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| County jails to house lower-risk offenders |
| By recorderonline.com - ALEX K.W. SCHULTZ |
| Published: 07/21/2011 |
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Non-sex offenders, non-violent offenders and non-serious offenders, all of whom would normally go to state prisons under traditional sentencing standards, will instead soon be housed in county jails as part of a realignment effort designed to help the state cut costs. Offenders who are convicted on or after Aug. 1 of a non-sex crime, a non-violent crime or a non-serious crime will be booked into a county facility, Tulare County Sheriff’s Department Capt. Robin Skiles said. Skiles made sure to stress that Gov. Jerry Brown’s call for realignment has nothing to do with the Supreme Court’s decision in late May to reduce the state’s prison population by 33,000 inmates. “They’re not going to release those inmates into our county,” Skiles said. “They’re not going to be sending us inmates.” Skiles said Tulare County, on average, sends a total of about 500 non-sex offenders, non-violent offenders and non-serious offenders a year to state prisons. The county, which is currently home to about 1,600 inmates, has four jails and a day-reporting center. Skiles did say that 234 beds at the county’s adult pretrial facility are currently available because of an inmate shift that occurred three weeks ago and because the state recently decided to not renew a contract that sent state prisoners to county jails for a temporary amount of time. Read More. |
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