in our jail system who is pregnant and expected to give birth during her incarceration, typically, the common rule among all states, in this country, and in california, is that the baby is separated from the birth mother by the third day. and it is often uncertain if the baby will benefit from the breast milk of the birth mother and for us we want to change the dynamic profoundly which is why we installed the dula in the woman's jail that can help to facilitate what is a proper birth system and a better bonding and unify indication, and installing the milk pumping stations, and and so that the baby itself can never be without the benefit of the mother's breast milk and unless there is a legal or health reason and we are working closely with the department of public health on what is the birth justice project and we are hoping that they understand the value of this for what is a more sizeable female population and as it result to even just the basics of going and visits our jail like in sanbrun the fog there can be quite challenging, and up until, even today, there had been no ability w

board of supervisors for adopting the children of incarcerated parents bill of right as a resolution in 2005. this resolution, will encourage the city departments and the agencies to consider the children of incarcerated parents, bill of rights, when the decisions are made about us, we would also like to thank the san francisco board of supervisors to pass the ordinance to ban the box on housing and job applications and the efforts to end the discrimination against the formally incarcerated parents and this is an important step in reunifying the children with the parents and we would also like to thank the san francisco police commission to voting in favor of the department general order and 7.04 which is a protocol, for the police officers on how to arrest the parents when the children are parent. and we also will like to acknowledge the san francisco police department for encouraging and implementing this effort and i will now pass it over to sophi. >> and thank you. >> and so, what we really appreciate the work of the board of supervisors and the police department as well as the p

or has been formally incarcerated. >> we don't that data, as i mentioned earlier, what she said from the juvenile commission was right on task there. >> thank you very much. >> and our next presenter will be jennifer from adult, and yes, adult probation. >> i am the director of the reentry division and i just want to offer to feed half of my time and i have the two points that i can make and sure. >> i am here on behalf of chief wendy to whom the issue is of primary importance, and we are continued, and so that we have invested substantial resources in a new program and it is an alternative sentencing program, in partnership on the juvenile and criminal justice, at cameo house that houses up to eleven women and 22 children, and the alternate is the sentencing program, affords the woman the opportunity to serve their time out of custody. and so that they are not separated from their children and may have up to two children each, and avoid, jail or ultimately prison commitment. and obviously, ultimately avoid, children entering the foster care system and so apd supports the expansion o

which is comprised of youth with incarcerated parents either formally incarcerate or currently incarcerated parents. on mar 2014, the board of supervisors held a hearing of incarcerated youth and the various departments that provides services for youth with incarcerated parents. the hearing will be held thursday june 19 th if you would like to attend. on behalf of the commission, i would like to thank the police commission for passing dgo 7.04 which establishes protocols for making an arrest for youth and children. i would like to thank supervisors for their support involving the hearing. we hope you get involved furred. -- further. we also hope the board of supervisors take measures on the data distribution and life outcomes of youth with incarcerated parents as well as promoting family and unity and sustained relationships between youth and their incarcerated parents by encouraging enhanced protocols for consideration of a family in sentencing positive, visiting policies in county jails and providing funding house ing and support services and visiting standards for incarcerated parents. f

i think, we talk about we need more services but when we think if you incarcerate someone for one year it's $50,000 and if we could reduce the incarceration rate we would have much more money for the treatment of the mentally ill. so i urge you, i think laura's law, we do need to reduce the number of incarcerations, reduce the number of people who are on our streets and i think it will be an important step in that direction. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> chairman yee, supervisors, neither the lchb or ecs have taken a formal position on laura's law so i'm here to speak for myself. i support laura's law because i believe assisted outpatient treatment can be a useful tool when a patient demonstrates symptoms of severe mental illness and resists treatment. the results in new york state from kendra's law show they get better outcomes. the majority of homeless people are not severely mentally ill. laura's law is designed to address the needs of a small number of severely ill revolving door patients who meet the extensive criteria presented in the law. i respect t

which is comprised of youth with incarcerated parents either formally incarcerate or currently incarcerated parents. on mar 2014, the board of supervisors held a hearing of incarcerated youth and the various departments that provides services for youth with incarcerated parents. the hearing will be held thursday june 19 th if you would like to attend. on

