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| Jail loses funding |
| By The San Francisco Chronicle |
| Published: 09/13/2006 |
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom abruptly yanked $750,000 from his highly touted $3.7 million anti-crime plan Tuesday, removing money that was intended to ease jail overcrowding so 100 inmates could stop sleeping on the floor. The funding had been included in Newsom's multipart strategy to deal with a spike in homicides and other violent crime. The mayor is pushing to enforce a curfew for youths ages 13 and under between midnight and 5 a.m. and is seeking money for a crackdown on teenage truants and adult probation violators. But the money to pay for more deputies so two empty pods of the new San Bruno jail could be opened vanished Tuesday, when Newsom sent his supplemental budget proposal to the Board of Supervisors. "The rug was pulled out from underneath'' the jail staffing plan, Sheriff Mike Hennessey said. "They put it in and just took it out -- if people have to sleep on cement floors, apparently that is an agreeable part of the mayor's approach to criminal justice in San Francisco.'' Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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