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Take Two

2013 Review: The status of California's prison realignment plan

By Take Two Staff
Published Dec 31, 2013
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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Rich Pedroncelli/AP
)

Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.

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2013 Review: The status of California's prison realignment plan

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.