August 15, 2011
CMC reduction possibilities in the news
The new law implemented by Gov. Jerry Brown that will send low-level, nonviolent offenders to county jails instead of prison will ultimately lead to layoffs at the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo. Exactly how many jobs will be cut is still unknown.
The law shifts the responsibility of incarcerating certain low-level offenders sentenced after Oct. 1 from the state prison system to county jails. The move — called realignment — will put an estimated 140 additional low-level inmates in San Luis Obispo County Jail at the end of the law’s implementation four years from now.
Concerns raised about women's jail and CMC by county grand jury...
LINK - SanLuisObispo.com
