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Law Enforcement Admits Jail Realignment Has Been A Game Changer

Law Enforcement Admits Jail Realignment Has Been A Game Changer

It’s been a little more than 36 months since the controversial California inmate realignment took place; since that time, certain sentenced inmates are serving their time at county lock ups instead of state prisons.

The shift was in response to a flurry of lawsuits relating to poor conditions, abysmal medical care and widespread overcrowding.  Eventually, the Supreme Court intervened and ordered…

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CA Jails Report A Spike In Drug Smuggling Efforts

CA Jails Report A Spike In Drug Smuggling Efforts

Jails throughout the country have always had problems with people trying to smuggle drugs into their facilities but now, California lock ups say that some parolees are getting rearrested in hopes of being able to bring contraband in themselves.

It all started when the prisoner realignment program started, they said, when the state ordered certain low-level offenders serve their sentences at local…

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Sonoma Jails May Start Releasing Low-Level Offenders Much Sooner

Sonoma Jails May Start Releasing Low-Level Offenders Much Sooner

The California inmate realignment program, which shifted certain non-serious, non-sexual and non-violent offenders from state prisons to county jails, is still causing challenges at the local level.

Officials at the Sonoma County Jail, for example, say they’ll soon be releasing additional people through a pretrial assessment program in order to free up bed space.

Starting on Dec. 1, if the jail…

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CA Prisoner Realignment: The Long-Term Plan

CA Prisoner Realignment: The Long-Term Plan

In the wake of California’s prisoner realignment program, county lockups have found themselves needing to resolve two key things.  Number one, many of these facilities are old and in dire need of replacement or upgrades.

Number two- the detention centers need to better plan for how to hot only hold more inmates, but how to handle long-term housing, health care needs of those who are serving time.

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OC Jails Evaluating Programs To Help Reduce Recidivism

OC Jails Evaluating Programs To Help Reduce Recidivism

Officials in Orange County say they will likely expand their efforts to keep former inmates from committing new crimes once they are released.

This is all part of California’s efforts to cut inmate populations at both prisons and the county jails.  Inmate overcrowding has long been a problem for the Golden State, according to sources, and it’s gotten to the point where the Supreme Court has found…

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How Flawed Is GPS Tracking Technology?

How Flawed Is GPS Tracking Technology?

These days, thanks to jail realignment, more and more inmates are being released from custody using GPS monitoring devices.

Some of them have yet to be convicted; others have been sentenced for their crimes.  Recent reports show that in Orange County, two convicted sex offenders who were released from the Orange County Jail on ankle-bracelet monitoring are now facing murder charges.

Both men had…

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Profiting From Prisoners

Profiting From Prisoners

Private prisons first made an appearance in 1984 and quickly began to grow over the next two decades.

While there are many who believe that private prison systems can reduce the cost of housing inmates for state budgets, there are others who feel that it is a corrupt system that does nothing more than work to make a profit instead of working to rehabilitate prisoners.

Back in August, we took a…

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