It was another busy week in the world of public safety realignment in California as the argument continues over the implementation of AB 109 and AB 117 signed by Governor Brown in 2011, historic legislation that has helped enable California to close the revolving door of low-level inmates cycling in and out of state prisons.

It is the cornerstone of California’s solution for reducing the number of inmates in the state’s 33 prison to 137.5 percent of design capacity as ordered by the Three-Judge Panel and affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court. The original order set the deadline for June 27, 2013 but the Three-Judge Panel recently extended that deadline by six months…

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