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Supervisor introduces plan to consolidate prison reentry efforts into a single council
Summary
A supervisor introduced a proposal to formalize and consolidate city reentry efforts into a single council of city and county leaders, community organizations and formerly incarcerated people to coordinate services and annual assessments.
A supervisor at the Board of Supervisors’ April 22 meeting introduced a proposal to consolidate and formalize San Francisco’s prison reentry efforts into a single city/county council that would include the Board of Supervisors, the mayor and a set of partners from the criminal-justice and community sectors.
The speaker said the effort — developed with the public defender, district attorney, sheriff and other stakeholders since 2005 — would bring formerly incarcerated people, community-based organizations, and city departments together to coordinate policies and programs aimed at improving outcomes for adults returning from jails and state prisons. The speaker cited a recidivism rate read into the record of about 70 percent and argued for annual assessments of jail overcrowding and related funding needs.
The measure was introduced during the roll-call introductions portion of the meeting and was referred for appropriate consideration, recorded in the meeting as “appropriately referred.” No vote or ordinance number was recorded in the excerpt. The proposal as described would direct officials to develop at least annual assessments of overcrowding and funding related to the sheriff and jails and to consider coordinated strategies for reentry services.
No implementation timetable or funding source was specified in the meeting excerpt.
