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Government

Sep. 28, 2012

ACLU report probes impacts of realignment legislation

With Monday's one-year anniversary of realignment, the ACLU is one of many organizations looking at initial results of the law and exploring what can be done to improve the policy going forward.


By Henry Meier


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Has criminal justice reform gone far enough with the passage of last year's realignment legislation?


That's the question posed by an American Civil Liberties Union report released Thursday. With Monday's first anniversary of the law shifting responsibility of tens of thousands of inmates from state prison and parole to local jurisdictions, the organization is one of many looking at the init...

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