"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.
State Incarceration Becomes Local Incarceration
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- Anat Rubin - Marshall Project - @marshallproj
- Margarita Perez - Los Angeles County Probation Department - @LACProbation
- Peter Eliasberg - ACLU of Southern California - @ACLU_SoCal