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Can you help put in context how California got into this situation?\u003c/strong>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Francis Cullen, former president, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences\"]'We spend money on punishment, building prisons and locking people away for a long time. So why can't we spend money on things that are humane and effective?'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>FRANCIS CULLEN:\u003c/strong> It used to be the model of prisons in the country. Even when Ronald Reagan was the governor of California, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/04/09/large-scale-releases/\">cut the prison population\u003c/a> from about 26,000 to 18,000. They used to have a big treatment orientation, they hired social workers, and basically it was at the forefront of a rehabilitative model of incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then in the ‘60s and into the ‘70s, there was an attack on rehabilitation, for a whole bunch of reasons. But the biggest reason is, if you have a rehabilitation model, then you give a lot of discretion to judges and parole boards. In 1976, California … went to determinate sentencing, and basically gave up rehabilitation as a part of their mission. And you gotta understand, liberals went along with that, because they didn’t like parole. They felt the parole boards were keeping in people that were politically active and weren’t letting them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2006/jun/15/california-legislature-reorganizes-doc-to-add-rehabilitation/\">“Rehabilitation” would be added to the prison system’s name in 2006.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California became punitive with its politics. The things that were done, not just in California, but generally, were all justified on the notion that we want inmates to suffer. The more they suffer, the less likely they will be to reoffend, which actually isn’t true. But that was the logic. And the result, I think, was a disaster. When you get rid of rehabilitation, you take the conscience out of the system.[aside postID=\"news_11926841,news_11924214,news_11918025\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003cstrong>In California this year, we had what has been called \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/criminal-justice/2022/06/prison-rehabilitation-norway-model/\">the “Norway Prison Bill,”\u003c/a> which would have created a pilot program in prisons, with campuses that resemble the prisons in Norway — prisoners who were chosen could cook their own meals and live in communal spaces while getting job training. Newsom vetoed it along with two other measures related to prisons. His veto message wasn’t that these won’t work — it was that we cannot afford to spend the money right now. How do you respond to that assertion?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was stupid to veto that legislation for this reason: The Norway model works. Now, would it work here in the United States, where you have issues of race and other conflict in prison? We have a different population here, we have racial conflict, we have other issues. But having said that, why not do an experiment?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is, if you did a Norway unit in our prison, you could have studied it for its effectiveness. Can I say definitively that it would have worked here? No. Do I think it would have? Yes, because the principles make sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have had court cases showing that the medical treatment of inmates is insufficient and the conditions in prison are bad. The recidivism rate is high, and there’s a lot of [probation] revocations. It seems to me that arguing that we shouldn’t spend money is a pretty weak rationale. We spend money on punishment, building prisons and locking people away for a long time. So why can’t we spend money on things that are humane and effective?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other problem with this is, if you don’t invest in people and they come out and they commit crimes, do people understand the cost of that? There was one study that looked at the cost of, if somebody is a juvenile and becomes a serious offender for a number of years, it’s like $1.3 million dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not wanting to spend money, when spending money is the only way you invest in people and make them less criminal — it saves money later on. How much is that worth to you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California had a major prison realignment in 2011. Now, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/09/california-solitary-confinement-bill/\">the sheriffs who run county jails\u003c/a> say that realignment simply shifted prison populations — and prison politics and prison gangs — into jails. You’ve written, specific to realignment, that “\u003ca href=\"https://law.stanford.edu/publications/liberal-but-not-stupid-meeting-the-promise-of-downsizing-prisons/\">successful downsizing must be liberal but not stupid\u003c/a>.” What’s a liberal idea here, and what in your view is a stupid one?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we’re basically saying by \"liberal\" is concern for social justice, not focusing on punishment — an attempt to see that crime is rooted in diverse factors, whether it’s poverty or mental health concerns, rather than saying that crime is just simply a choice, that we need to get tough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not stupid\" meant that whatever we do in the system should be evidence-based, based on the best science, so the interventions we use should be based on what criminology has shown works to change people’s behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question is, when liberals make suggestions about what to do, are they making it based on ideology? Are they making it based on science? Are they looking at the research? Recommending programs that are not rooted in solid science can end up being stupid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s take bail reform. Now, I’m not against bail reform. There’s some evidence that it works, right? But some bail laws don’t pay enough attention to the risk that people pose. You’ve had problems in San Francisco, where they recalled the prosecutor (\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/06/chesa-boudin-criminal-justice-reform/\">former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin\u003c/a>, who had \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdistrictattorney.org/policy/no-cash-bail/\">ended his office’s practice of asking for money bail\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And maybe that was a bad thing to do. But if you implement bail reform that doesn’t have the support of the staff, that is going to end up letting people out who inevitably are going to commit serious crimes. That’s the kind of thing that can delegitimize liberal approaches. Now bail reform is being attacked all over the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So that would be an example of, did they do an empirical investigation of what the effect of bail would be? In other words, you can do bill reform scientifically, or you can do it politically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is that what you meant when you wrote, “The failure of past reforms aimed at decarceration stand as a sobering reminder that good intentions do not easily translate into good results”?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, one would probably be when we decided to pretty much empty and close down most mental institutions, the hospitals for the mentally ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We dumped a lot of people onto the street, and didn’t have services for them. And so it was a good thing that people weren’t in mental hospitals, right? But we didn’t create a system to care for those people in the community, so a lot of those people ended up on the street, homeless, in the jail system, in the criminal justice system. And we still haven’t completely dealt with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s one of the sources of homelessness. It’s not the only one, but that would be the biggest example of when we essentially deinstitutionalized a whole bunch of people and then didn’t have any programs to deal with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The point is, even today, I mean we do have more [post-prison] reentry programs, but a lot of people we let out of prison, they have mental problems, they don’t have medicine, they don’t have a place to live, they don’t have a job. And it makes no sense to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It seems, in California, that there’s an attitude that nothing works, and nothing will work, to reduce the prison population and improve rehabilitative outcomes. You’ve written about that sentiment in corrections, which you describe as \u003ca href=\"https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/670395?mobileUi=0\">a period of pessimism\u003c/a>. Is there a feeling of helplessness when you study this issue?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Cullen sighs.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corrections is sort of like trying to fight cancer. You gotta chip away at it, look for the small benefits. But over 20 years, it can make a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s almost like no one whose responsibility it is to change what’s happening is doing anything about it. If no one takes responsibility, then it won’t change. There needs to be almost a social movement, a demand that we do prisons better. Any other business that was run like the prisons would be out of business. They’d be bankrupt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We do not hold the wardens responsible for the recidivism rates of the people in their prisons. Think about this, OK: If you look at people who are released from prison, which would include both the people who are in for the first time and people in for the second, third, fourth time, you get 50% to 60% recidivism rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re spending that much money and you’re having a failure rate of 60%, what does that cost us? Not just the money, but people injured and dying or property damaged? I mean, that degree of failure shouldn’t be acceptable. Think about a hospital where 60% of the people die or get worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s disappointing is that something as small as a Norway experiment can’t even be funded. It’s just gonna lead to a lot of misery inside institutions and a lot of high recidivism rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s like, you’re California! You should want a return to greatness. You should be the best in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The state's prisons are no longer a world rehabilitation model, but Stockholm Prize winner Francis Cullen says the system could return to greatness.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1670278289,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":36,"wordCount":1833},"headData":{"title":"A Top Prison Expert on the California 'Disaster' and How to Salvage It | KQED","description":"The state's prisons are no longer a world rehabilitation model, but Stockholm Prize winner Francis Cullen says the system could return to greatness.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"CalMatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","nprByline":"Nigel Duara\u003cbr>CalMatters","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11934072/a-top-prison-expert-on-the-california-disaster-and-how-to-salvage-it","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>At the end of a year in which Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed several bills that would have fundamentally changed how California prisons operate, CalMatters conducted a Q&A with the 2022 recipient of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.su.se/english/about-the-university/prizes-and-academic-ceremonies/the-stockholm-prize-in-criminology/2021-and-2022-winners-of-the-stockholm-prize-in-criminology-1.599679\">Stockholm Prize in Criminology\u003c/a>, which Stanford University’s Institute of International Studies calls “\u003ca href=\"https://fsi.stanford.edu/news/beatriz-magaloni-awarded-stockholm-prize-criminology\">equivalent to the Nobel in criminology\u003c/a>.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>That recipient, Francis Cullen, is a former president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and his research has been cited \u003ca href=\"https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zpxZFNUAAAAJ&hl=en\">tens of thousands of times\u003c/a>. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has brought him in to address its administrators, particularly concerning community corrections programs.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cullen discussed how California went from being an international model for rehabilitation to being a cautionary tale. Among his thoughts: This state needs to learn the difference between liberal and stupid.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been condensed for clarity and length.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CALMATTERS: The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in its most recent update to a federal court mandate that it reduce its prison population, reported that its facilities were filled to 112% of their capacity. Even that is a big improvement over the drastic overcrowding that prompted the order. Can you help put in context how California got into this situation?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We spend money on punishment, building prisons and locking people away for a long time. So why can't we spend money on things that are humane and effective?'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Francis Cullen, former president, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>FRANCIS CULLEN:\u003c/strong> It used to be the model of prisons in the country. Even when Ronald Reagan was the governor of California, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/04/09/large-scale-releases/\">cut the prison population\u003c/a> from about 26,000 to 18,000. They used to have a big treatment orientation, they hired social workers, and basically it was at the forefront of a rehabilitative model of incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then in the ‘60s and into the ‘70s, there was an attack on rehabilitation, for a whole bunch of reasons. But the biggest reason is, if you have a rehabilitation model, then you give a lot of discretion to judges and parole boards. In 1976, California … went to determinate sentencing, and basically gave up rehabilitation as a part of their mission. And you gotta understand, liberals went along with that, because they didn’t like parole. They felt the parole boards were keeping in people that were politically active and weren’t letting them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2006/jun/15/california-legislature-reorganizes-doc-to-add-rehabilitation/\">“Rehabilitation” would be added to the prison system’s name in 2006.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California became punitive with its politics. The things that were done, not just in California, but generally, were all justified on the notion that we want inmates to suffer. The more they suffer, the less likely they will be to reoffend, which actually isn’t true. But that was the logic. And the result, I think, was a disaster. When you get rid of rehabilitation, you take the conscience out of the system.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11926841,news_11924214,news_11918025","label":"Related Posts "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In California this year, we had what has been called \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/criminal-justice/2022/06/prison-rehabilitation-norway-model/\">the “Norway Prison Bill,”\u003c/a> which would have created a pilot program in prisons, with campuses that resemble the prisons in Norway — prisoners who were chosen could cook their own meals and live in communal spaces while getting job training. Newsom vetoed it along with two other measures related to prisons. His veto message wasn’t that these won’t work — it was that we cannot afford to spend the money right now. How do you respond to that assertion?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was stupid to veto that legislation for this reason: The Norway model works. Now, would it work here in the United States, where you have issues of race and other conflict in prison? We have a different population here, we have racial conflict, we have other issues. But having said that, why not do an experiment?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is, if you did a Norway unit in our prison, you could have studied it for its effectiveness. Can I say definitively that it would have worked here? No. Do I think it would have? Yes, because the principles make sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have had court cases showing that the medical treatment of inmates is insufficient and the conditions in prison are bad. The recidivism rate is high, and there’s a lot of [probation] revocations. It seems to me that arguing that we shouldn’t spend money is a pretty weak rationale. We spend money on punishment, building prisons and locking people away for a long time. So why can’t we spend money on things that are humane and effective?