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Study: Calif. prison changes boost property crime: Dec 9, 2013; Executive Director Daniel Macallair discusses property crime in a post-Realignment era.
Monterey County has among highest imprisonment rates: Sep 13, 2013; A report released this week by a nonprofit advocacy group, the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, says there are wide disparities across California in how state prisoner realignment is being…
Counties' continued disparities in Realignment implementation: Sep 10, 2013; Fact sheet on county-by-county implementation of AB 109 Realignment using data through June 30, 2013.
Easing California’s Prison Crisis via Private Prisons is a Bad Idea: Randall Shelden, Ph.D., Sep 10, 2013; Private prisons are not the answer to California's prison overcrowding crisis.
Post-Realignment prison admissions increase in 2013: Sep 10, 2013; Fact sheet analyzing new prison admissions by quarter shows admissions for property and drug crimes are on the rise in 2013.
Four ways to better manage jail bed space: Kate McCracken, Aug 27, 2013; Under Realignment some counties , in which the local justice systems rely heavily on incarceration, are putting extra pressure on their sheriffs to manage their burgeoning jail populations safely. A…
Jail Population Management Strategies in a Post-Realignment Era: Aug 27, 2013; This fact sheet lists four available deliberate interventions that counties can employ to alleviate jail bed space and improve public safety outcomes.
Calif. counties seek to reduce re-offense rate: Aug 25, 2013; Realignment creates an opportunity for local jursdictions to implement community-based interventions for individuals who have been charged with non-serious, non-sexual, and non-violent offenses.
The Impact of Non-Criminal Immigrant Detentions in California: Brian Goldstein, Aug 6, 2013; According to a new CJCJ report, California’s counties have spent significant resources and jail capacity, often at their own expense, to detain suspected undocumented immigrants who do not have…
Detention of non-criminal individuals has impact on post-Realignment California: Aug 5, 2013; CJCJ releases report examining the large number of suspected undocumented immigrants, without a criminal history, who are detained in California’s local jails on non-mandatory holds.
Report: Releasing undocumented immigrants could help relieve Calif.'s jail overcrowding: Aug 5, 2013; A new report from the Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice suggests California jails could alleviate overcrowding by refusing to detain non-criminals accused of immigration violations.
Línea Abierta : REALINEACION: ¿BENEFICIO O PLAGA?: Jun 19, 2013; CJCJ's NoVA case manager, José Luis Gómez, participates in an interview with Radio Bilingüe in which he emphasizes that Realignment is not just about reducing the overall prison…
Brown’s revised budget discriminates against the mentally ill: Lizzie Buchen, May 24, 2013; Brown's budget revives a killed bill that requires state parole, rather than community supervision, for certain people who have suffered from mental illness.
REALIGNMENT: Is it to blame for more crime?: Apr 19, 2013; Riverside County struggling with overcrowded jails and an uptick in violent crime, chronic unemployment cited as a factor.
Realignment in Los Angeles County: Apr 9, 2013; A closer examination of LA county's unique realignment trends.
Report smacks Monterey County for sending more than its share of felons to prison.: Apr 4, 2013; By sending more non-violent felons to prison than the state average, Monterey County isn’t doing as much as it could to help efforts for prison realignment, according to a new report.
Up Front: Apr 1, 2013; Senior Research Fellow, Mike Males, discusses Realignment's impact on county-by-county disparities.
CJCJ Newsletter - Latest on AB 109 and juvenile justice reform: Mar 29, 2013; CJCJ forges ahead with reform efforts in 2013
Beyond Realignment: Counties’ large disparities in imprisonment underlie ongoing prison crisis: Mar 21, 2013; California’s crises of prison overcrowding, unsustainable costs, and court-ordered population reductions are perpetuated by the disparate implementation of Realignment.
NEW REPORT: counties’ large disparities in imprisonment underlie ongoing prison crisis: Mar 21, 2013; IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CJCJ report analyzes new data from the last quarter of 2012. Finds county disparities contribute to prison crisis and impact all CA taxpayers.
Officials find no easy conclusions in prison realignment review: Mar 20, 2013; Nearly 18 months after the state's prison realignment law took effect, Merced officials agree the jury is still out on whether it meets its intended goals.
Merced sheriff unveils vision for AB 109 locally with new Trident Center: Feb 28, 2013; Merced County Sheriff Mark Pazin on Thursday unveiled a new one-stop shop to provide various services to county jail inmates released under the guidelines established by Assembly Bill 109, the…
Overall crime down in Merced County's unincorporated areas: Feb 19, 2013; Overall crime in the county's unincorporated areas went down more than 5 percent in 2012, according to data released by the Merced County Sheriff's Department this month.
Daniel Macallair presenting at the California Correctional Crisis 2013: Feb 15, 2013; On March 21-22, 2013, the Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal, the UC Hastings Criminal Justice Institute, and the California Correctional Crisis Blog will present a symposium adrressing…
Monterey County works to track data on realignment, crime rate: Feb 9, 2013; Now, despite the somewhat quixotic nature of the quest, Monterey County officials are working to come up with a more fact-based view of local crime and whether state prisoner realignment plays any…