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2013 Review: The status of California's prison realignment plan
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Dec 31, 2013
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2013 Review: The status of California's prison realignment plan
California's prison realignment plan has been in place for just over two years now. KPCC crime reporter Rina Palta joins the show to talk about where it stands as we head into 2014.
Double-tiered bunks are seen in one of the cells at a formerly closed housing unit at the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center, in Elk Grove, Calif. that was scheduled to be reopened to handle the increase of inmates sentenced under the new prison realignment program.
Double-tiered bunks are seen in one of the cells at a formerly closed housing unit at the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center, in Elk Grove, Calif. that was scheduled to be reopened to handle the increase of inmates sentenced under the new prison realignment program.
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California's prison realignment plan has been in place for just over two years now. KPCC crime reporter Rina Palta joins the show to talk about where it stands as we head into 2014.

Prison overcrowding has been a persistent problem in California. In 2011, the Supreme Court ruled the state's prisons couldn't humanely accommodate the number of inmates in the system

To deal with the problem, the state implemented AB109, also known as prison realignment. That controversial policy has been in place for just over two years now. KPCC crime reporter Rina Palta joins the show to talk about where it stands as we head into 2014.