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other problem with this is, if you don’t invest in people and they come out and they commit crimes, do people understand the cost of that? There was one study that looked at the cost of, if somebody is a juvenile and becomes a serious offender for a number of years, it’s like $1.3 million dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not wanting to spend money, when spending money is the only way you invest in people and make them less criminal — it saves money later on. How much is that worth to you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California had a major prison realignment in 2011. Now, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/09/california-solitary-confinement-bill/\">the sheriffs who run county jails\u003c/a> say that realignment simply shifted prison populations — and prison politics and prison gangs — into jails. You’ve written, specific to realignment, that “\u003ca href=\"https://law.stanford.edu/publications/liberal-but-not-stupid-meeting-the-promise-of-downsizing-prisons/\">successful downsizing must be liberal but not stupid\u003c/a>.” What’s a liberal idea here, and what in your view is a stupid one?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we’re basically saying by \"liberal\" is concern for social justice, not focusing on punishment — an attempt to see that crime is rooted in diverse factors, whether it’s poverty or mental health concerns, rather than saying that crime is just simply a choice, that we need to get tough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not stupid\" meant that whatever we do in the system should be evidence-based, based on the best science, so the interventions we use should be based on what criminology has shown works to change people’s behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question is, when liberals make suggestions about what to do, are they making it based on ideology? Are they making it based on science? Are they looking at the research? Recommending programs that are not rooted in solid science can end up being stupid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s take bail reform. Now, I’m not against bail reform. There’s some evidence that it works, right? But some bail laws don’t pay enough attention to the risk that people pose. You’ve had problems in San Francisco, where they recalled the prosecutor (\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/06/chesa-boudin-criminal-justice-reform/\">former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin\u003c/a>, who had \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdistrictattorney.org/policy/no-cash-bail/\">ended his office’s practice of asking for money bail\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And maybe that was a bad thing to do. But if you implement bail reform that doesn’t have the support of the staff, that is going to end up letting people out who inevitably are going to commit serious crimes. That’s the kind of thing that can delegitimize liberal approaches. Now bail reform is being attacked all over the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So that would be an example of, did they do an empirical investigation of what the effect of bail would be? In other words, you can do bill reform scientifically, or you can do it politically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is that what you meant when you wrote, “The failure of past reforms aimed at decarceration stand as a sobering reminder that good intentions do not easily translate into good results”?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, one would probably be when we decided to pretty much empty and close down most mental institutions, the hospitals for the mentally ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We dumped a lot of people onto the street, and didn’t have services for them. And so it was a good thing that people weren’t in mental hospitals, right? But we didn’t create a system to care for those people in the community, so a lot of those people ended up on the street, homeless, in the jail system, in the criminal justice system. And we still haven’t completely dealt with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s one of the sources of homelessness. It’s not the only one, but that would be the biggest example of when we essentially deinstitutionalized a whole bunch of people and then didn’t have any programs to deal with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The point is, even today, I mean we do have more [post-prison] reentry programs, but a lot of people we let out of prison, they have mental problems, they don’t have medicine, they don’t have a place to live, they don’t have a job. And it makes no sense to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It seems, in California, that there’s an attitude that nothing works, and nothing will work, to reduce the prison population and improve rehabilitative outcomes. You’ve written about that sentiment in corrections, which you describe as \u003ca href=\"https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/670395?mobileUi=0\">a period of pessimism\u003c/a>. Is there a feeling of helplessness when you study this issue?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Cullen sighs.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corrections is sort of like trying to fight cancer. You gotta chip away at it, look for the small benefits. But over 20 years, it can make a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s almost like no one whose responsibility it is to change what’s happening is doing anything about it. If no one takes responsibility, then it won’t change. There needs to be almost a social movement, a demand that we do prisons better. Any other business that was run like the prisons would be out of business. They’d be bankrupt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We do not hold the wardens responsible for the recidivism rates of the people in their prisons. Think about this, OK: If you look at people who are released from prison, which would include both the people who are in for the first time and people in for the second, third, fourth time, you get 50% to 60% recidivism rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re spending that much money and you’re having a failure rate of 60%, what does that cost us? Not just the money, but people injured and dying or property damaged? I mean, that degree of failure shouldn’t be acceptable. Think about a hospital where 60% of the people die or get worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s disappointing is that something as small as a Norway experiment can’t even be funded. It’s just gonna lead to a lot of misery inside institutions and a lot of high recidivism rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s like, you’re California! You should want a return to greatness. You should be the best in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11934072/a-top-prison-expert-on-the-california-disaster-and-how-to-salvage-it","authors":["byline_news_11934072"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_32092","news_3930","news_765","news_23534"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11934074","label":"source_news_11934072"},"news_11824855":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11824855","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11824855","score":null,"sort":[1592463932000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"report-ballot-measure-would-put-thousands-behind-bars-harm-communities-of-color","title":"Report: Ballot Measure Would Put Thousands Behind Bars, Harm Communities of Color","publishDate":1592463932,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>A November ballot measure that would roll back a number of recent criminal justice reforms would disproportionally harm communities of color, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.cjcj.org/news/12895\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a report\u003c/a> being released today by a nonprofit advocating for less incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cjcj.org/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, or CJCJ, \u003c/a>found that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/17-0044%20%28Reducing%20Crime%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposed initiative\u003c/a> would drive up prison and jail populations, increase public spending on law enforcement and incarceration by hundreds of millions of dollars a year, in addition to diverting resources from programs that rehabilitate former offenders, and generally hurt communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of the measure rejected those contentions, saying it was narrowly written to only impact a small group of violent offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Maureen Washburn, a policy analyst at CJCJ, noted that crime has continued to fall in California as reforms took place over the past decade — and any reversal of those changes would disproportionately impact communities of color in California, who are incarcerated at higher rates than whites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the moment we're in, I think this initiative is especially dissonant,\" said Washburn, who co-authored the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that's particularly true at a time of national protests over police brutality and racism — and as the state, cities and counties all face massive budget shortfalls because of the economic harm caused by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we're considering ... a proposal that would increase penalties for low-level offenses, in a system that's already profoundly biased against Black, indigenous and Latino Californians, I think it's clear that it would only extend the harm of our criminal justice system,\" Washburn said, trapping \"more and more Californians in that really difficult-to-escape cycle of entering and exiting jails and courts and probation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ballot measure, backed by some law enforcement officials and victims rights groups, aims to pare down some of the sweeping criminal justice reforms enacted in California over the past decade. Broadly, it would make it easier to charge someone with felony theft and easier to send someone back to jail for violating their probation; and harder for many inmates to earn parole from state prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would do so by reversing aspects of three laws — two enacted by voters — aimed at both reducing the number of people in crowded prisons and jails and the amount of money the state spends locking people up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past five years, one of those measures — \u003ca href=\"https://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2014/general/en/pdf/proposition-47-title-summary-analysis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proposition 47\u003c/a> — has allowed $350 million to be\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11796149/voter-approved-criminal-justice-reform-expected-to-save-state-over-122-million\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> redirected\u003c/a> from prisons to victims services, schools and treatment programs. Prop. 47 reduced many nonviolent and drug-related crimes from felonies to misdemeanors, and allowed people previously convicted of those offenses to petition a court to have them reduced to misdemeanors. It took the savings achieved from lower prison and jail populations and redirected them toward community programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the November initiative would reverse portions of Prop. 47, making it easier to charge someone with felony theft. The report estimates that change alone could result in an additional 4,900 to 9,900 felony arrests per year — costing taxpayers an additional $154 million to $457 million a year in court, probation, jail and prison costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So the big takeaway for us on the fiscal side, at least, is that this is going to be hugely expensive,\" Washburn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she added, \"I think that the far greater costs of an initiative like this are going to be borne by communities and families and people that are swept up in a more punitive system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ballot measure also seeks to roll back some aspects of \u003ca href=\"https://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2016/general/en/pdf/text-proposed-laws.pdf#prop57\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proposition 57\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11114572/jerry-brown-pushes-earlier-release-of-felons-under-proposition-57\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016 ballot measure written by former Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/a>; and Assembly Bill 109, which lawmakers approved in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 57 gave some state prisoners the opportunity to shorten their sentences by participating in rehabilitation programs. State officials say by next year, it will have resulted in some 8,600 inmates serving shorter prison sentences, and is saving taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/partners/documents/chronicle_prison_reform_article_10-2-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AB 109, also known as realignment\u003c/a>, requires people convicted of nonviolent, nonserious, nonsexual crimes to serve their sentences in local jails instead of state prisons. It\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11108031/five-years-later-many-see-criminal-justice-realignment-as-success\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> helped reduce the state's prison population by tens of thousands of inmates\u003c/a>, and was intended to address a U.S. Supreme Court order to reduce the population in California's overcrowded prisons. The courts found that the overcrowding was resulting in inadequate medical care and violating inmates' constitutional rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the CJCJ report states that many of the gains made by Propositions 47 and 57, and AB 109, would be reversed if the proposed ballot measure is approved by voters. In the first five years, it could drive up state costs by $2.3 billion, money that could otherwise be spent on \"programs that address the root causes of crime,\" the report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also states it would drive up prison and jail populations, potentially putting California in violation of the Supreme Court order, leading to more lawsuits and forcing county sheriffs to release some inmates early.[aside tag=\"politics\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More generally, the report finds, the initiative would pull more people into the criminal justice system — and by prioritizing punishment over treatment, \"could result in more people trapped in a pattern of low-level crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assemblyman Jim Cooper, a former police officer who helped write the measure, said he does not believe it will lead to a drastic increase in jail or prison populations. He said it was carefully crafted to target violent offenders ineligible for earlier reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While it will increase some costs, the universe is not that big, and it keeps bad people in jail. So if you're pimping a kid or raping a woman, you are a bad person and you should do your time. That’s all I’m saying,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper said he doesn't believe the reforms have saved as much money — or benefited communities — as much as the other side contends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Washburn said any reduction in spending on rehabilitation and other programs that help people turn their lives around, could actually make California communities less safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crime rates, she notes, have continued to fall over the past decade, as these reforms were implemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that there's a real argument to be made that this initiative — in addition to increasing costs in the criminal justice system — would really siphon funds that are necessary for community-based programs, for prevention, for treatment, for the things that keep people out of the system in the first place,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This initiative, rather than increasing community safety, actually puts communities at risk of potential increases in crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'This initiative ... actually puts communities at risk of potential increases in crime,' said policy analyst Maureen Washburn on a ballot measure that would disproportionally harm communities of color, according to a new report.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1592516932,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":1126},"headData":{"title":"Report: Ballot Measure Would Put Thousands Behind Bars, Harm Communities of Color | KQED","description":"'This initiative ... actually puts communities at risk of potential increases in crime,' said policy analyst Maureen Washburn on a ballot measure that would disproportionally harm communities of color, according to a new report.