it will also reduce costs by reducing hospitalization and incarceration costs that are incurred now. you have already heard testimony from nevada county that it helped save money and that money could be used for resources as well. we encourage you to move this forward to the full board of supervisors. thank you for your time. >> next speaker, please. >> committee, margie english from st. vincent de paul society here today. here to speak in support of laura's law. under our roof we do many things and i'm in partnership with many of the people in this room and i feel the emotion. one of the programs we run is the largest homeless shelter in northern california and within that shelter, though, is a drop-in resource center and that is the eye of the storm here in san francisco for some critical incidents that all your first responders talk about. at the society we make anest to treat everyone with compassion, dignity and social justice. my employees would never be here to speak up. they meet people where they are. we also run a recovery program which mimics what the fsa and bob bennett w

there are over 2.7 million children in this country that has a parent that is incarcerated, and in san francisco, we are below that average, but still, high enough to warrant the kind of initiative and response that lasers in on the question of building better bonds between family and incarcerated parents, especially children, and if we really want to make an intergenerational statement and make it subnative, in our action, it is looking at how we can prepare somebody for release, with better reunification before release with their children, which is why we increased the visitation hours and which is why we have instituted the kind of parenting classes that have never happened before and which is why incarcerated mothers that are expecting and pregnant that we now institute a dula and breast pump milk stations inside so the baby gets the benefit from the mother's breast milk this is not happening anywhere, but we believe that it can and will. and so one small future of those barriers but an parent one is the cost of staying in contact and that really gets us, i think, you know, to the

been making to make sure we continue to lead the state and lead the country in alternatives to incarceration, that we continue to come up with slueptions to real issues we have been talking a lot about mental aelt and the way our criminal justice system is used to respond to mental health and in a way this sets back the progress we have been making in recent years. that's a real concern, that it's going to reduce the amount of money we are going to spend on our jails, and instead think we will actually respond to the real issues we are facing here that many people before me have aptly pointed out. i urge you to think creatively how we can respond to a real mental health need. i think we all agree the need is increased accessible, afifrpling and harm reduction based services. thank you. >> thank you. (calling names) i want it offer miss wilcox the ability to speak at the end at the end. >> my name is sandra larson and i've been an advocate in san francisco for mental health clients, having been one myself since 1986. i appreciate all the work people have made to try to assist people, but what

with the incarceration, people think about just a temporary loss of freedom.f you think about it, it has economic impacts. it has the ability to vote in many cases. political impact. and so there's no better way to destroy an entire generation than to incarcerate them at an early age. we need to focus on education. making sure our kids can read at the third grade. we need to strengthen our opportunities for men of color so we don't fill up prisons with men of color. we fill up institutions with young men of color. >> well said. >> thank you very much, because that really is the issue, the pipeline. we want people to go down the right pipeline. so, it is about pre-kindergarten. it's about kindergarten, learning math and learning english and having communities that wrap around our children to provide what they need. what we're really working on is working with corporations, working with nonprofit, working with theaters, working with a variety of folks to make sure that our children get what they need. so, we have a gateway project, a promised neighborhoods promi

his mental improvement and stability and insight, of course, too late for him he'll be forever incarcerated my too late for laura. to nick and i that is totally background we wait until someone does a crime and then they get treatment we thought there was a better approach he nick will talk about the legislation that ultimately ended up with laura's law but we knew and what we wanted to work for was getting treatment green before someone deteriorates and before their imcan't before that he do harm to them or on the we thought it made sense to get it before going to jail or prison doing is not only better for individuals for all enacted by severe mental illness we worked to pass laura's law in nevada couldn't and i'm very proud of our county that's leading the way the outcomes are fabulous they're far better than we ever envisioned and i think we can feel that due to this tragedy we indeed making a positive differences for the laura. i wish we had her back i'm glad we, do that i'll i'm going to turn it over to my husband nick and (clapping.) >> i have a lump in my troet after that. when laur

but serbia incarcerates a much smaller portion of its citizens. one out of nearly every 700 versus one out of every 130 in the united states. >> at the moment, a total of 1,200 inmates are being held here which is 2 1/2 times more than the prison's actual capacity. >> while some parts of cz have been modernized, much of the prison shows signs of age of one especially haunting section is completely abandoned behind locked doors. the execution chamber. >> we went down probably three, four stories underground to an area best described kind of like a scene out of "aliens." >> they literally have puddles of the water on the ground and they have boards that are slightly elevated. and you kind of do a balancing act to cross these boards down this old corridor. and then you just come upon an open room with a wall. >> translator: we are currently in a room where executions used to be carried out. prisoners on death row stood by the wall. the firing squad stood here. >> translator: it had a squad of ten executioners. some of whom had loaded weapons while ot

