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Bay Area law enforement leaders discuss move of inmates to local jails

By: Bay City News 08/24/11 10:43 PM
Jerry Brown
Several district attorneys and other officials from counties around the Bay Area met in San Francisco on Wednesday to discuss recent California legislation that will soon put many offenders and parolees under local rather than state supervision. Read More

San Francisco faces spending bump as new inmates flood into jails

By: Joshua Sabatini 07/23/11 11:00 AM
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The influx of hundreds of state inmates into San Francisco jails will force The City to spend millions more dollars and heighten its challenge of keeping ex-convicts out of trouble. San Francisco is preparing for an increase of about 700 inmates and parolees within the next year as a result of the state’s so-called realignment plan. The shifting of state prisoners to San Francisco and other counties is projected to save the state $1.4 billion. Read More

Ruling on prison overcrowding could slam San Mateo County jails

By: Niko Kyriakou 06/11/11 8:00 AM
San Mateo County jails
Unless San Mateo County finds somewhere to put the state prisoners who are about to flood into county jails, local authorities might have to become soft on crime with measures such as early release and reduced sentences for minor offenses, Sheriff Greg Munks said this week. Read More

US Supreme Court opens California prison doors

By: Ken Klukowski 05/26/11 11:30 PM
In a shocking and unprecedented move, the U.S. Supreme Court suddenly discovered that overcrowded prisons are unconstitutional. As a result, it has ordered as many as 46,000 convicted felons to be released in California.Congress enacted the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 specifying ways for managing prison populations and leaving it to state officials on how to achieve acceptable results. The law states that prison overcrowding can possibly violate federal rights. Read More

Prison moves during first term come back to haunt Jerry Brown

By: Dan Walters 05/25/11 7:13 PM
History should record the late 1970s as an era of pivotal socio-economic change in California — a new wave of international migration, a shift from an industrial to a post-industrial economy and a new baby boom. Political events also abounded, topped by passage of Proposition 13, but including collective bargaining for public employees, expansion of mail-in voting, a decline in major-party registration and the eruption of crime as a powerful issue. By happenstance, Jerry Brown Read More

Tougher state law needed to keep cellphones out of prisons

By: Dan Walters 03/27/11 8:00 AM
California state Sen. Alex Padilla, flanked by law enforcement officials, stood on the Capitol’s steps before an array of cellphones confiscated from prison inmates and declared that smuggling had become an epidemic. It is, Padilla said, a “clear and present danger to public safety” as inmates use smuggled phones to harass victims and witnesses and plot other crimes. He called to the podium a woman who said she received harassing calls from her husband’s murderer. Read More

San Francisco, Peninsula jails brace for extra inmates

By: Shaun Bishop 03/27/11 4:00 AM
County jails
Jails and probation departments in San Francisco and San Mateo counties could be responsible for hundreds of new low-level offenders — and potentially significant new costs — under a state plan to shift some convicts to local governments, officials said. Read More
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