Last week, while defiantly declaring the end of California’s prison crisis, Gov. Jerry Brown insisted further reductions in prison overcrowding “cannot be achieved without the early release of inmates serving time for serious or violent felonies”
Merced County Sheriff Mark Pazin acknowledges more inmates are released early in the wake of AB-109, but he points to a new report from the center on juvenile and criminal justice. It says FBI statistics show realigning offenders is not connected with increases in crime.
Blog Jan 24, 2013
Community-based practices that repair harm
In the field of juvenile and criminal justice you often hear a buzzing in your ears and it’s the sound of buzz words like “restorative justice.” Words highlighting model practices are often utilized widely in this field, but what do these practices really mean. What do these practices really look like when implemented in the community?
Public policy groups are seizing on new statistics from the FBI to claim California’s prison realignment plan is causing “significant increases” in crime, even as others say the numbers show no connection at all.
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Analyzing newly released FBI data — the first full crime figures published since Realignment — CJCJ found no correlation between Realignment and crime trends.