. >> i was never incarcerated with him. when i found out he was incarcerated, what he did time for, what he got charged for, they asked me if there would be any problems if we were in the same prison. i told them yeah, i would probably end up killing him. i just cannot condone that. >> lockup has profiled plenty of inmates who spewed hatred toward sex offenders. but we show viewers those on the receiving end. thomas hadley is serving years at utah state prison. and like many sex offenders say his punishment is unjust and his crime is misunderstood. >> i was charged with kidnapping somebody that was under 14. i'm a man that is attracted to young women. god forbid, 99% of us are. >> when we interviewed him, headley was serving his time in solitary confinement as a punishment for being uncooperative. but he explained to us he has his own motives for being in the hole. >> there's not a safer place anywhere in the prison than where i'm at. no matter what you do, how far you try to approach it, you're a worthless piece of crap be

which is comprised of youth with incarcerated parents either formally incarcerate or currently

. >> my name is sidney klenis for 18 and a half years my stepfather was incarcerated in federal prison for more than 50 years i have been a teacher of children and teachers and parents writing books on how to support children's growth and development i have been a commissioner in pasadena and i was the first child to visit alkatraz, these facts combine to make me an expert on children with parents in prison since i have the practical experience of what that means and understanding of children's development it was on my initiative and i have grateful to jeff for mentioning it that the bill of rights was adopted by this board of supervisors and all community continues to

. >> my name is jesus garcia, i have been incarcerated for nearly 12 1/2 years.'m incarcerated for first degree murder and i have life plus 26 years to serve. >> when we met jesus garcia at the penitentiary of new mexico he had recently been involved in the bloody assault of two officers. >> leading up to that day there had been incidents where they messed with me. that was the third time. i said, that was it. that's enough. i broke my tv, made a couple shanks and assaulted them. assaulted one of them. i got him, and then another officer came to his rescue and obviously trying to defend myself, i assaulted him, too. >> they were slashed around the head, neck, came very close to the jugular on one of the officers. >> i remember running into the pod. there was an inmate between both of them and they were both being stabbed. >> aaron bell rushed to aid his fellow officers moments after the assault began. >> i hit the inmate, tried to get him by his arm, and i slipped. and i didn't realize what i slipped on was all blood. >> it took a couple of minutes before we got

you sued pretty much everybody that you could for your wrongful incarceration. the courts awarded you enough money to live out your life very comfortably. yet you chose to open a foundation and almost remain in the hell from which you escaped. why did you do that? >> i can't forget about the men and women who i metaphorically left behind. most organizations in the field will only take on dna cases where it's only available for 5 to 12% of all serious felon cases. my foundation handles dna and non-dna cases. >> you are helping people who you feel are in the but don't have the dna to prove it. >> exactly but we will use dna in order to prove innocence. >> thanks to our guests for this segment. joe berlinger. sometimes bystanders are at the right place at the right time, providing vital accounts for law enforcement to identify perpetrators, but could some eyewitness information be too subjective to trust? >> low haircut, dark complected, middle age. how many are you describing when you describe that? you describe most of the majority of the men in american. >> plus

second, we request that you strengthen programs for formally incarcerated individuals. through the fair chance ordinance which was recently passed, which is san francisco's band the box ordinance, the city stance poise to provide its population with a second chance success. we ask you that invest in community based, employment and training programs, specifically $80,000 for funding through the sheriff's department. this represents an investment and an opportunity to best serve all of san franciscans. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisor. i'm jackie from hospitality and co-chair of the -- i want to support all the budget justice coalitions budget priorities today. and especially the 1.5% cost of the doing business increase and the $11 million for the house proposal. as you know the need for homelessness prevention and subsidies is well documented. you've heard a lot about it today. there's daily stories of people being evicted or harassed out of their homes and people are sleeping in dangerous situations suppose as subway tunnels and shelters are ful

