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Assistant chief probation officer with the Los Angeles County Probation Department
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Margarita Perez
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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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Prison Realignment and the Early Release of Jail Inmates Three years ago, the US Supreme court ruled that overcrowding in California’s prisons violated prisoners constitutional rights. The Brown Administration then instituted “realignment,” which means sending convicts for lesser crimes to county jails instead of state prisons. But there is no system of oversight—or even data collection—to determine the impact. So the LA Times conducted its own investigation .
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