The initiative, called Safety Through Services, is the product of an 18-month study that looked at who ends up in San Diego County jails, why and the best approaches to keep them from returning
County Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer, who proposed Safety Through Services in October 2021, said at the meeting that there needs to be a shift from relying on incarceration to addressing issues like homelessness, addiction and mental illness.“Our current system is expensive, it’s failing, it’s costing taxpayers billions and it’s not working,” she said, adding that it costs more than twice as much to jail someone with mental illness than to get that person into housing and treatment.
Researchers found that in the year following this period, while just over half of the people counted in the study had a subsequent arrest, that arrest was rarely for a crime that wasn’t tied to alcohol or drug addiction, homelessness or financial instability. “Potential clients need to know what services are available and there needs to be enough room to serve them,” the study said. “Prioritizing additional education and outreach in innovative ways, including the use of trusted messengers, is encouraged.”
Accompanying the study was a multi-phase work plan that outlined 20 actions the county plans to take over the next year at a cost of $7.2 million. Each action sits somewhere on the Sequential Intercept Model, a numerical system that helps identify the best point in the criminal justice system at which to “intercept” and divert a person into services.
Another proposed action is to create a program called Connection Points. Similar to Orange County’s successful Project Kinship, it would link people leaving jail with peer mentors who also have a history of incarceration. The peer mentor would help address their mentee’s immediate and longer-term needs with a goal of keeping the person from returning to jail.
Bill Payne, the president and CEO of Second Chance, a nonprofit that provides post-incarceration re-entry services, called Safety Through Services “inherently reactive.”
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