The U.S. Supreme Court ordered California to significantly reduce its prison population three years ago. Since then, Governor Jerry Brown has been hard at work trying to meet those goals.

Last year, he declared the prison emergency over, but the numbers tell a different story.

"Prison costs have actually not gone down, they've increased," L.A. Times reporter Paige St. John tells Take Two. According to St John's analysis of the data, the state will pay an additional $2 billion this year.

Much of that is due to the costs of sending inmates to local counties and taking care of the prison population diverted to the local level, says St. John. That population is also increasing, after an initial drop after the reforms took effect. Currently it's at 135,000 and rising.

St. John notes that there's been a push to build rehabilitation and education programs for inmates.

"But it's going to be a number of years until that expansion is finished, so for the time being, we're looking at continued early releases from jail," she said.