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| CALIFORNIA: County jails taking in more repeat felons |
| By pe.com- Brian Rokos |
| Published: 07/09/2015 |
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Fewer ex-felons are returning to state prisons, according to a report released Wednesday, July 8 -- but that’s because many of them are going to county jails instead when they reoffend. The trend is affecting the safety of inmates and staff at Inland jails. The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said 54 percent of felons released during the 2009-2010 fiscal year were back behind prison walls within three years, the time period for which the recidivism rate is calculated. That’s down from 61 percent reported a year ago and down from a high of 67.5 percent for inmates released from prison a decade ago, when California had one of the nation’s highest recidivism rates. The decline coincides with the passage in October 2011 of AB 109, popularly known as Realignment, to reduce crowding in state prisons. Counties became responsible for inmates released from state prison whose most recent crimes were classified as non-serious, nonviolent and, for sex offenders, non-high risk. Criminals newly convicted of those same crimes now serve their sentences in county jails instead of prisons. Read More. |
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