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11824855 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11824855","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/06/18/report-ballot-measure-would-put-thousands-behind-bars-harm-communities-of-color/","disqusTitle":"Report: Ballot Measure Would Put Thousands Behind Bars, Harm Communities of Color","source":"News","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/perspectives/2020/06/LagosCriminalJustice.mp3","path":"/news/11824855/report-ballot-measure-would-put-thousands-behind-bars-harm-communities-of-color","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A November ballot measure that would roll back a number of recent criminal justice reforms would disproportionally harm communities of color, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.cjcj.org/news/12895\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a report\u003c/a> being released today by a nonprofit advocating for less incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cjcj.org/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, or CJCJ, \u003c/a>found that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/17-0044%20%28Reducing%20Crime%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposed initiative\u003c/a> would drive up prison and jail populations, increase public spending on law enforcement and incarceration by hundreds of millions of dollars a year, in addition to diverting resources from programs that rehabilitate former offenders, and generally hurt communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of the measure rejected those contentions, saying it was narrowly written to only impact a small group of violent offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Maureen Washburn, a policy analyst at CJCJ, noted that crime has continued to fall in California as reforms took place over the past decade — and any reversal of those changes would disproportionately impact communities of color in California, who are incarcerated at higher rates than whites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the moment we're in, I think this initiative is especially dissonant,\" said Washburn, who co-authored the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that's particularly true at a time of national protests over police brutality and racism — and as the state, cities and counties all face massive budget shortfalls because of the economic harm caused by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we're considering ... a proposal that would increase penalties for low-level offenses, in a system that's already profoundly biased against Black, indigenous and Latino Californians, I think it's clear that it would only extend the harm of our criminal justice system,\" Washburn said, trapping \"more and more Californians in that really difficult-to-escape cycle of entering and exiting jails and courts and probation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ballot measure, backed by some law enforcement officials and victims rights groups, aims to pare down some of the sweeping criminal justice reforms enacted in California over the past decade. Broadly, it would make it easier to charge someone with felony theft and easier to send someone back to jail for violating their probation; and harder for many inmates to earn parole from state prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would do so by reversing aspects of three laws — two enacted by voters — aimed at both reducing the number of people in crowded prisons and jails and the amount of money the state spends locking people up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past five years, one of those measures — \u003ca href=\"https://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2014/general/en/pdf/proposition-47-title-summary-analysis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proposition 47\u003c/a> — has allowed $350 million to be\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11796149/voter-approved-criminal-justice-reform-expected-to-save-state-over-122-million\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> redirected\u003c/a> from prisons to victims services, schools and treatment programs. Prop. 47 reduced many nonviolent and drug-related crimes from felonies to misdemeanors, and allowed people previously convicted of those offenses to petition a court to have them reduced to misdemeanors. It took the savings achieved from lower prison and jail populations and redirected them toward community programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the November initiative would reverse portions of Prop. 47, making it easier to charge someone with felony theft. The report estimates that change alone could result in an additional 4,900 to 9,900 felony arrests per year — costing taxpayers an additional $154 million to $457 million a year in court, probation, jail and prison costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So the big takeaway for us on the fiscal side, at least, is that this is going to be hugely expensive,\" Washburn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she added, \"I think that the far greater costs of an initiative like this are going to be borne by communities and families and people that are swept up in a more punitive system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ballot measure also seeks to roll back some aspects of \u003ca href=\"https://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2016/general/en/pdf/text-proposed-laws.pdf#prop57\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proposition 57\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11114572/jerry-brown-pushes-earlier-release-of-felons-under-proposition-57\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016 ballot measure written by former Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/a>; and Assembly Bill 109, which lawmakers approved in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 57 gave some state prisoners the opportunity to shorten their sentences by participating in rehabilitation programs. State officials say by next year, it will have resulted in some 8,600 inmates serving shorter prison sentences, and is saving taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/partners/documents/chronicle_prison_reform_article_10-2-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AB 109, also known as realignment\u003c/a>, requires people convicted of nonviolent, nonserious, nonsexual crimes to serve their sentences in local jails instead of state prisons. It\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11108031/five-years-later-many-see-criminal-justice-realignment-as-success\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> helped reduce the state's prison population by tens of thousands of inmates\u003c/a>, and was intended to address a U.S. Supreme Court order to reduce the population in California's overcrowded prisons. The courts found that the overcrowding was resulting in inadequate medical care and violating inmates' constitutional rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the CJCJ report states that many of the gains made by Propositions 47 and 57, and AB 109, would be reversed if the proposed ballot measure is approved by voters. In the first five years, it could drive up state costs by $2.3 billion, money that could otherwise be spent on \"programs that address the root causes of crime,\" the report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also states it would drive up prison and jail populations, potentially putting California in violation of the Supreme Court order, leading to more lawsuits and forcing county sheriffs to release some inmates early.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"politics","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More generally, the report finds, the initiative would pull more people into the criminal justice system — and by prioritizing punishment over treatment, \"could result in more people trapped in a pattern of low-level crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assemblyman Jim Cooper, a former police officer who helped write the measure, said he does not believe it will lead to a drastic increase in jail or prison populations. He said it was carefully crafted to target violent offenders ineligible for earlier reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While it will increase some costs, the universe is not that big, and it keeps bad people in jail. So if you're pimping a kid or raping a woman, you are a bad person and you should do your time. That’s all I’m saying,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooper said he doesn't believe the reforms have saved as much money — or benefited communities — as much as the other side contends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Washburn said any reduction in spending on rehabilitation and other programs that help people turn their lives around, could actually make California communities less safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crime rates, she notes, have continued to fall over the past decade, as these reforms were implemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that there's a real argument to be made that this initiative — in addition to increasing costs in the criminal justice system — would really siphon funds that are necessary for community-based programs, for prevention, for treatment, for the things that keep people out of the system in the first place,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This initiative, rather than increasing community safety, actually puts communities at risk of potential increases in crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11824855/report-ballot-measure-would-put-thousands-behind-bars-harm-communities-of-color","authors":["3239"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_5294","news_2839","news_22276","news_17968","news_18502","news_18418","news_765"],"featImg":"news_11825065","label":"source_news_11824855"},"news_11821589":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11821589","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11821589","score":null,"sort":[1590794346000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-considers-downsizing-state-prison-system-amid-coronavirus-budget-woes","title":"California Considers Downsizing State Prison System Amid Coronavirus Budget Woes","publishDate":1590794346,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Between 1984 and 2005, California built 21 new state prisons — and filled them. The state prison population ballooned from roughly 50,000 to about 173,000 over that time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California opened a new prison as recently as 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, with a projected $54 billion deficit caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state leaders are looking to sharply reverse course and downsize the state’s hulking prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\">May budget revision\u003c/a>, Newsom proposed closing two prisons — quickly — over the next two years, a move that would save the state an estimated $400 million per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I made a commitment when I ran for office,” Newsom said during a budget press conference on May 14. “That's my intention, to shut down a state prison to continue to invest more and more in education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom hasn’t said yet which prisons would be closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other changes embedded in the governor’s plan that would shorten the amount of time some prisoners spend behind bars by allowing inmates to access rehabilitation programs more quickly and earn more time off their sentences for good behavior. The Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/crimjust/2020/Public-Safety-May-Revision-Overview-052120.pdf\"> predicts\u003c/a> the state could reduce the inmate population by nearly 11,000 by 2024, and calculates that more than two prisons can be closed without causing overcrowding elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for criminal justice reform were quick to applaud the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s long overdue. This is a state that has needed to reduce corrections costs for many decades,” said Lenore Anderson, founder and president of Californians for Safety and Justice, which advocates for reducing incarceration. “The best way to do that is to reduce the number of people incarcerated and close prisons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"California Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]\"That's my intention, to shut down a state prison to continue to invest more and more in education.\"[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Discussions about closing prisons have bubbled up before, but the coronavirus pandemic has lent new urgency to the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11808622/gov-newsom-halts-prison-transfers-of-new-inmates-citing-coronavirus-threat\">suspended intake of new prisoners\u003c/a> in late March and began releasing certain prisoners early in response to alarm about the spread of COVID-19 in prison, where social distancing is nearly impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\">1,000 state prison inmates \u003c/a>have tested positive for COVID-19 — most of them clustered in a handful of prisons, with nearly half at a single prison — the California Institution for Men in San Bernardino County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there's anything this pandemic has brought to light, it's that the criminal justice system in its current form spreads poor health — beyond being ineffective financially,” Anderson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since early April, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/news/2020/03/31/cdcr-announces-plan-to-further-protect-staff-and-inmates-from-the-spread-of-covid-19-in-state-prisons/\">CDCR has expedited the release of prisoners\u003c/a> who are within 60 days of their scheduled release date and who are not doing time for violent crimes or sex offenses. Those measures alone have reduced the prison population by about 6,000 people — bringing the tally to 116,337 as of May 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These reductions build on a roughly decade-long effort to reduce California’s prison population under pressure from lawsuits, court orders and a Supreme Court ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB109\">Assembly Bill 109\u003c/a> transferred responsibility for many lower-level criminals from the state to counties, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/prop47.htm\">Proposition 47\u003c/a>, the 2014 voter initiative, reduced sentences for many property and drug offenses. These reforms have allowed the state to steadily draw down the number of people behind bars, and the governor’s current proposal assumes a “projected continued decline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although it's a tragic thing to cite as the cause, if the virus causes the state to experiment with fewer people in prison and possibly eliminating some of the most obsolete prisons, then the court is going to look very kindly on that,” said Stanford law professor Robert Weisberg, who studies the criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As prison populations decrease, closing prisons makes fiscal sense, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It becomes almost like a kind of conventional business decision. It's almost like closing franchises,” Weisberg said. “You're reducing overhead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the heftiest parts of that overhead is staffing costs — pay and benefits for the correctional officers, administrators and program staff who run these institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On the whole, state prisons are in rural or small town areas where they are the heart of, or one of the key parts, of the economy of those places, Weisberg said. “Obviously, if you close prisons, you're weakening the economy in those places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom acknowledged that challenge during his budget briefing. “It becomes very difficult, if you do make that determination and make it public, to recruit, retain personnel,” he said. “It could create all kinds of problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Robert Weisberg, Stanford University law professor\"]\"It becomes almost like a kind of conventional business decision. It's almost like closing franchises.\"[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Correctional Peace Officers Association, which represents correctional officers across the state, did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the state prison system continues to shrink, more responsibility will fall to the counties where sentences for lower-level crimes are served out in county jails or under probation supervision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as a person is maintaining a crime-free lifestyle and not putting the community at risk, we know we can be successful with them in the community,” said Brian Richart, president of Chief Probation Officers of California. “So why not keep them in the community where it's less expensive to us as taxpayers to treat somebody?