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Sheriff: Too many stay too long
By The San Francisco Chronicle
Published: 04/17/2008

CALIFORNIA - San Francisco's jail population is rising each year in part because inmates are being kept there too long without getting their cases resolved, Sheriff Michael Hennessey told a Board of Supervisors committee Wednesday.

Hennessey is asking for nearly $6.8 million to pay for a growing inmate population that has forced him to open another jail in San Bruno. A recent court ruling that requires the city to give each inmate a bed also contributed to the need to open the jail, he said. Read more.

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