Criminal
Jan. 31, 2012
Realignment means some offenders choosing jail over probation
In an unintended consequence of realignment, some criminal offenders are willing to take hard time over probation because county jails cannot handle the flood of new inmates coming from state prisons .
Daily Journal Staff Writer
In an unintended consequence of realignment, some criminal offenders who commit misdemeanors and low level felonies are choosing to take hard time over probation because county jails have been forced to release people early to accommodate new inmates.
Barely four months into the shift - spurred by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring California to reduce its prison population - evidence remains anecdo...
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