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richart, however, is concerned that the state’s budget woes would lead to reductions in rehabilitative programs and services and cuts in training for probation officers that he says are necessary to keeping criminals off the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Probation has proven itself to be a successful alternative when we're resourced properly,” Richart said. “If we've got the right number of staff and the right type of staff providing the right type of interventions and clinical services and supports focusing on health and wellness for our clients, we show reductions in recidivism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s revised budget continues previous plans to phase out private and public contract prisons and also proposes closing the state’s three youth prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"cdcr\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers, concerned the governor's proposal is rushed and short on key details, are now calling for more information on what criteria will be used to determine which adult prisons will be closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The LAO recommends CDCR rank prisons for closure based on criteria such as cost per bed and suggests no prison infrastructure projects be approved until the state has decided which prisons will be closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers have until June 15 to pass a balanced budget — and decide whether to set in motion major changes to California's prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have yet to know what the standards would be if we were to actually talk about closing a prison,” Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, said at a budget hearing in the state Legislature earlier this week. “We want to make sure that what we're doing is correct ... not just financially, but programmatically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As the state struggles to close a $54 billion budget gap, prisons have landed on the chopping block. While Gov. Gavin Newsom's current proposal targets two prisons, it's possible ongoing reforms could allow closing more than that.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1590802555,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":37,"wordCount":1247},"headData":{"title":"California Considers Downsizing State Prison System Amid Coronavirus Budget Woes | KQED","description":"As the state struggles to close a $54 billion budget gap, prisons have landed on the chopping block. While Gov. 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The state prison population ballooned from roughly 50,000 to about 173,000 over that time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California opened a new prison as recently as 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, with a projected $54 billion deficit caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state leaders are looking to sharply reverse course and downsize the state’s hulking prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\">May budget revision\u003c/a>, Newsom proposed closing two prisons — quickly — over the next two years, a move that would save the state an estimated $400 million per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I made a commitment when I ran for office,” Newsom said during a budget press conference on May 14. “That's my intention, to shut down a state prison to continue to invest more and more in education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom hasn’t said yet which prisons would be closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other changes embedded in the governor’s plan that would shorten the amount of time some prisoners spend behind bars by allowing inmates to access rehabilitation programs more quickly and earn more time off their sentences for good behavior. The Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/crimjust/2020/Public-Safety-May-Revision-Overview-052120.pdf\"> predicts\u003c/a> the state could reduce the inmate population by nearly 11,000 by 2024, and calculates that more than two prisons can be closed without causing overcrowding elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for criminal justice reform were quick to applaud the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s long overdue. This is a state that has needed to reduce corrections costs for many decades,” said Lenore Anderson, founder and president of Californians for Safety and Justice, which advocates for reducing incarceration. “The best way to do that is to reduce the number of people incarcerated and close prisons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"\"That's my intention, to shut down a state prison to continue to invest more and more in education.\"","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"California Gov. Gavin Newsom","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Discussions about closing prisons have bubbled up before, but the coronavirus pandemic has lent new urgency to the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11808622/gov-newsom-halts-prison-transfers-of-new-inmates-citing-coronavirus-threat\">suspended intake of new prisoners\u003c/a> in late March and began releasing certain prisoners early in response to alarm about the spread of COVID-19 in prison, where social distancing is nearly impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\">1,000 state prison inmates \u003c/a>have tested positive for COVID-19 — most of them clustered in a handful of prisons, with nearly half at a single prison — the California Institution for Men in San Bernardino County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there's anything this pandemic has brought to light, it's that the criminal justice system in its current form spreads poor health — beyond being ineffective financially,” Anderson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since early April, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/news/2020/03/31/cdcr-announces-plan-to-further-protect-staff-and-inmates-from-the-spread-of-covid-19-in-state-prisons/\">CDCR has expedited the release of prisoners\u003c/a> who are within 60 days of their scheduled release date and who are not doing time for violent crimes or sex offenses. Those measures alone have reduced the prison population by about 6,000 people — bringing the tally to 116,337 as of May 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These reductions build on a roughly decade-long effort to reduce California’s prison population under pressure from lawsuits, court orders and a Supreme Court ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB109\">Assembly Bill 109\u003c/a> transferred responsibility for many lower-level criminals from the state to counties, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/prop47.htm\">Proposition 47\u003c/a>, the 2014 voter initiative, reduced sentences for many property and drug offenses. These reforms have allowed the state to steadily draw down the number of people behind bars, and the governor’s current proposal assumes a “projected continued decline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although it's a tragic thing to cite as the cause, if the virus causes the state to experiment with fewer people in prison and possibly eliminating some of the most obsolete prisons, then the court is going to look very kindly on that,” said Stanford law professor Robert Weisberg, who studies the criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As prison populations decrease, closing prisons makes fiscal sense, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It becomes almost like a kind of conventional business decision. It's almost like closing franchises,” Weisberg said. “You're reducing overhead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the heftiest parts of that overhead is staffing costs — pay and benefits for the correctional officers, administrators and program staff who run these institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On the whole, state prisons are in rural or small town areas where they are the heart of, or one of the key parts, of the economy of those places, Weisberg said. “Obviously, if you close prisons, you're weakening the economy in those places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom acknowledged that challenge during his budget briefing. “It becomes very difficult, if you do make that determination and make it public, to recruit, retain personnel,” he said. “It could create all kinds of problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"\"It becomes almost like a kind of conventional business decision. It's almost like closing franchises.\"","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Robert Weisberg, Stanford University law professor","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Correctional Peace Officers Association, which represents correctional officers across the state, did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the state prison system continues to shrink, more responsibility will fall to the counties where sentences for lower-level crimes are served out in county jails or under probation supervision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as a person is maintaining a crime-free lifestyle and not putting the community at risk, we know we can be successful with them in the community,” said Brian Richart, president of Chief Probation Officers of California. “So why not keep them in the community where it's less expensive to us as taxpayers to treat somebody?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richart, however, is concerned that the state’s budget woes would lead to reductions in rehabilitative programs and services and cuts in training for probation officers that he says are necessary to keeping criminals off the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Probation has proven itself to be a successful alternative when we're resourced properly,” Richart said. “If we've got the right number of staff and the right type of staff providing the right type of interventions and clinical services and supports focusing on health and wellness for our clients, we show reductions in recidivism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s revised budget continues previous plans to phase out private and public contract prisons and also proposes closing the state’s three youth prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"cdcr","label":"related coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers, concerned the governor's proposal is rushed and short on key details, are now calling for more information on what criteria will be used to determine which adult prisons will be closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The LAO recommends CDCR rank prisons for closure based on criteria such as cost per bed and suggests no prison infrastructure projects be approved until the state has decided which prisons will be closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers have until June 15 to pass a balanced budget — and decide whether to set in motion major changes to California's prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have yet to know what the standards would be if we were to actually talk about closing a prison,” Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, said at a budget hearing in the state Legislature earlier this week. “We want to make sure that what we're doing is correct ... not just financially, but programmatically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11821589/california-considers-downsizing-state-prison-system-amid-coronavirus-budget-woes","authors":["244"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_1628","news_616","news_1629","news_27350","news_27504","news_1471","news_28029","news_765"],"featImg":"news_11821672","label":"source_news_11821589"},"news_11714104":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11714104","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11714104","score":null,"sort":[1546095635000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"jerry-brown-will-leave-lasting-impact-on-criminal-justice-in-california","title":"Jerry Brown Will Leave Lasting Impact on Criminal Justice in California","publishDate":1546095635,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>During his first stint as California governor 40 years ago, Jerry Brown appointed a slew of diverse — sometimes controversial — judges and signed a sentencing law that fundamentally changed how the state approached punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, things weren’t so different during Brown’s second go-around in the governor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/guvtransition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brown Out, Newsom In\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/guvtransition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2018/12/20/JerryBrownMain.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the Jerry Brown era winds down and California prepares for the governorship of Gavin Newsom, KQED is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/guvtransition\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">looking back\u003c/a> at Gov. Brown’s legacy and ahead to the challenges and opportunities facing Gov.-elect Newsom.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Over the past eight years, Brown oversaw a dramatic shift in how California approaches criminal justice, including authoring a law that upended how the state treats nonviolent offenders and writing a ballot measure that rolled back the \"lock 'em up\" sentencing philosophy he championed in 1976. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time around, the governor appointed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714131/browns-longest-lasting-legacy-judges\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more than 600 judges\u003c/a>, including four to the state’s high court who represent not just more women and people of color, but also a much broader set of career experiences and philosophical backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he’s gone much further than he did in the 1970s and 1980s: Over his final two terms, Brown issued 1,189 pardons and 152 commutations — dwarfing any of his predecessors and his own previous record, when he issued 404 pardons and just one commutation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also vetoed dozens of bills that would have created new crimes and signed numerous sentencing reforms that give offenders chances at shorter sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brown's Evolution on Criminal Justice\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, Brown’s evolution tracks with that of California voters, who have embraced even further-reaching criminal justice reforms than the governor initially wanted. Both Brown and the electorate were encouraged down that path by a landmark legal case that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court ordering the state to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2011/05/23/136579580/california-is-ordered-to-cut-its-prison-population\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reduce its prison population\u003c/a> by tens of thousands of inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the state has about 34,000 fewer people in state prisons than it did when Brown was sworn into the governor's office in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gov. Brown has presided over a legacy of criminal justice reform that is really unmatched across the country,” said Stanford University’s Michael Romano, who runs the university’s Three Strikes Project and helped write two of the recent criminal justice ballot initiatives that Brown was not involved in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole United States prison population has come down over the past 10 years, and all of that reduction is a result of the reductions that we've seen in California. And at the same time, the crime rates in California from when these reforms started to kick in, in 2011, to today are down,” Romano said. “So we've been able to reduce our prison population, significantly reduce the amount of injustice in the system, and improve public safety. And Gov. Brown has presided over that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714131/browns-longest-lasting-legacy-judges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brown's Longest-Lasting Legacy: Judges\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714131/browns-longest-lasting-legacy-judges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS4469_106397071-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The governor's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714131/browns-longest-lasting-legacy-judges\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">judicial appointments\u003c/a> will leave a lasting imprint on the state, breaking the mold with candidates from diverse professional and personal backgrounds.