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Supervisors probe jail alternatives after DA wins MacArthur grant; sheriff warns CJ4 safety and requests planning funds
Summary
A long committee hearing on re‑envisioning the jail project produced divergent views: the DA urged a pause while the MacArthur‑funded review proceeds; the sheriff warned that County Jail 4 is seismically unsafe and requested planning funds to renovate County Jail 6 if alternatives do not reduce the population.
The Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee on Oct. 24 devoted several hours to updates from the Jail Replacement Project working group and competing proposals for addressing an aging, seismically vulnerable County Jail 4 (850 Bryant St.).
District Attorney George Gascon said his office obtained a $2 million MacArthur Foundation grant to fund an independent, two‑year systems review and recommended the Board “take a pause” on new construction while the outside analysis identifies capacity needs and policy levers to reduce the jail population.
“We need to figure out how to deal with that,” Gascon said, describing a grant‑funded process that will bring national experts to assess the system and recommend what kind of facility — if any — the city should…
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