. >> up next, tanya marra, the director of jail health and reentry services for the department of mental health. >> hello. >> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for holding this hearing today on the justice-involved bee hair yearal health population. it's a topic near and dear to me. while driving my 6-year-old son to cool thi school this mornings telling about what i talk to him and he said mommy, please, stop talking. let's hope that you find me slightly more interesting than he did. so, when i started doing this work 15 years ago, some residential treatment programs refused to take patients from the jail. they saw them as dangerous and different. we have come a long way since then. today, we are having this hearing and the health commission has passed a resolution stating that incarceration is a public-health issue. the d.p.h. in collaboration with the criminal justice partners has a role in preventing criminal justice involvement, treating justice-involved patients and addressing the far-reaching effects of incarceration on our patients, their families and our community as a whol