November 30, 2011
Realignment sentences give long jail terms to inmates
Inland officials are facing lengthy consequences from the state’s new law to house nonviolent convicts in county jail instead of state prison.
The realignment law, AB109, which took effect Oct. 1, was presented as capping county jail sentences at three years. That isn’t happening.
As an example, on Tuesday a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge sentenced Dr. Conrad Murray to four years in county jail on his involuntary manslaughter conviction in the death of Michael Jackson...
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