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If there is not a warm hand off, the connection, the recidivism rate the parole was receiving was 78 percent. We have an 85 percent successful completion rate. We started charting those that were object skonding and not showing up. The population had such greater likelihood of not only showing up but being successful in completing their post releasing time if in fact we were able to engage with them ahead of time. We were the first county officers to begin the work but we couldnt send people all over the state. Thats where i got the idea to lets bring them back early and work with senator hancock to work with that to give the county the pilot to do this. I support everything the sheriff said to this being a really Innovative Program and the opportunity to work with the population and got the governors attention that hes written this into pod of over crowding and one of the strategies that hes basically implementing is to take ....
Whats appropriate and when to be on the bay because so much is at stake. Thank you, joe vazquez. Governor brown says the federal government is trying to make california more dangerous. So he is taking the feds to court and it all that is to do with the states prison overcrowding problem. The situation, of course, better than a few years ago but cbs 5 reporter grace lee shows us there is still more work to be done. Reporter this goes back to 2009 when a federal panel of judges ruled that california prisons were overcrowded to the point of being unconstitutional. With the governors proclamation today he says that era is over and we should not have to comply with a federal prison population cap anymore. Today i have signed this proclamation stating that the troubled situation in california prisons has been remedied. Reporter that situation is overcrowding at the states 33 prisons with conditions so bad that a federal court ruled it was cruel and unusual punishment. The feds then ruled the ....
Think catches the eyes of the state to do more of this which is why this selected San Francisco to be that site for this contract. Thank you, sheriff. Good morning supervisors. First i would like to thank mr. Rose office for the great work their analyst did in looking at this complicated issue, but to briefly the idea for this reentry pod came from noticing a gap. When inmates are being released from state prison, if there is not a warm hand off, the connection, the recidivism rate the parole was receiving was 78 percent. We have an 85 percent successful completion rate. We started charting those that were object skonding and not showing up. The population had such greater likelihood of not only showing up but being successful in completing their post releasing time if in fact we were able to engage with them ahead of time. We were the first county officers to begin the work but we couldnt send people all over the state. Thats wher ....