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Bid to divert California prisoners to county jails denounced

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

From the Los Angeles Times Bid to divert California prisoners to county jails denounced Local officials say they don't have the room or the funding to house the low-level felons that the governor wants to send them. By Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Richard Winton May 23, 2009 Local officials have vowed to fight a proposal by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to shave $1 billion from the state budget by shifting 23,000 state prisoners to overcrowded local jails during the next three years. "This presents a serious danger to public safety," said Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley. "We are putting in jeopardy gains that have resulted in crime plunging in L.A. to its lowest level in 50 years." The state's 33 prisons house about 155,000 inmates and are under a federal court order to relieve overcrowding...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 23, 2009 (boomark / email).