Criminal
Aug. 18, 2011
Inmate realignment debated
The state hopes to reduce its high prisoner recidivism rate, get offenders into treatment and ease prison overcrowding by moving low-level offenders to county jails, but some worry the shift will lead to a public safety crisis.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A 57-year-old man from Sacramento County who's cycled in and out of the state's prison system is wrapping up an eight-year sentence for a drug offense. But when he's released in a few months, his home county will take over supervision of his parole. If the man commits another low-level offense - and statistics suggest that he will - he'll end up in the county jail, not state prison.
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