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Romano credited Brown for his creative approach to the problem, saying the governor — the only person to ever lead California for four terms — understands the power of that office and what he called “the administrative state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that both of the sweeping laws that Brown authored — Assembly Bill 109, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11107949/realignment-5-years-on-counties-build-jails-for-inmates-with-mental-illness\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">known as realignment\u003c/a>, and Proposition 57, which made broad changes to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11114572/jerry-brown-pushes-earlier-release-of-felons-under-proposition-57\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">parole rules\u003c/a> — did not rely on simply reducing criminal sentences or throwing the doors of prisons and jails open indiscriminately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has not reduced a single sentence\" with the changes in law, Romano said, \"but he has shifted the responsibility and the incentives within the system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Proposition 57, which voters approved in 2016, that meant giving prison officials more flexibility to reward prisoners who have participated in rehabilitative programs with shorter sentences. Under AB 109, it meant redirecting most nonviolent offenders to county jails instead of state prisons to serve their sentences, giving counties more incentives to rehabilitate offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown pushed both measures not only because he came to believe that many of the “tough on crime” laws of the 1980s and 1990s were a mistake, but because he had to. In the first months of his second administration, the U.S. Supreme Court issued that order, telling California its overcrowded prisons were unconstitutional because inmates were being denied medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the changes championed by the governor haven't been without critics, Romano believes Brown’s approach was brilliant because it avoided the political pitfalls of releasing inmates early, and marshaled forces Brown had at his disposal within state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This type of administrative reform has proven in some ways to be more effective than any other type of criminal justice reform and mass incarceration reform that we typically talk about,” Romano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Too Much Change Too Quickly'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not everyone is on board. Law enforcement groups opposed most of the major sentencing reforms that have been adopted in recent years, and continue to blame those changes for the increase in property crimes that some communities have experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan Hill Police Chief David Swing is president of the California Police Chiefs Association. He said there’s been a “sea change” in how the state approaches criminal justice under Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714250/governor-jerry-brown-on-leaving-office-leftover-campaign-cash-lessons-from-his-mother-and-car-shopping\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LISTEN: Gov. Brown Exit Interview with 'Political Breakdown'\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714250/governor-jerry-brown-on-leaving-office-leftover-campaign-cash-lessons-from-his-mother-and-car-shopping\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/JB-Politcal-Breakdown-1180x886.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gov. Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714250/governor-jerry-brown-on-leaving-office-leftover-campaign-cash-lessons-from-his-mother-and-car-shopping\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sat down\u003c/a> with KQED politics reporter Marisa Lagos and editor Scott Shafer at the governor's mansion in Sacramento to talk about life after office, his plans for his unspent campaign cash, what Democrats need in 2020, challenges for Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom and the influence of his mother.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“And we would say that it's been too much change too quickly,” he said. “When you have that much change all at once, there isn't an opportunity to really evaluate the efficacy of those programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swing is right. The state has not made an effort to track the effects of many of the changes, instead relying on outside groups like universities and think tanks to draw their own conclusions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He believes the reforms have come at a cost but — in a sign of how far the conversation has come over the past decade — he also said police groups don’t want to return to the days of simply locking people up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that incarceration doesn't solve the problem. There has to be a program afterwards, even during custody, in order for someone to have the best chance of being successful,” he said, arguing that the state hasn’t done enough to invest in those types of programs amid the significant reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swing also said the state has gone too far, particularly with measures like the voter-approved Proposition 47, which Brown did not support when it was on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10652368/proposition-47-gives-former-felons-a-new-chance\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 47\u003c/a> helped reduce the prison population by reducing most drug possession charges from felonies to misdemeanors — meaning those inmates would serve their time in local jails, not state prisons — and made petty theft of items up to $950 a misdemeanor as well. It also allowed people to retroactively petition courts to change their sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Changing Relationship With Law Enforcement\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former state Sen. Mark Leno said the history behind Proposition 47 shows how law enforcement, long a powerful lobbying force in Sacramento, overreached at times during Brown’s tenure. And how the governor became increasingly more willing to push back against police and prosecutors over his two terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leno said prior to voters weighing in on Proposition 47 in 2014, he authored a measure that didn’t go quite as far as the initiative, but would have let prosecutors decide whether to charge someone with a felony or misdemeanor in many drug and petty theft cases. But law enforcement groups — particularly prosecutors — lobbied the governor to veto the bill, and he did.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689707/in-shift-california-lawmakers-embrace-some-ambitious-criminal-justice-reforms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In Shift, California Lawmakers Embrace Some Ambitious Criminal Justice Reforms\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689707/in-shift-california-lawmakers-embrace-some-ambitious-criminal-justice-reforms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS26392_IMG_1968-qut-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The last legislative session under Gov. Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689707/in-shift-california-lawmakers-embrace-some-ambitious-criminal-justice-reforms\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bucked law enforcement\u003c/a> to pass laws ending cash bail, reforming the felony murder rule and opening up police records, among others.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When he was elected in 2010, Leno noted, Brown was attorney general and had the support of all the state’s major law enforcement groups. But by the last few years of his governorship, Brown was pushing ballot measures, like Proposition 57, against the wishes of district attorneys and signing police oversight bills over the cries of police associations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once he became governor he probably had a clearer view of how serious the prison crisis was and that he was under court order to do something about it,” Leno said. “He in some ways almost reverted more back to his Jesuit roots of fairness and making sure people have second chances in life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That meant signing bills that reduced criminal sentences, Leno said, but also vetoing those that would have led to more people being incarcerated. It included signing a landmark bail reform bill last year that, if upheld by the voters in 2020, will eliminate the requirement that suspects \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689184/gov-brown-signs-bill-ending-cash-bail-in-california\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pay money\u003c/a> to secure their release ahead of trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't think it's an overstatement to say Jerry Brown has been visionary in this area. He looked down the road, saw what needed to be done, and then figured out what to do and did it. That's the definition of a visionary,” Leno said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All those policy changes, Leno said, will impact the state’s criminal justice system for years to come.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'He in some ways almost reverted more back to his Jesuit roots of fairness and making sure people have second chances in life,' said former state Sen. Mark Leno.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1546116964,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":41,"wordCount":1645},"headData":{"title":"Jerry Brown Will Leave Lasting Impact on Criminal Justice in California | KQED","description":"'He in some ways almost reverted more back to his Jesuit roots of fairness and making sure people have second chances in life,' said former state Sen. Mark Leno.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11714104 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11714104","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/12/29/jerry-brown-will-leave-lasting-impact-on-criminal-justice-in-california/","disqusTitle":"Jerry Brown Will Leave Lasting Impact on Criminal Justice in California","path":"/news/11714104/jerry-brown-will-leave-lasting-impact-on-criminal-justice-in-california","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>During his first stint as California governor 40 years ago, Jerry Brown appointed a slew of diverse — sometimes controversial — judges and signed a sentencing law that fundamentally changed how the state approached punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, things weren’t so different during Brown’s second go-around in the governor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/guvtransition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brown Out, Newsom In\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/guvtransition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2018/12/20/JerryBrownMain.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the Jerry Brown era winds down and California prepares for the governorship of Gavin Newsom, KQED is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/guvtransition\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">looking back\u003c/a> at Gov. Brown’s legacy and ahead to the challenges and opportunities facing Gov.-elect Newsom.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Over the past eight years, Brown oversaw a dramatic shift in how California approaches criminal justice, including authoring a law that upended how the state treats nonviolent offenders and writing a ballot measure that rolled back the \"lock 'em up\" sentencing philosophy he championed in 1976. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time around, the governor appointed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714131/browns-longest-lasting-legacy-judges\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more than 600 judges\u003c/a>, including four to the state’s high court who represent not just more women and people of color, but also a much broader set of career experiences and philosophical backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he’s gone much further than he did in the 1970s and 1980s: Over his final two terms, Brown issued 1,189 pardons and 152 commutations — dwarfing any of his predecessors and his own previous record, when he issued 404 pardons and just one commutation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also vetoed dozens of bills that would have created new crimes and signed numerous sentencing reforms that give offenders chances at shorter sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brown's Evolution on Criminal Justice\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, Brown’s evolution tracks with that of California voters, who have embraced even further-reaching criminal justice reforms than the governor initially wanted. Both Brown and the electorate were encouraged down that path by a landmark legal case that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court ordering the state to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2011/05/23/136579580/california-is-ordered-to-cut-its-prison-population\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reduce its prison population\u003c/a> by tens of thousands of inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the state has about 34,000 fewer people in state prisons than it did when Brown was sworn into the governor's office in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gov. Brown has presided over a legacy of criminal justice reform that is really unmatched across the country,” said Stanford University’s Michael Romano, who runs the university’s Three Strikes Project and helped write two of the recent criminal justice ballot initiatives that Brown was not involved in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole United States prison population has come down over the past 10 years, and all of that reduction is a result of the reductions that we've seen in California. And at the same time, the crime rates in California from when these reforms started to kick in, in 2011, to today are down,” Romano said. “So we've been able to reduce our prison population, significantly reduce the amount of injustice in the system, and improve public safety. And Gov. Brown has presided over that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714131/browns-longest-lasting-legacy-judges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brown's Longest-Lasting Legacy: Judges\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714131/browns-longest-lasting-legacy-judges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/RS4469_106397071-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The governor's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714131/browns-longest-lasting-legacy-judges\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">judicial appointments\u003c/a> will leave a lasting imprint on the state, breaking the mold with candidates from diverse professional and personal backgrounds.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Romano credited Brown for his creative approach to the problem, saying the governor — the only person to ever lead California for four terms — understands the power of that office and what he called “the administrative state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that both of the sweeping laws that Brown authored — Assembly Bill 109, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11107949/realignment-5-years-on-counties-build-jails-for-inmates-with-mental-illness\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">known as realignment\u003c/a>, and Proposition 57, which made broad changes to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11114572/jerry-brown-pushes-earlier-release-of-felons-under-proposition-57\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">parole rules\u003c/a> — did not rely on simply reducing criminal sentences or throwing the doors of prisons and jails open indiscriminately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has not reduced a single sentence\" with the changes in law, Romano said, \"but he has shifted the responsibility and the incentives within the system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Proposition 57, which voters approved in 2016, that meant giving prison officials more flexibility to reward prisoners who have participated in rehabilitative programs with shorter sentences. Under AB 109, it meant redirecting most nonviolent offenders to county jails instead of state prisons to serve their sentences, giving counties more incentives to rehabilitate offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown pushed both measures not only because he came to believe that many of the “tough on crime” laws of the 1980s and 1990s were a mistake, but because he had to. In the first months of his second administration, the U.S. Supreme Court issued that order, telling California its overcrowded prisons were unconstitutional because inmates were being denied medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the changes championed by the governor haven't been without critics, Romano believes Brown’s approach was brilliant because it avoided the political pitfalls of releasing inmates early, and marshaled forces Brown had at his disposal within state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This type of administrative reform has proven in some ways to be more effective than any other type of criminal justice reform and mass incarceration reform that we typically talk about,” Romano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Too Much Change Too Quickly'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, not everyone is on board. Law enforcement groups opposed most of the major sentencing reforms that have been adopted in recent years, and continue to blame those changes for the increase in property crimes that some communities have experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morgan Hill Police Chief David Swing is president of the California Police Chiefs Association. He said there’s been a “sea change” in how the state approaches criminal justice under Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714250/governor-jerry-brown-on-leaving-office-leftover-campaign-cash-lessons-from-his-mother-and-car-shopping\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LISTEN: Gov. Brown Exit Interview with 'Political Breakdown'\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714250/governor-jerry-brown-on-leaving-office-leftover-campaign-cash-lessons-from-his-mother-and-car-shopping\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/JB-Politcal-Breakdown-1180x886.