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| Committee OK's controversial prison realignment budget |
| By bakersfield.com - JAMES BURGER |
| Published: 09/22/2011 |
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A committee of Kern County leaders chose Wednesday to spend the bulk of $10.8 million in state money for prison realignment on incarceration and supervision of criminals during the next nine months. And that tack, critics said, is exactly what landed California's prison system in the mess it's in. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation will stop accepting non-violent, non-sexual, non-serious felons into state prisons Oct. 1. Counties will pick up that responsibility. And select state parolees will gradually shift to county probation departments as well, setting up a chain reaction of impacts to hospitals, social service agencies, job training organizations, mental health services and drug treatment programs. On Wednesday, Kern's Community Corrections Partnership council decided how to fund local programs affected by the shift, involving about 1,000 prisoners and a similar number of probationers. Forty-three percent of the money would go to Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood for new deputies, jail beds and programs to manage inmates. Forty percent would go to Kern County Chief Probation Officer David Kuge. The rest would be divided up among mental health, drug treatment and job training programs. Read More. |
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