think physical illness versus mental illness, why incarcerate the mentally ill? it's a great tool. laura's law is a great tool for discriminating and criminalizing of the most vulnerable. it is not funny. i wish you would really think about it and support self-treatment and noncriminalization of the most vulnerable. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> good morning, supervisors, my name is randell hager and i represent the california psychiatric association, i am their director of government affairs and i am here on behalf of psychiatrists who work and live in san francisco. i am also a person who during a 6 week period sat down with the assembly health committee staff and drafted this bill and i can tell you there's two things i would like to know if i were you about this bill. there is no program that exists that has more due process protections. what has not been mentioned today is the judges, they are not to commit someone necessarily but to protect them. all those many pages of legal requirements are there as protections and there are more protections mor

yesterday at the budget meeting in the hearing on unmet needs of youth with incarcerated parents, a student was -- really stuck with me that was social movements and change are much more effective when they are led by people who are actually affected by these issue. and as you have heard many people today have expressed their need for support from the city of san francisco as well as the board of supervisors whose job it is to represent the individuals and groups in the district. it is for this reason that i urge you to increase transparency as well as access to budgets and other governmental systems through the implementation of oversight committees on agencies such as the dcyf. an example i can provide for you that highlights what increased transparency could do is what happened to the mission beacon at everett middle school. i have the pleasure of working there for two years and dcyf and the budget meeting as well the hearing on youth incarcerated parents stated some things that they are doing to help youth in the city that are a transformation that are wonderful such as funding project

. >> we've taken the same failed policies that have led to mass incarceration, and we're using them in schools throughout the country. >> in this episode of fault lines, we travel to texas - one of the top states in funneling students from schools to jails. >> for many students, the journey to prison can begin at the start of the school day. in texas, if you're late to school three times, that's considered an unexcused absence. under state law, a student with ten unexcused absences faces fines up to 500 dollars, and a warrant to show up to truancy court. if the student can't pay the fine by the time they turn 17, they can face time in prison. jennifer torres is in her last year of high school. she owes more than 7,000 dollars in fines for truancy. she said was late to school, in part, because she worked nights as a janitor to help support her family. >> the other night i didn't leave work till like 1. >> so you get home and you're in bed by what, 2? >> i still have to shower, yeah. >> 2? yeah. and then what time are you supposed to be at school in the morning? >> well, i wake up at 5 j

. >> just because somebody is incarcerated does not mean they don't love their relatives. his inn car racing has -- incarceration has nothing to do with this shooting. >> he is seeking damages for unspecified death. the two barely saw each other. just last mop, they paid 2. million in settlements and four years ago they found him guilty for the fatal shooting of oscar grant. >>> another court hearing for the man suspected of killing sierra lemar. the last time antolin garcia- torres went before a judge, he was accused of killing sierra lemar who vanished more than two years ago on her way to school. the attorney will seek the death penalty in the case even though her body has not been found. antolin garcia-torres has pled not guilty to the charges. >>> and they are looking for a team. the victim a 14-year-old freshman and he used attend this school. we will have a live report from oregon. >>> meantime he has been accused of wounding one person and wounding two others at a pacific university. aaron is being held and is on suicide watch. he opened fire last thursday. he was

entire process let's take a look at the inmates currently in federal prison now most of those incarcerated are relatively young and male many of them in their early thirty's. the national weather service in mount holly new jersey has issued a flash flood warning for southeastern montgomery county in southeastern pennsylvania northern philadelphia county and southeast pennsylvania until eight fifteen pm at five thirteen pm national weather service doppler radar indicated excessive rainfall from a thunderstorm across southeast montgomery county the rainfall will affect the smaller creeks and metro philadelphia locations in the warning include but are not limited to regret of being a kind of gambler excessive brought up from heavy rainfall will cause flooding of small creeks and streams in areas highways streets and underpasses as well as other drainage areas and low lying spots flooding is occurring or is imminent most flood related deaths occur in automobiles do not attempt to cross water covered bridges dips water crossings never try to cross a flowing stream even a small one but for it to

