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
Until we have confidence of job training, Youth Development programs, Mental Health, longterm mental, not just the shortterm things we have in place, and longterm housing that is truly affordable and community driven, we are not going to have the kind of success we are looking for. So, i think what we need are these programs need to be investing all of our money into these programs while i agree, again, cjfour ncjthree are deplorable, i dont think again expensive new jail is going to be the answer. Thank you again for taking this so seriously. I know its actually rare for this conversation to even be happening at this level being taken seriously by public officials. So, i appreciate the consideration you are getting. Thank you. Thank you, ms. Long. Hi. My name is [inaudible] i work with cgi Justice Project a member of the coalition. I am here to advocate for no vote option on the jill and as an alternative. The United States the course duration for a black woman is one into trans woman
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
Hi. Im [inaudible]. Im here again in the capacity as the jill groups coordinator. We work with a number of people who are directly the target audience of new jail i guess you could call it. I have a background in Mental Health and general Public Health education. So, i wanted to really commend a lot of the programming that we are he heard about today. The aurora project, a lot of the diversion programs. I think is a really good start, but its important to also point out San Francisco, with gentrification that is undeniable is increasingly hostile to poor people low income people, of all kinds. Until we have confidence of job training, Youth Development programs, Mental Health, longterm mental, not just the shortterm things we have in place, and longterm housing that is truly affordable and community driven, we are not going to have the kind of success we are looking for. So, i think what we need are these programs need to be investing all of our money into these programs while i agree,