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Sheriff warns AB 109 realignment could add millions to San Francisco jail costs
Summary
Sheriff Mike Hennessy told the Budget & Finance Committee that AB 109 realignment could increase county jail costs by several million dollars because state subvention ($25,000 per inmate) is well below local per-inmate costs (about $45,000'$48,000). The department proposed $144.9 million for FY2011-12 compared with current-year expenditures around $154.4 million.
At a San Francisco County Budget & Finance Committee meeting, Sheriff Mike Hennessy said his department's current-year expenditures are about $154,400,000 and his proposed budget for fiscal year 2011'12 is roughly $144,900,000, about $10 million less than estimated spending this year. "There is a graph that looks like this ... our expenditures have been or will be by the end of this fiscal year, dollars 154,400,000.0," Hennessy said.
The sheriff emphasized that the county's jail population recently declined, leaving one small San Bruno facility closed and vacancies in other jails, but cautioned that state criminal-justice realignment under AB 109 will likely raise the local jail population. Hennessy said AB 109 would send many people sentenced for nonviolent, nonserious offenses to county jails rather than state prison and…
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