In 2011, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. signed Assembly Bill (AB) 109 and AB 117, historic legislation that has helped enable California to close the revolving door of low-level inmates cycling in and out of state prisons. It is the cornerstone of California’s solution for reducing the number of inmates in the state’s 33 prison to 137.5 percent of design capacity by June 27, 2013, as ordered by the Three-Judge Court and affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court. All provisions of AB 109 and AB 117 are prospective and implementation of the 2011 Realignment Legislation began October 1, 2011.
California Prison Realignment to put more low-level offenders on the streets...
To trim its bulging prison population and cut costs, California is about to gamle on a strategy no other state has tried...
When the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation published its Public Safety Realignment of 2011 program, officials promised changes to the state's parole system...