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Marshall Project
Reporter covering California for the Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization that covers the US criminal justice system
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Anat Rubin
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FROM Anat Rubin
Which Way, L.A.?
State Incarceration Becomes Local Incarceration "Realignment" was enacted three years ago to reduce over-crowding in California prisons. Low-level convicts would go to the 58 counties, and they were supposed to create cheaper alternatives to incarceration. But, that's not how it's turning out. Instead of spending on treatment programs and rehabilitation, the counties are using new money to build new jails. Anat Rubin covers California for the Marshall Project , a nonprofit news organization.
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