Sacramento Criminal Defense Lawyers

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is happy to announce that it has approved funding for a realignment program. The Community Corrections Program has allocated $13.1 million in funds to transition state prisoners into local supervision. About 61% of this money will go to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department to reopen a jail and provide more beds for inmates while the remaining $5 million will be given to Sacramento County Chief Probation Officer Don L. Meyer.

The realignment program is aimed at providing low-level offenders treatment and training programs without having to associate with high-level offenders. A big problem with the current system is that placing the low-level offenders with higher-level offenders increases recidivism rates and often helps facilitate the low-level offenders in creating worse crimes.

The idea behind the realignment program is that with a large number of lower-level offenders an approach targeting the way that a person thinks and lives in addition to their family and their social groups offers a high probability of reducing recidivism rates. In addition the the societal savings of having lower crime rates, there is also a large monetary savings thanks to reduced costs in having to pay for people to be incarcerated.