial diversion, you are well young talk about that. Where account accountable homeless services. What we also 2. 0, 123based servers and alternative preservation is the current job sure if dosed in 2013 pushed legislation forward to expand the use of pretrial electronic monitoring, which further is evidence to the commitment of this agency to pretrial alternatives and alternatives to incarceration. Sheriff has been an advocate of vale performed something that has been talked about here today and supervisors like dui data sheet that gives you a complete breakdown of what the current bail statuses for every inmate is in the county jail today. The sheriff has spoken consistently and eloquently that is the two of aforementioned initiatives were to go forward, that the drop in recidivism would continue to see a drop. Going to the issue of county jail number six and some of the questions supervisor breed that were brought up, number six was actually erected because of federal oversight. It was enclosed because of federal oversight. It was built in the midlate 80s in response to federal oversight of the San Francisco county jail because at the time we were experiencing significant jail overcrowding. Get inmates house on the floor, room causes, gym floors. It was built to house the very specific inmate population. That was minimumsecurity inmates that were in the county jail at the time predominately for misdemeanor offenses. That is a population that is not been placed in secure detention in this county for many many years. It was closed because it no longer fit the need of the Sheriffs Department and the type of inmates that we had committed to the jail by the courts were not suitable. It was not safe for the inmates or the staff to house them there. Also, quite frankly the issues do play a role in that type of decision. That is the bulk of my presentation for you to get i want to thank each and everyone of you for alumni to address the committee. Of course, given the questions be more than happy to answer them. Thank you. Thank you for the presentation i just want to reenter it again ive always been a fan of the Sheriffs Department long before was on the board of supervisors because of the programming that you provide within counties. I visited five keys and i was on the school board. The program which i actually used a model for School District when i served on the school board. Its really amazing the work that this department has done for decades long before the rest of the country were paying attention to these types of pilots to muscle thank you for their common leadership on this program. A . I have a question. Chairman yee for whatever reason am pressing a button it does not show up. Thank you for your presentation. Thank everybody for your presentation get is a lot of information that has been given out to me and very thorough in the presentations. Comedy bits we need and so forth. What type of inmates we are seeing at this point. One of the things that are not been discussed among which is i guess pretty important factor for me, is in regards to in particular, those that are waiting for the trials, or the bonding set, im just curious how many of those have visitations from families and friends . One of my Major Concerns is, if we were not to have certain beds in San Francisco and we were, lets say we renovate jail six, is it correct we did that and we transport people for trial to be down there one of the biggest concerns i have is whether or not these are people who cant afford bonds so theyre probably coming from very poor backgrounds. So, the families themselves, if they wanted to provide support while theyre waiting may be very difficult for them to provide the support. Maybe a wrong assumption on my part, but im concerned about that. What would happen . Are we seen people having visits in the city . I think up you bring a good point supervisor. It is a very poignant fact to point out that the san bruno jail carpets which is home two jail five and six is located in the city of san bruno south of San Francisco. With accident studies ive had members of my staff take Public Transportation report back to me how long it took them to get to san bruno. Three hours is on the low end. So, its not a great location for family members to make it out on visitation days and see their family members. Having said that, as an expression of our commitment, the Sheriffs Department commitment, to see to it that devotees remain, the shirt actually funds a shuttle free of charge from San Francisco to the san bruno jail complex so that family members can visit their loved ones that are incarcerated. Another critically important parts of our Visitation Program is what we call one family. Where we have inmate child facilitated contact visits, which is shown to be a Great Success not only 40 incarcerated person, but for the dependent children to making that family bond, but once again, the san bruno because of the geographical difference and because of the way those facilities were constructed, thats not optimized. It gone the extra mile to actually design in the rpf specific areas for inmate children visitation. Thanks for that answer, but what im after is whether or not theres higher visitation while the inmates are in San Francisco versus being in san bruno even though you have sh a shuttle that i could surely get back to you on that. I can tell you anecdotally, just what i see with my eyes, i would say the visitation rate is higher for the jails located in the city. I would appreciate that if you could get me that information. Absolutely. So, we have our final two presenters. Kyle patterson from the Controllers Office and brian strong [inaudible] good morning, supervisor. Maybe good afternoon at this point it minus Kyle Patterson comptrollers office. Could you speak you briefly say about our jail population forecast update which is about a month ago. On 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
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