Addressing about. When 80 of people in cages are not able to afford their jail that is danger. When 50 are black that White Supremacy is danger. When one into black women expense imprisonment in her life that antiblack and that transmit jogs in the transphobia is dangerous. If its all happening and San Francisco. If you are talk danger, the site if its all happening and San Francisco. If you are talk danger, the site about july 10 through one of the deadliest months in the history due to Police Violence we are hiring 400 new police office. As i was in a blanket a black woman was found dead on monday, two days after she entered the jail in texas. This committal Justice System is whats creating and perpetuating the danger the poverty and the right to promise that just can never be humane or saved because jail facilities are actually cages and cages can provide Mental Health care. With bill reform and printout the version and affordable housing, with confident resources and organizations
Being detained not based on the risk they pose to the community but rather based on the fact that they are poor and they cant pay dell. There is a high six race right in queens with the Program Began about six years ago he 7 of dependence return to complete requirement. This is following many other cities that already begun to do this. We see in cities in kentucky and oregon the bar started moving away from her alliance on money bail. This keeps people from being stuck in jail and losing access to work, school, and family. Things which further destabilize people and encourage them to recidivism good i guess what im saying, theres so many alternatives that people have opposed to you today and i think they could go on and on and on about the good bike he said at the beginning of this meeting, is a really exciting opportunity. We shall be excited about. To think we got jails would work there be is 0 resume thats clearly not the case that the really exciting opportunity by the alternatives
Project and others recidivism has gone down precipitously with education in outpatient in the community alternatives. Texas, actually, has decided to focus on Mental Health issues and Substance Abuse and that eight times lower recidivism than people who are not in these programs. Good afternoon. My name is katya under with all of us ordered and Legal Services with children. We are daily correspondence with incarcerated people and formerly incarcerated people i can tell you these mothers, fathers, sons and daughters they face unimaginable barriers to entry in the chance of starting over means a meaningful chance to good housing, good education, good healthcare. Things that as discussed are a most impossible for the rest of us. Really impossible for this extremely vulnerable population. It makes a Pretty Simple in reducing resident means Reentry Services like those we talked about pretrial diversion, and not a new jail. So, please, that many family suffering at the hands of our criminal
Of children with in this neighborhood. Thank you. Hi. My name is with critical resistance. In california united for responsible budget. Thank you so much for holding this hearing. Its really excellent and important to have these opportunities for the public to have time to highlight the really practical and already existing opportunities we have two estimates of yesterday derail this train which is the crisis of imprisonment or turn the train. So, i just want to draw some attention, i think the smoke and mirrors of the Sheriffs Department is spinning by saying its possible for them to be running alternative programs. I want to just remind you all, when you talk about alternatives to talk about alternatives that are not inside jails and prisons. Is not a Mental Health j. Not Community Programs in a jail setting. That investment and imprisonment. When they present these charts about how much theyre doing that is alternative those are jails. So, the robust Community Programs that include
Regardless of what the most accurate estimate is, if you build a new jail it will get filled. By building a new jail you effectively kill the political pressure to find alternatives. Whereas, if you dont build it you give the government an incentive to reduce the jail population. They will find a way to free people if only out of necessity. So, i like to cite one of the examples of where the pressure has went. We see weasley last week new york finally announce that due to their Overburdened Court system they are going to the releasing many bogus offenders regardless of their ability to pay. The debut referring of 18 million [inaudible] to pale up to 3000 lowrisk event these are people being detained not based on the risk they pose to the community but rather based on the fact that they are poor and they cant pay dell. There is a high six race right in queens with the Program Began about six years ago he 7 of dependence return to complete requirement. This is following many other cities