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| Fewer prison inmates eligible for transfer to county jails |
| By nctimes.com - Michael Montgomery |
| Published: 11/05/2012 |
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As California struggles to meet a court-ordered reduction of its prison population, newly released figures show corrections officials overstated the number of low-level offenders eligible to be diverted to local jurisdictions as part of Gov. Jerry Brown's public safety realignment plan. At issue are inmates who were being sent to state prisons for parole and other technical violations and became eligible to serve their sentences in county jails after Oct. 1, 2011. Corrections officials long have argued that the churn of low-level felons in and out of state prisons was a major factor in overcrowding. Closing the revolving door to prison by sending those offenders to county jails instead - as envisioned under realignment - would be a major element in resolving the crisis, they said. Read More. |
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