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Committee backs ordinance to end revenue generation from incarcerated people
Summary
The committee voted to recommend the "People Over Profits" ordinance that would bar the city from entering contracts allowing it to collect revenue from jail phone calls, commissary markups, or new devices; sponsors said the change protects families and preserves programming funded by inmate welfare funds.
The Government Audit & Oversight Committee advanced an ordinance July 2 that would prohibit the City and County of San Francisco from entering agreements that allow it to collect revenue from incarcerated people or their families for phone calls, commissary purchases, or communications devices.
Supervisor Sandra Lee Feuer, the measure’s sponsor, said the policy builds on reforms that made jail phone calls free last year and aims to make the change…
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