By Marisa Lagos, KQED News Fix/The California Report
Thursday marks the four-year anniversary of realignment, Gov. Jerry Brown’s attempt to comply with a federal court order to lower the state prison population without the wholesale early release of prisoners.
The change in the law allowed nonviolent offenders to serve their time in local jails instead of state prisons, and shifted responsibility for many getting out of prison to local probation departments.
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