Partnership for Community Excellence

A recent extension granted by the three judge panel provides an extra month to get all parties on board with a solution for the final shift of inmates out of state prisons

Regardless of what the court dictates with respect to SB 105, California must continue to embrace this shift long-term as it is the only true means of attacking recidivism at the source

In three weeks, it has gone from head-butting to hand-shaking over exactly how to go about reducing California’s state prison population by another 8,500 inmates

Part 3 has her discussing the potential benefits of the upcoming Affordable Care Act (ACA) implementation to Los Angeles County’s jail system and what she sees as the future of AB 109.

Tom Hoffman, a former longtime police officer and Director of Adult Parole Operations in California, weighs in on the complications and potential of AB 109.

One standoff ended only to see another one begin this week as Gov. Brown introduced his prison plan and Sen. Steinberg countered.

Here in Part 2, she discusses her decision to come work for L.A. County and the challenges she has faced since joined early in 2013.

We present this conversation in hopes that our readers gain an appreciation for both the complexity of public safety realignment and the rigor of implementing it properly and cost-effectively in such a massive county.

Jeffrey Berryman represents both the old world and the new world in public safety realignment.