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Gov. Schwarzenegger and the "Devolution Solution"

By Jonathan Simor

Readers of this blog will know that I've argued for a long time that county government, with its more realistic view of crime and local knowledge, can hold the key to resolving our endless prison crisis if they can take back their prisoners and the resources locked up in state prisons. Hidden in the depths of his "May Budget Revisions" (the adjustments to the annual January budge proposal that is based on actual revenue returns during April tax season and thus considered far more realistic) Governor Schwarzenegger has included a proposal to have some state prisoners serve their time at the county level.To improve the success of felony probationers, and other offenders supervised or programmed at the local level, and reduce jail and prison incarceration, the Administration proposes a system of block grants to provide evidence?based programming and other probation and jail services at the local level...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on May 21, 2010 (boomark / email).