Criminal
Dec. 31, 2013
Realignment subjects local jails to legal threat
The very type of lawsuit that forced the state to reduce its prison population - based on the notion that overcrowding had caused unconstitutional deficiencies in inmate care - could now be aimed at jails.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
From overcrowding to increased violence, county jails across the state say they seeing the consequences of California's overhauled prison system.
Under the 2011 law known as realignment, responsibility for low-level felons transferred from state prisons to county jails. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation describes the plan as the "cornerstone" of the state's...
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