with disparities among racial incarceration numbers being very high among black and brown people in our country and the smarter second act will take some actions that will help us do some incremental changes to make this better so it's faith leaders we call for justice we call for the opportunity for restoring and restoration of people from prisons to their families the sentencing act looks at addressing people who are low level drug offenders in nonviolent crimes so do restore them to their families is important and calling on the dignity of all people and the opportunity to be restored to communities is the message that we bring is faith leaders let's take a look at inmates most of those incarcerated according to the numbers are relatively young men in their early thirty's and it tapers down from that what are the societal effects of having this large number of young men who should be in their prime you know earning power wise contributing to society they're sitting behind bars what is this effect having on society from your perspective as a faith leader. well i think first of all

>>> coming up -- >> when i got incarcerated, i declared war on the state of indiana. that gave me the excessive sentence as a result of my crime. well, i'm giving you excessive violence as a result of my anger. so i decided to just rage. >>> how long do you expect me to be on msnbc with this camcorder in my hand in a night cell doing night vision recording and talking to your guys? i wasn't expected any of that. but that's how life is. life is full of surprises. life is full of change, abrupt changes, you know, unexpected changes. >> unexpected changes would come to describe our relationship with darren bailey. an inmate we met at the indiana state prison. one of a handful of inmates allowed to use a personal camera supplied by our crew used to record intimate thoughts in the privacy of his cell. he even shared some thoughts about the crew, themselves. >> you got susan, you got alex in wonderland, and all those other guys, you know, i don't know their names, but they're cool. and they're all from california. can you believe that? >> when we first started working with

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one thing about being incarcerated is it all comes down to a loss. you know, a loss of freedom. loss of people. loss of family, friends. it's one great big loss. but you begin to realize that i don't want to give the system my mentality. i don't want to give the system my sanity. i don't want to give them my integrity. i don't want to give them my loyalty. they're fighting for it. every day, it's a fight in here. every day, you're fighting for something. what i decided to do, i sought mental health. mental health didn't come to me. i went to them. i told them that i would like some help. >> he's been in the idu, our segregation unit, disciplinary segregation unit, i think for 5 1/2 months now. and he's been conduct clear throughout that time. so that told me that he really is motivated. >> how you doing, man? welcome. >> thank you. >> they got you up today, right? >> wednesday. >> wednesday? >> bailey was recently transferred from idu to the residential treatment unit or rtu, where he's given more privileges and ongoing counseling. >> other guys like, yeah. we can do it like he

it would be funny if it wasn't so serious that my colleagues are now incarcerated for years on end. there were pictures of peter greste's family on holiday, pictures of a documentary he made when he's to work for the bbc in somalia -- an award-winning documentary. there hasned earlier been is vigil outside the bbc and many of the media organizations in the last few days, because peter is a respected as a brilliant journalist not just in the region that he usually covers in east africa, but all over the world with a number of organizations. everybody is aghast they should be accused of these things, let alone convicted. i would put my hand on my heart and say the same for his other two cellmates, mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed, strong, balanced reporters that helped me enormously when i was trying to cover cairo, to understand the complexities of the story in egypt. these guys are not convicted with the flimsiest of evidence brought into court. >> i want to turn to margaret warner, the chief foreign correspondent or foreign affairs correspondent for pbs newshour. she worked with moh

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that's not much, but my life up to now has consisted only of wreckage and incarceration.i want to be together with my family. i'm 42 now and i've known nothing but war and destruction. i came to israel to find safety and end up in detention. >> and now he has to go back to the center, it's noon. he has to sign in. if he doesn't, he risks prison. long after keni returns to the detention center, surprising news makes the rounds. israel has officially recognized the first refugee -- a glimmer of hope, even for the inmates of holot. >> israel recognizes far less than 1% of these people officially as refugees. and the u.n. also criticizes its practice of unlimited detention saying the country is failing to meet its international human rights obligations. ethiopia's kafa region is believed to be the cradle of one of the finest coffee strains in the world. its cloud forest also provides a safe haven for many animals, including lions. though they are much feared by the local people nobody would dare to harm them. that's because in kafa, the lion king still rules thanks to the spe