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| Sonoma County sending fewer repeat criminals to state prison |
| By pressdemocrat.com/- Paul Payne |
| Published: 03/17/2014 |
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Sonoma County is bucking a statewide trend that is threatening to undo efforts to relieve prison overcrowding by sending away fewer inmates convicted of second felonies and parole violations. The number of “two-strikers” sent to prison in Sonoma County in the fiscal year ending in June dropped by about 30 percent, according to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. At the same time, the state's 58 counties sent 20 percent more serious, violent or sex offenders convicted of a second felony to prison, the department said. Because they serve double sentences, second-strikers are a concern as prison officials try to meet a federal court mandate to reduce its 117,000-inmate population by 2016. The trend comes on the heels of a 2011 restructuring of the criminal justice system that shifted responsibility for lower level criminals to counties. Read More. |
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