Government
Jan. 21, 2012
Counties see more prisoner transfers than expected
County probation departments across the state are receiving a flood of former prison inmates to supervise as part of realignment - with some counties receiving nearly three times the projections.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Probation officials in San Bernardino were told to expect 284 former state prison inmates in December as part of California's ongoing prison diversion effort.
State corrections officials later revised that number to 430. It was still way off.
The state sent 592 released prison inmates to the county for probation services last month, according to Deputy Chief Probation Officer Audulio Ric...
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