Illness that needs to be conditioned their stabilized in jail and taught how to be in a Community Treatment program so we can have success in program we dont want them to be recidivist so step down to out of custody and Community Treatment a viable option again with the court saying who can and cant be in the communicated. Right i imagine the courts law students r lubricants the option and maybe we can rethink some of the programs for the components of in between the Community Facility and a jail yeah youll have to look at the licensing requirements some people in the community dont need a locked facility so look at the medical night in community we can get medical reimbursement as long as they need the care. Were paying outofpocket for the medical Health Services we could get reimbursed were leaving money on the table again with our city when there are alternatives i should ask what is helpful in providing mental Health Services in the Community Versus our jails thats a direction we w
Program we cant take any more clients and put out of our county jail system. Supervisor i cant speak to that ill redirect it. As it relates specific to the matter of pretrial drefrgs or diversion their funding stream one of the things ill point out will young from the pretrial diversion will be here to speak in detail about that topic but rest assured im sure theyre operating at full capacity and their definitely operating at full capacity and if we decrease the funds they could take on more inmates if we examine what funding for example the pretrial diversions for the pretrial inmates what the reduction would be in if we examined that. As stated will young will speak to that. Were you able to will was not part of the study of the alternatives. One thing ill offer to you in that context is that funding for pretrial trial a half of that funding and the other eligibility requirements for people to pretrial theres assessments to determine who meets the requirement and who does. May questi
Said he would back off on the 40 million jail rebuild if the population dropped below one thousand inmates so the Pretrial Diversion Program the Mental Health programs in the community with the leadership and the Substance Abuse could continues the trend of reduction i know the Controllers Office has mentioned it is leveling off but really San Francisco value type of programs that can help us reduce the population im interested as this move forward while the iron is hot before the august 28th deadline were looking at alternatives to not expand the jails but to potentially rebuilt the parts especially c. J. 4 and 3 that are needed i wanted to appreciate to deputy chief friedman and the others to take me and my staff around to the hall of justice we looked at c. J. One and two and 4 and went to san bruno to see the pod shaped 4 and 57 but seeing from those photos the challenges of turning a facility into something that many from the critical resistance homes not jails in the coalition is
Alternatives did you examine how many what the reduction of beds would be if we for example doubled the funds for a pretrial diversification or Diversion Program we cant take any more clients and put out of our county jail system. Supervisor i cant speak to that ill redirect it. As it relates specific to the matter of pretrial drefrgs or diversion their funding stream one of the things ill point out will young from the pretrial diversion will be here to speak in detail about that topic but rest assured im sure theyre operating at full capacity and their definitely operating at full capacity and if we decrease the funds they could take on more inmates if we examine what funding for example the pretrial diversions for the pretrial inmates what the reduction would be in if we examined that. As stated will young will speak to that. Were you able to will was not part of the study of the alternatives. One thing ill offer to you in that context is that funding for pretrial trial a half of tha
Despite increased attention by schools, mental health resources remain inadequate to the scale of the need, and Montana’s youth suicide numbers remain stubbornly persistent.