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gov. Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714250/governor-jerry-brown-on-leaving-office-leftover-campaign-cash-lessons-from-his-mother-and-car-shopping\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sat down\u003c/a> with KQED politics reporter Marisa Lagos and editor Scott Shafer at the governor's mansion in Sacramento to talk about life after office, his plans for his unspent campaign cash, what Democrats need in 2020, challenges for Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom and the influence of his mother.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“And we would say that it's been too much change too quickly,” he said. “When you have that much change all at once, there isn't an opportunity to really evaluate the efficacy of those programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swing is right. The state has not made an effort to track the effects of many of the changes, instead relying on outside groups like universities and think tanks to draw their own conclusions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He believes the reforms have come at a cost but — in a sign of how far the conversation has come over the past decade — he also said police groups don’t want to return to the days of simply locking people up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that incarceration doesn't solve the problem. There has to be a program afterwards, even during custody, in order for someone to have the best chance of being successful,” he said, arguing that the state hasn’t done enough to invest in those types of programs amid the significant reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swing also said the state has gone too far, particularly with measures like the voter-approved Proposition 47, which Brown did not support when it was on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10652368/proposition-47-gives-former-felons-a-new-chance\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 47\u003c/a> helped reduce the prison population by reducing most drug possession charges from felonies to misdemeanors — meaning those inmates would serve their time in local jails, not state prisons — and made petty theft of items up to $950 a misdemeanor as well. It also allowed people to retroactively petition courts to change their sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Changing Relationship With Law Enforcement\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former state Sen. Mark Leno said the history behind Proposition 47 shows how law enforcement, long a powerful lobbying force in Sacramento, overreached at times during Brown’s tenure. And how the governor became increasingly more willing to push back against police and prosecutors over his two terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leno said prior to voters weighing in on Proposition 47 in 2014, he authored a measure that didn’t go quite as far as the initiative, but would have let prosecutors decide whether to charge someone with a felony or misdemeanor in many drug and petty theft cases. But law enforcement groups — particularly prosecutors — lobbied the governor to veto the bill, and he did.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689707/in-shift-california-lawmakers-embrace-some-ambitious-criminal-justice-reforms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In Shift, California Lawmakers Embrace Some Ambitious Criminal Justice Reforms\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689707/in-shift-california-lawmakers-embrace-some-ambitious-criminal-justice-reforms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS26392_IMG_1968-qut-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The last legislative session under Gov. Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689707/in-shift-california-lawmakers-embrace-some-ambitious-criminal-justice-reforms\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bucked law enforcement\u003c/a> to pass laws ending cash bail, reforming the felony murder rule and opening up police records, among others.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When he was elected in 2010, Leno noted, Brown was attorney general and had the support of all the state’s major law enforcement groups. But by the last few years of his governorship, Brown was pushing ballot measures, like Proposition 57, against the wishes of district attorneys and signing police oversight bills over the cries of police associations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once he became governor he probably had a clearer view of how serious the prison crisis was and that he was under court order to do something about it,” Leno said. “He in some ways almost reverted more back to his Jesuit roots of fairness and making sure people have second chances in life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That meant signing bills that reduced criminal sentences, Leno said, but also vetoing those that would have led to more people being incarcerated. It included signing a landmark bail reform bill last year that, if upheld by the voters in 2020, will eliminate the requirement that suspects \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689184/gov-brown-signs-bill-ending-cash-bail-in-california\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pay money\u003c/a> to secure their release ahead of trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't think it's an overstatement to say Jerry Brown has been visionary in this area. He looked down the road, saw what needed to be done, and then figured out what to do and did it. That's the definition of a visionary,” Leno said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All those policy changes, Leno said, will impact the state’s criminal justice system for years to come.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11714104/jerry-brown-will-leave-lasting-impact-on-criminal-justice-in-california","authors":["3239"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_18821","news_2704","news_616","news_22276","news_19542","news_24715","news_30","news_18502","news_18418","news_765"],"featImg":"news_11714850","label":"news_72"},"news_11669703":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11669703","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11669703","score":null,"sort":[1526990407000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-will-jerry-browns-departure-mean-for-criminal-justice-in-california","title":"What Will Jerry Brown's Departure Mean for Criminal Justice in California?","publishDate":1526990407,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>When Gov. Jerry Brown was sworn in seven years ago, he inherited a prison system that by most accounts was at a breaking point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years of “tough on crime” laws had packed state lockups to the brim. Federal judges \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/us/24scotus.html\">told California leaders they needed to reduce the prison population by 40,000 inmates\u003c/a>, or else the court would start releasing prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So one of Brown’s first big moves as governor was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2011/04/05/news16964/\">proposal to massively change how the state dealt with nonviolent offenders\u003c/a>: Assembly Bill 109 shifted their sentences from state prison to county jails, and let them report to county probation departments rather than state parole officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters, including state Sen. Mark Leno, said the change -- dubbed “criminal justice realignment” -- would let the state save money, reduce crowding and tackle its dismal recidivism rate, which saw 70 percent of offenders return to prison within three years of release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leno, a San Francisco Democrat, carried the \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB109\">663-page realignment bill\u003c/a> through the Senate, a proposal that Republicans opposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we can all acknowledge we have a failed very expensive system currently,” Leno told lawmakers during a March 2011 debate. “For example, if someone has a drug or alcohol problem, currently when they fail parole, we send them back to state prison at a cost of about $50,000 a year. And guess what -- we’re not dealing with the problem. Locals, with the funding we will be providing, will be able to invest in a variety of different programs, to get to the core of the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The success of realignment \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11108031/five-years-later-many-see-criminal-justice-realignment-as-success\">is still being debated\u003c/a>. But it's clear that the bill was just the beginning of a series of sweeping criminal justice reforms California would embrace over Brown’s two terms in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Where the candidates stand\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\"As governor, I will reverse the soft-on-crime laws of Jerry Brown and the California Democrats. Liberal laws like AB 109 and Propositions 47 and 57 have released thousands of criminals and sex offenders from jails and prisons and into our neighborhoods, feeding the explosion of homeless encampments, drug users and criminals in our neighborhoods.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Travis Allen\u003c/cite>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\"As governor, I will help lead the difficult conversations that must happen between law enforcement and communities of color and emphasize a community-oriented approach to policing that builds stronger relationships and understanding.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>John Chiang\u003c/cite>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\"I'd take a very different approach than Jerry Brown's. On day one as governor I would act to end the sanctuary state law. I will also advocate for full repeal of Prop. 47 and AB 109 to remove the criminal element plaguing our streets.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite> John Cox\u003c/cite>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\"I believe strongly that our next governor should lead efforts to eliminate the discriminatory cash bail system and take on the private prison industrial complex. Bail bondsmen and the for-profit prison industry should have no place in California's future.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Gavin Newsom\u003c/cite>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\"Research has made abundantly clear that investments in early care and education have significant impacts in improving educational outcomes. The school to prison pipeline must be broken. So I will continue to work on the path of reforming our criminal justice system.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Antonio Villaraigosa\u003c/cite>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some of the most far-reaching reforms came at the ballot box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10652368/proposition-47-gives-former-felons-a-new-chance\">lowered most drug possession offenses\u003c/a> from felonies to misdemeanors, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Prop-36-Three-strikes-changes-approved-4014677.php\">softened the three strikes law\u003c/a>, legalized \u003ca href=\"http://time.com/4565438/california-marijuana-faq-rules-prop-64/\">marijuana\u003c/a> and embraced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11081078/gov-brown-sees-prop-57-as-key-to-ending-court-prison-oversight\">sweeping parole changes\u003c/a> pushed by Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Capitol, Brown signed dozens of laws reshaping criminal sentences, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailynews.com/2017/10/19/revealing-rejections-jerry-browns-vetoes-are-a-window-into-his-mind/\">and vetoed bills\u003c/a> that would have created new crimes or increased sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what will a new governor mean for California and Brown’s criminal justice legacy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot would change if a Republican won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businessman John Cox and state Assemblyman Travis Allen are both vowing to repeal most of Brown’s signature criminal justice reforms and others backed by voters, including \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_47,_Reduced_Penalties_for_Some_Crimes_Initiative_(2014)\">Proposition 47\u003c/a>, the 2014 ballot measure that made some theft and most drug possession charges misdemeanors. That measure has helped reduce the populations in county jails, and allowed thousands of people with past relevant felonies to petition the courts to have their records cleared. Any changes would need to be approved by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics blame Proposition 47 for the \u003ca href=\"https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/crime-statistics/crimes-clearances\">slight increase\u003c/a> in property crimes seen statewide since 2014 and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Property-crimes-violence-increases-in-San-12723981.php\">large spikes in some big cities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'd take a very different approach than Jerry Brown's,\" Cox said in a statement to KQED. \"On day one as governor I would act to end the sanctuary state law, I will also advocate for full repeal of Prop.47 and AB 109 to remove the criminal element plaguing our streets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen went even further, promising to “reverse the soft-on-crime laws of Jerry Brown and the California Democrats,” including Brown’s \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_57,_Parole_for_Non-Violent_Criminals_and_Juvenile_Court_Trial_Requirements_(2016)\">Proposition 57\u003c/a>, which made it easier for people who participate in rehabilitation programs to win their parole from prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen also vowed to return to a tougher three strikes law; voters embraced \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/3-strikes-law-revised-under-Prop-36-3930347.php\">changes to that law in 2012\u003c/a>. And, he called for repealing some of the state’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-gun-bill-timeline-20171002-htmlstory.html\">tough gun control measures. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Liberal laws like AB 109 and Propositions 47 and 57 have released thousands of criminals and sex offenders from jails and prisons and into our neighborhoods, feeding the explosion of homeless encampments, drug users and criminals in our neighborhoods,” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, Republicans make up only about one-quarter of the electorate in California, making it far more likely that the next governor will be a Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that’s the case, don’t expect a big shift on criminal justice, said Jessica Levinson, a law professor at Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you see (among Democrats) is kind of a race to be the most reform-minded criminal justice proponent,” she said. “You hear a lot of talk from all of them about basically how we need to take preventative measures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinson said she doesn’t see much daylight among the three leading Democrats -- Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, state Treasurer John Chiang and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are clearly some differences among the candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11669748\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11669748\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/GettyImages-693098880-1-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/GettyImages-693098880-1-800x537.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/GettyImages-693098880-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/GettyImages-693098880-1-1020x684.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/GettyImages-693098880-1-1200x805.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/GettyImages-693098880-1-1920x1288.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/GettyImages-693098880-1-1180x791.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/GettyImages-693098880-1-960x644.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/GettyImages-693098880-1-240x161.