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Sheriff cites rising jail population, committee approves supplemental appropriation as amended
Summary
Sheriff Hennessy told the committee that jail population growth—driven largely by drug-related and serious offenses—forced the city to reopen a small jail in San Bruno and incur overtime costs; the committee approved a fiscal-year supplemental appropriation to cover immediate staffing and overtime needs with a budget-analyst amendment reducing the jail health-services line.
San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessy told supervisors the county—s jail population has risen sharply over the past six months, forcing the department to reopen a previously closed facility and run expensive overtime to staff additional housing pods.
Hennessy said the increase followed a federal ruling that prohibited inmates sleeping on mattresses on the floor and described a roughly 2,100-inmate snapshot in which drug offenses represented roughly "in the…
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