The first-of-its-kind law follows the city’s decision to stop charging for phone calls from jail.
A retrofitted Muni bus offers an alternative route to a high school diploma.
A staggering percentage of the U.S. prison population is jailed for petty crimes for which incarceration is not an effective solution.
The San Francisco Sheriff’s Department has rescinded its application for $80 million in state funding to pay for a new County Jail to replace…
Less than a month after the Board of Supervisors unanimously rejected a new $380 million jail to replace the decrepit Hall of Justice at…
City Hall told the Sheriff’s Department yesterday that it’s perfectly okay with plans for a jail, except for that little part about building a…
After weeks of controversy and a high stakes game of legislative musical chairs set off by the election of Supervisor Aaron Peskin, the San…