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March 8, 2012 | 4:59 PM | By

California to dish out $602 million for jail construction

The Corrections Standards Authority today approved $602,881,000 in funds for jail construction projects in 11 counties, the second phase in what’s now a $1.2 billion investment in county jails.

Los Angeles will receive $100 million, as will Riverside and Orange counties. Smaller grants will go to Santa Barbara, Tulare, Stanislaus, Kings, Shasta, Sutter, Madera, and Imperial counties.

Originally authorized in 2007 under AB 900, the allocations were recently kicked into gear to help counties deal with increased responsibility for low-level offenders under AB 109, the state’s prison realignment plan.

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FILED UNDER: Corrections, AB 900, Realignment
November 18, 2011 | 12:26 PM | By

California invests $600K in new jail beds

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On October 1, 2011, California experienced a major change to its criminal justice system. After the Supreme Court ordered the state to drastically reduce its prison population, the Legislature decided to shift responsibility for a wide variety of offenders to the local level. I sat down with KALW’s Holly Kernan to discuss how the shift’s playing out.

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FILED UNDER: Corrections, AB 109, AB 900, Budget, Realignment
September 15, 2011 | 12:01 PM | By

Is building a new jail the answer for San Mateo county?

By Nicole Jones

With the reality of realignment just weeks away, California county officials are scrambling to make decisions on how to deal with thousands of new level low-level offenders and parole violators previously handled by the state.

All and all, county jails and probation departments are expected to absorb as many as 40,000 new offenders.

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FILED UNDER: Corrections, AB 900, Budget, Greg Munks, Prison Overcrowding, Realignment, San Mateo County