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CA: Brown's prison plan has a hitch: County jails are overcrowded, too

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Brown's prison plan has a hitch: County jails are overcrowded, too By Brad Branan Sacramento Bee Page 1B Jan. 18, 2011 Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to transfer state inmates to county jails faces a simple obstacle: Many jails don't have the space to hold them. Just as the state has struggled with prison overcrowding, some counties have had their own problems keeping inmates locked up. Statewide, tens of thousands of inmates are released early from county jails each year because of space constraints. Jail crowding was on the minds of many sheriffs when Brown announced in his budget proposal last week his plan to give them responsibility for more than 40,000 lower-level offenders and parole violators. "We don't have the space," said Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones, who once ran the county's two jails...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 20, 2011 (boomark / email).