Community Services

Now that reducing state prison headcount by another 10,000 is a reality with a rapidly approaching end-of-year deadline, Sacramento must buckle down and figure out how to make it happen

The challenge is this: What happens psychologically to inmates when all of a sudden they are told they are told that they are entitled to the same level of care that you and I are?

Many do not realize that the new law has a massive criminal justice component to it and that California will be throwing away countless amounts of money and opportunity if counties aren’t prepared.

The Partnership for Community Excellence is holding a series of regional convenings across the state of California to discuss the benefits of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to counties

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is set to be a massive boon for California jails dealing with the generally poor health and lack of health insurance among its inmate population

We leave you with two quick bullet points heading into this holiday weekend.

With the overcrowding that used to exist in state prisons now transplanted to county jails, the question of where to send 10,000 more inmates looms larger than ever.

Split sentencing arrived as a result of AB 109, legislation that explicitly states it was “not intended to alleviate state prison overcrowding” yet it has been the primary solution to overcrowding

Now that the fervor of May has died down, we have seek a marked increase in the number of stories talking about the more human side of realignment.