Partnership for Community Excellence

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.

This week has seen the fervor over both the CDCR report, Gov. Brown’s May budget revision and Abel Maldonado’s failed bid to turn public safety realignment into an election wedge issue finally taper off.

The tide is turning. It has been for a while now on public safety realignment.

In a sign that public safety realignment is gaining prominence, Gov. Jerry Brown touched on the issue in his short statement on his May budget revision

Campaign season for the 2014 elections is already heating up and public safety realignment is fast becoming one of the most politicized topics.

We have no way to determine if realignment is working or will work because no money was put into research

This week we discuss the alarming lack of data being collected on AB 109 and how such data could be put to good use if the state would simply require it and provide funding.

With all of the speculation and prognostication surrounding public safety realignment, arithmetic provides the most succinct summary of what is happening. We give you our public safety realignment weekly digest.