News and Media Coverage

One year later, local agencies wrestle with jail realignment - The Orange County Register, November 15, 2012

Realignment Changes Corrections Landscape - Independent Voter Network, October 11, 2012
Realignment aims to create a more cost-effective corrections system that will maintain or further reduce California's historically low crime rate.

San Francisco boasts of prison-realignment successes - San Francisco Examiner, October 1, 2012

L.A. County computer screening could produce get-out-of-jail card - Los Angeles Times
Under pressure to release inmates early, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department is using a computer program to help identify inmates at low risk of committing crimes if let out of jail.  August 31, 2012

L.A. County computer screening could reduce inmate population - latimes.com
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is turning to a new computer software intended to help officials determine which inmates seem least likely to commit new crimes in an effort to reduce the jail population. August 31, 2012

State says it can't reduce inmate total - SFGate 
California officials, under U.S. Supreme Court orders to lower the population of its crowded prisons by 33,000 to bring a shoddy health care system up to constitutional standards, say they can't comply and shouldn't have to. August 18, 2012

California balks at providing inmate release plan - latimes.com
Instead of complying with the demand from federal judges, the state wants them to suspend enforcement of prison crowding limits. August 18, 2012

The Latest Report: LA among counties sending more to prison - 89.3 KPCC
A new report by the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) echoes widespread concerns California may not be on track to reduce its prison population quickly enough to comply with a federal court order. August 17, 2012