Healthcare professionals demanded we drastically reduce the jail population, so we listened. On Jan 21, the SF jail population was 1,238. On March 4, when the emergency was declared, it was 1,097. Yesterday, it was 766. Meanwhile, crime rates continue to decrease in SF.
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Texan here. We tried that for two decades in the 90's and early 00's. It demonstrably did not work. Job-wise, it creates work in the short but not the long term. Many areas where prisons are built are already economically depressed and continue on after builders are long gone.
8:42 AM - 6 Apr 2020
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