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/GettyImages-693098880-1-375x252.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/GettyImages-693098880-1-520x349.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Villaraigosa, for example, has tried to strike a middle path, saying he supports reforms and opposes the death penalty. In a statement to KQED, Villaraigosa noted that he long opposed the state’s draconian three strikes law, which voters approved in 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has taken our country too long to recognize that the war on drugs and the politics of being tough on crime led to our country's crisis of mass incarceration,\" Villaraigosa said. \"Governor Brown and our state have taken important steps to reform our criminal justice system but much remains to be done. I will continue to work on the path of reforming our criminal justice system. As I have done throughout my career, I will continue to work on reducing incarceration levels, capital punishment and creating economic opportunities that address the root causes of crime and desperation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Villaraigosa also has been critical of realignment and of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11613892/bail-reform-gets-backing-of-governor-chief-justice-but-put-off-to-2018\">a push to move away from California's money bail system\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those positions helped him \u003ca href=\"https://antonioforcalifornia.com/news/ca-police-chiefs-association-porac-antonio-villaraigosa/\">win the backing of several law enforcement groups\u003c/a>, including the Police Officers Research Association of California (PORAC), that have been among the most vocal critics of Brown’s criminal justice agenda. PORAC and others are backing a ballot measure to roll back some of the changes included in Propositions 47 and 57, an initiative those close to the governor see as an attack on his criminal justice accomplishments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PORAC President Brian Marvel noted that Villaraigosa was once speaker of the state Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Which shows that he has the ability to build coalitions, which I think are important. Coalition-building and getting support from a wide variety of interest groups is not easy,” said Marvel, adding that rank-and-file police groups represented by PORAC were often left out of discussions around criminal justice policy in recent years. His group believes Villaraigosa would include them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staking out a more progressive position is Newsom. He has embraced criminal justice reforms, pushing gun control and marijuana legalization at the ballot box and speaking out in favor of bail reform, which lawmakers are currently considering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, Newsom said he would go even further than Brown, and took a swipe at Villaraigosa, who has accepted money from people in the bail industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11657185\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11657185\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20460_GettyImages-583816238-qut-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20460_GettyImages-583816238-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20460_GettyImages-583816238-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20460_GettyImages-583816238-qut-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20460_GettyImages-583816238-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20460_GettyImages-583816238-qut-1180x789.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20460_GettyImages-583816238-qut-960x642.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20460_GettyImages-583816238-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20460_GettyImages-583816238-qut-375x251.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20460_GettyImages-583816238-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom. \u003ccite>(NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I think the governor should be commended for his leadership fighting for sentencing reform, and, unlike my opponents, I was a vocal proponent for Brown's efforts at the ballot box,\" he said. \"But we can't stop there. I was proud to lead efforts to roll back the racist war on drugs, and unlike Antonio Villaraigosa, I believe strongly that our next governor should lead efforts to eliminate the discriminatory cash bail system and take on the private prison industrial complex. Bail bondsmen and the for-profit prison industry should have no place in California's future. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown hasn't weighed in on the governor's race. But Newsom's positions on criminal justice have won him the backing of those close to Brown, including Dana Williamson, a former aide and current political adviser to the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lieutenant governor’s really the only candidate who has talked about criminal justice reform and embraced the concept that we should be rehabilitating people and, you know, giving them a chance to do better,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652150\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29585_Chiang-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"State Treasurer John Chiang walks though the California Democratic Convention in San Diego.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29585_Chiang-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29585_Chiang-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29585_Chiang-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29585_Chiang-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29585_Chiang-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29585_Chiang-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29585_Chiang-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29585_Chiang-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29585_Chiang-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Treasurer John Chiang walks though the California Democratic convention in San Diego. \u003ccite>(Katie Orr/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chiang hasn’t talked much about criminal justice on the campaign trail but laid out a middle-of-the-road approach to KQED, saying he supports bail reform and putting resources behind helping criminal offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As governor, I will help lead the difficult conversations that must happen between law enforcement and communities of color and emphasize a community-oriented approach to policing that builds stronger relationships and understanding,” he said. “At the same time, we need to fully fund our police departments so they can recruit the best officers and provide them with the kind of training they need to understand how to work and live with diverse communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former state Schools Superintendent Delaine Eastin has also\u003ca href=\"https://www.delaineforgovernor.com/her_vision#justice\"> staked out a very progressive position on criminal justice\u003c/a> but is trailing in polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While voters might be able to tease out candidates’ stances on policy, there are other, less discussed arenas of governing where Brown’s decisions have made a big impact. Brown has named a far \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10869617/browns-judicial-appointments-reflect-shift-away-from-harsh-sentencing-policies\">more diverse set of judges\u003c/a> and parole board members than his predecessors, and allowed \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2014/mar/19/governor-brown-releasing-more-lifers/\">a record number of parole releases to go forward.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The appointments to the bench do have a very important, long-term effect,” said Kent Scheidegger, legal director of the conservative Criminal Justice Legal Foundation and a critic of Brown’s approach to criminal justice. “It's a gradual one that doesn't necessarily show up right away. But I think we are seeing California courts generally, and the California Supreme Court in particular, being more receptive to arguments made by defendants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scheidegger said the governor's political power -- and fundraising strength -- have also had an impact. Brown has put his sizable war chest behind promoting changes at the ballot box like 2016’s Proposition 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That measure chipped away at a legacy from Brown’s first terms as governor that many blame for the prison overcrowding: determinate sentencing, which sets a fixed prison term at the time of conviction. Proposition 57 gave the parole board more discretion on when to release an inmate. Scheidegger opposed Proposition 57, and believes the governor is “fundamentally mistaken on a lot of sentencing issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But criminal justice reform advocates like Lenore Anderson believe the changes of the last seven years are only the beginning. Anderson is director of Californians for Safety and Justice, which wrote Proposition 47.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What's been so exciting to see in California over the last few years is the popularity of criminal justice reform being demonstrated at the ballot,” she said. “Realignment was enacted through the Legislature and at the time the common-sense thinking was that the public may not be ready for criminal justice reform. But what we found out through Prop. 47 and Prop. 57 is the reverse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson believes the next governor should tackle something that seemed impossible just seven years ago: closing state prisons and finally reducing the amount of money Californians spend on incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Realignment was just the beginning of a series of sweeping reforms that California would embrace over the governor's two terms in office.\r\n\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1527014699,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":46,"wordCount":2155},"headData":{"title":"What Will Jerry Brown's Departure Mean for Criminal Justice in California? | KQED","description":"Realignment was just the beginning of a series of sweeping reforms that California would embrace over the governor's two terms in office.\r\n\r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11669703 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11669703","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/05/22/what-will-jerry-browns-departure-mean-for-criminal-justice-in-california/","disqusTitle":"What Will Jerry Brown's Departure Mean for Criminal Justice in California?","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2018/05/LagosBrownCriminalJusticeTCRAM180522.mp3","path":"/news/11669703/what-will-jerry-browns-departure-mean-for-criminal-justice-in-california","audioDuration":270000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Gov. Jerry Brown was sworn in seven years ago, he inherited a prison system that by most accounts was at a breaking point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years of “tough on crime” laws had packed state lockups to the brim. Federal judges \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/us/24scotus.html\">told California leaders they needed to reduce the prison population by 40,000 inmates\u003c/a>, or else the court would start releasing prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So one of Brown’s first big moves as governor was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2011/04/05/news16964/\">proposal to massively change how the state dealt with nonviolent offenders\u003c/a>: Assembly Bill 109 shifted their sentences from state prison to county jails, and let them report to county probation departments rather than state parole officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters, including state Sen. Mark Leno, said the change -- dubbed “criminal justice realignment” -- would let the state save money, reduce crowding and tackle its dismal recidivism rate, which saw 70 percent of offenders return to prison within three years of release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leno, a San Francisco Democrat, carried the \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB109\">663-page realignment bill\u003c/a> through the Senate, a proposal that Republicans opposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we can all acknowledge we have a failed very expensive system currently,” Leno told lawmakers during a March 2011 debate. “For example, if someone has a drug or alcohol problem, currently when they fail parole, we send them back to state prison at a cost of about $50,000 a year. And guess what -- we’re not dealing with the problem. Locals, with the funding we will be providing, will be able to invest in a variety of different programs, to get to the core of the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The success of realignment \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11108031/five-years-later-many-see-criminal-justice-realignment-as-success\">is still being debated\u003c/a>. But it's clear that the bill was just the beginning of a series of sweeping criminal justice reforms California would embrace over Brown’s two terms in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Where the candidates stand\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\"As governor, I will reverse the soft-on-crime laws of Jerry Brown and the California Democrats. Liberal laws like AB 109 and Propositions 47 and 57 have released thousands of criminals and sex offenders from jails and prisons and into our neighborhoods, feeding the explosion of homeless encampments, drug users and criminals in our neighborhoods.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Travis Allen\u003c/cite>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\"As governor, I will help lead the difficult conversations that must happen between law enforcement and communities of color and emphasize a community-oriented approach to policing that builds stronger relationships and understanding.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>John Chiang\u003c/cite>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\"I'd take a very different approach than Jerry Brown's. On day one as governor I would act to end the sanctuary state law. I will also advocate for full repeal of Prop. 47 and AB 109 to remove the criminal element plaguing our streets.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite> John Cox\u003c/cite>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\"I believe strongly that our next governor should lead efforts to eliminate the discriminatory cash bail system and take on the private prison industrial complex. Bail bondsmen and the for-profit prison industry should have no place in California's future.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Gavin Newsom\u003c/cite>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\"Research has made abundantly clear that investments in early care and education have significant impacts in improving educational outcomes. The school to prison pipeline must be broken. So I will continue to work on the path of reforming our criminal justice system.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Antonio Villaraigosa\u003c/cite>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Some of the most far-reaching reforms came at the ballot box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10652368/proposition-47-gives-former-felons-a-new-chance\">lowered most drug possession offenses\u003c/a> from felonies to misdemeanors, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Prop-36-Three-strikes-changes-approved-4014677.php\">softened the three strikes law\u003c/a>, legalized \u003ca href=\"http://time.com/4565438/california-marijuana-faq-rules-prop-64/\">marijuana\u003c/a> and embraced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11081078/gov-brown-sees-prop-57-as-key-to-ending-court-prison-oversight\">sweeping parole changes\u003c/a> pushed by Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Capitol, Brown signed dozens of laws reshaping criminal sentences, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailynews.com/2017/10/19/revealing-rejections-jerry-browns-vetoes-are-a-window-into-his-mind/\">and vetoed bills\u003c/a> that would have created new crimes or increased sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what will a new governor mean for California and Brown’s criminal justice legacy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot would change if a Republican won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businessman John Cox and state Assemblyman Travis Allen are both vowing to repeal most of Brown’s signature criminal justice reforms and others backed by voters, including \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_47,_Reduced_Penalties_for_Some_Crimes_Initiative_(2014)\">Proposition 47\u003c/a>, the 2014 ballot measure that made some theft and most drug possession charges misdemeanors. That measure has helped reduce the populations in county jails, and allowed thousands of people with past relevant felonies to petition the courts to have their records cleared. Any changes would need to be approved by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics blame Proposition 47 for the \u003ca href=\"https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/crime-statistics/crimes-clearances\">slight increase\u003c/a> in property crimes seen statewide since 2014 and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Property-crimes-violence-increases-in-San-12723981.php\">large spikes in some big cities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'd take a very different approach than Jerry Brown's,\" Cox said in a statement to KQED. \"On day one as governor I would act to end the sanctuary state law, I will also advocate for full repeal of Prop.47 and AB 109 to remove the criminal element plaguing our streets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen went even further, promising to “reverse the soft-on-crime laws of Jerry Brown and the California Democrats,” including Brown’s \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_57,_Parole_for_Non-Violent_Criminals_and_Juvenile_Court_Trial_Requirements_(2016)\">Proposition 57\u003c/a>, which made it easier for people who participate in rehabilitation programs to win their parole from prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen also vowed to return to a tougher three strikes law; voters embraced \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/3-strikes-law-revised-under-Prop-36-3930347.php\">changes to that law in 2012\u003c/a>. And, he called for repealing some of the state’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-gun-bill-timeline-20171002-htmlstory.html\">tough gun control measures. