by Chris Roberts
San Francisco’s criminal justice alternatives — sending offenders to rehab rather than behind bars, for instance — and an inmate population that’s steadily declined over the past decade could eliminate The City’s need for a new $600 million jail. However, police say the trend of declining arrests won’t last forever, and even die-hard opponents of a plan to build a new 640-person jail agree that the aged, outmoded facilities housing prisoners at the seismically unsafe Hall of Justice are unacceptable.…
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