Partnership for Community Excellence

This week in Realignment: August 16, 2013
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Realignment can become a great California success story if we play our cards right in the coming years.

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Federal Realignment following California’s lead
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Yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder released a three page memo and gave a landmark speech to the American Bar Association (ABA) outlining the Obama administration’s dramatic philosophical shift toward drug-related crimes

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This week in Realignment: August 9, 2013
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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

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This week in Realignment: August 2, 2013
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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?

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The ACA is coming: Riverside and San Bernardino start talking about “Obamacare”
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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.

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This week in Realignment: July 19, 2013
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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

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This week in Realignment: July 12, 2013
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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

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This week in Realignment: July 5, 2013
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We leave you with two quick bullet points heading into this holiday weekend.

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This week in Realignment: June 28, 2013
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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.

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