hanna mason. harriet sebastian. emilie harris. >>> hi, my name is jennifer friedenbach, executive director of the coalition on homelessness. i think we can all agree we want fewer people incarcerate and had we want to make sure that those who are incarcerated have humane conditions. i really pleav we can utilize this debate as an opportunity to correct the poor harms san franciscans face. step back and look at not only how many can be diverted from the criminal justice after arrest but prevent people from being arrested in the first place. in my work at the coalition on homelessness we see people who end up in the criminal justice system simply as a result of their status of being poor. as being poor people of color, as poor people who have nowhere to live who perhaps suffer from mental illness or addictive disorders, and people who are considered repeat offenders for being so offensive [speaker not understood] arrest in public. other people who are so desperate forest that they are forced to break into buildingses

. >>> hill owe, my name is hanna mason and i'm with californians unite toeder r a responsible budget also doing social work right now. ~ i am opposed to the jail and just wanted to reiterate that as we've heard, mental health and substance abuse treatment programs need to be expanded and have proven to be more effective and cheaper for people to do before they would be in jail in the first place. we need to really look at the way to expand diversion programs, probation, behavioral health court, thing like that, pretrial release, and really looking at those things that haven't all been outlined in the report. there have already been so many tactics that led to the decrease in jail population. and i think that san francisco is clearly a leader in that regard and we need to continue to be a leader by not building more spaces to incarcerate people. history has shown in california that when we build more jails, we fill them up. and i think that the pressure on the city of not having -- of having less jail space and having to look for alternatives is a really healthy pressure to continuing