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| Calif. copes with flood of released prisoners, many homeless |
| By america.aljazeera.com- Haya El Nasser |
| Published: 08/14/2014 |
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The waiting room at the Riverside County Adult Services Division on Franklin Street was filling up. Names were called and people filed in to report to their probation officers. About 130 people file through the lobby daily. But some walked in and went straight to one of two machines that look like bank ATMs. They entered their PIN, answered a few questions about employment and residence, and a camera snapped their photo. In a few minutes, they were checked in and got a receipt to prove it. On a recent Thursday, 16-year-old Maira Lopez Becerra accompanied her father, Benito Lopez Ruiz, 45, on his quarterly visit to the probation department. A firearm possession charge in 2012 sent the truck driver to county jail for 270 days with three years probation. Read More. |
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