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Liberal laws like AB 109 and Propositions 47 and 57 have released thousands of criminals and sex offenders from jails and prisons and into our neighborhoods, feeding the explosion of homeless encampments, drug users and criminals in our neighborhoods,” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, Republicans make up only about one-quarter of the electorate in California, making it far more likely that the next governor will be a Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that’s the case, don’t expect a big shift on criminal justice, said Jessica Levinson, a law professor at Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you see (among Democrats) is kind of a race to be the most reform-minded criminal justice proponent,” she said. “You hear a lot of talk from all of them about basically how we need to take preventative measures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levinson said she doesn’t see much daylight among the three leading Democrats -- Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, state Treasurer John Chiang and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are clearly some differences among the candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11669748\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11669748\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/GettyImages-693098880-1-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/GettyImages-693098880-1-800x537.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/GettyImages-693098880-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/GettyImages-693098880-1-1020x684.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/GettyImages-693098880-1-1200x805.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/GettyImages-693098880-1-1920x1288.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/GettyImages-693098880-1-1180x791.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/GettyImages-693098880-1-960x644.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/GettyImages-693098880-1-240x161.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/GettyImages-693098880-1-375x252.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/GettyImages-693098880-1-520x349.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Villaraigosa, for example, has tried to strike a middle path, saying he supports reforms and opposes the death penalty. In a statement to KQED, Villaraigosa noted that he long opposed the state’s draconian three strikes law, which voters approved in 1994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has taken our country too long to recognize that the war on drugs and the politics of being tough on crime led to our country's crisis of mass incarceration,\" Villaraigosa said. \"Governor Brown and our state have taken important steps to reform our criminal justice system but much remains to be done. I will continue to work on the path of reforming our criminal justice system. As I have done throughout my career, I will continue to work on reducing incarceration levels, capital punishment and creating economic opportunities that address the root causes of crime and desperation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Villaraigosa also has been critical of realignment and of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11613892/bail-reform-gets-backing-of-governor-chief-justice-but-put-off-to-2018\">a push to move away from California's money bail system\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those positions helped him \u003ca href=\"https://antonioforcalifornia.com/news/ca-police-chiefs-association-porac-antonio-villaraigosa/\">win the backing of several law enforcement groups\u003c/a>, including the Police Officers Research Association of California (PORAC), that have been among the most vocal critics of Brown’s criminal justice agenda. PORAC and others are backing a ballot measure to roll back some of the changes included in Propositions 47 and 57, an initiative those close to the governor see as an attack on his criminal justice accomplishments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PORAC President Brian Marvel noted that Villaraigosa was once speaker of the state Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Which shows that he has the ability to build coalitions, which I think are important. Coalition-building and getting support from a wide variety of interest groups is not easy,” said Marvel, adding that rank-and-file police groups represented by PORAC were often left out of discussions around criminal justice policy in recent years. His group believes Villaraigosa would include them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staking out a more progressive position is Newsom. He has embraced criminal justice reforms, pushing gun control and marijuana legalization at the ballot box and speaking out in favor of bail reform, which lawmakers are currently considering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, Newsom said he would go even further than Brown, and took a swipe at Villaraigosa, who has accepted money from people in the bail industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11657185\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11657185\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20460_GettyImages-583816238-qut-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20460_GettyImages-583816238-qut-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20460_GettyImages-583816238-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20460_GettyImages-583816238-qut-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20460_GettyImages-583816238-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20460_GettyImages-583816238-qut-1180x789.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20460_GettyImages-583816238-qut-960x642.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20460_GettyImages-583816238-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20460_GettyImages-583816238-qut-375x251.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS20460_GettyImages-583816238-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom. \u003ccite>(NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I think the governor should be commended for his leadership fighting for sentencing reform, and, unlike my opponents, I was a vocal proponent for Brown's efforts at the ballot box,\" he said. \"But we can't stop there. I was proud to lead efforts to roll back the racist war on drugs, and unlike Antonio Villaraigosa, I believe strongly that our next governor should lead efforts to eliminate the discriminatory cash bail system and take on the private prison industrial complex. Bail bondsmen and the for-profit prison industry should have no place in California's future. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown hasn't weighed in on the governor's race. But Newsom's positions on criminal justice have won him the backing of those close to Brown, including Dana Williamson, a former aide and current political adviser to the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lieutenant governor’s really the only candidate who has talked about criminal justice reform and embraced the concept that we should be rehabilitating people and, you know, giving them a chance to do better,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11652150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11652150\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29585_Chiang-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"State Treasurer John Chiang walks though the California Democratic Convention in San Diego.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29585_Chiang-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29585_Chiang-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29585_Chiang-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29585_Chiang-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29585_Chiang-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29585_Chiang-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29585_Chiang-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29585_Chiang-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29585_Chiang-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Treasurer John Chiang walks though the California Democratic convention in San Diego. \u003ccite>(Katie Orr/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chiang hasn’t talked much about criminal justice on the campaign trail but laid out a middle-of-the-road approach to KQED, saying he supports bail reform and putting resources behind helping criminal offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As governor, I will help lead the difficult conversations that must happen between law enforcement and communities of color and emphasize a community-oriented approach to policing that builds stronger relationships and understanding,” he said. “At the same time, we need to fully fund our police departments so they can recruit the best officers and provide them with the kind of training they need to understand how to work and live with diverse communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former state Schools Superintendent Delaine Eastin has also\u003ca href=\"https://www.delaineforgovernor.com/her_vision#justice\"> staked out a very progressive position on criminal justice\u003c/a> but is trailing in polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While voters might be able to tease out candidates’ stances on policy, there are other, less discussed arenas of governing where Brown’s decisions have made a big impact. Brown has named a far \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10869617/browns-judicial-appointments-reflect-shift-away-from-harsh-sentencing-policies\">more diverse set of judges\u003c/a> and parole board members than his predecessors, and allowed \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2014/mar/19/governor-brown-releasing-more-lifers/\">a record number of parole releases to go forward.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The appointments to the bench do have a very important, long-term effect,” said Kent Scheidegger, legal director of the conservative Criminal Justice Legal Foundation and a critic of Brown’s approach to criminal justice. “It's a gradual one that doesn't necessarily show up right away. But I think we are seeing California courts generally, and the California Supreme Court in particular, being more receptive to arguments made by defendants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scheidegger said the governor's political power -- and fundraising strength -- have also had an impact. Brown has put his sizable war chest behind promoting changes at the ballot box like 2016’s Proposition 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That measure chipped away at a legacy from Brown’s first terms as governor that many blame for the prison overcrowding: determinate sentencing, which sets a fixed prison term at the time of conviction. Proposition 57 gave the parole board more discretion on when to release an inmate. Scheidegger opposed Proposition 57, and believes the governor is “fundamentally mistaken on a lot of sentencing issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But criminal justice reform advocates like Lenore Anderson believe the changes of the last seven years are only the beginning. Anderson is director of Californians for Safety and Justice, which wrote Proposition 47.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What's been so exciting to see in California over the last few years is the popularity of criminal justice reform being demonstrated at the ballot,” she said. “Realignment was enacted through the Legislature and at the time the common-sense thinking was that the public may not be ready for criminal justice reform. But what we found out through Prop. 47 and Prop. 57 is the reverse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson believes the next governor should tackle something that seemed impossible just seven years ago: closing state prisons and finally reducing the amount of money Californians spend on incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11669703/what-will-jerry-browns-departure-mean-for-criminal-justice-in-california","authors":["3239"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_17627","news_22276","news_20191","news_19542","news_16","news_23202","news_30","news_592","news_20737","news_18418","news_765","news_17041","news_22379"],"featImg":"news_11669726","label":"news_72"},"news_11647139":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11647139","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11647139","score":null,"sort":[1517354791000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-may-up-its-rehab-efforts-to-keep-ex-inmates-from-returning-to-prison","title":"California May Up Its Rehab Efforts to Keep Ex-inmates From Returning to Prison","publishDate":1517354791,"format":"image","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown wants to add millions in new spending on programs to help former inmates stay out of jail—a proposal generating bipartisan praise because of concern they are returning to prison in large numbers. But some say it still isn't enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed $50 million would expand job training for prisoners and assist them in finding jobs once they are released, such as training them to become firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s budget plan also includes $106 million for an existing incentive program that rewards counties for reducing recidivism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many supporters say California must invest more to ensure the state’s criminal justice overhaul—which reduced state prison overcrowding by transferring low-level offenders to county jails and local supervision—achieves its goal of keeping ex-inmates from returning to prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The old way of locking people up and throwing away the key clearly hasn’t worked. It’s just led to a lot of costs but not a lot of results,” said Assemblyman Phil Ting, a San Francisco Democrat who chairs the Assembly’s budget committee. But he wants to see more money spent on efforts to prevent people who’ve served their time from committing crimes again, although he declined to give a specific amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Ay62FJygo1DXjDEm0sTB26Fx7h751URL\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we would love to see this year is perhaps a longer-term investment that may actually help reduce the population because they’re not recidivating anymore,” he said. “It’s an area that we’ve talked a lot about, but I don’t think that we’ve done enough or taken a harder look at what’s working and what’s not working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most troubling evidence of what’s not working: Of some 36,000 \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Adult_Research_Branch/Research_Documents/2017-Outcome-Evaluation-Report.pdf\">state\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Adult_Research_Branch/Research_Documents/2017-Outcome-Evaluation-Report.pdf\"> inmates\u003c/a> released in the most recent year for which state data are available, 46 percent were convicted of crimes again within three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a very miserable number. It indicates that the efforts, as currently constituted, are not being as successful as they need to be,” said Assemblyman Tom Lackey, a Palmdale Republican. He said he was happy to see the governor proposing new spending on anti-recidivism efforts, but plans to introduce legislation to audit rehabilitation programs to determine which are successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11647152\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11647152\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Inmates have worked fighting many recent wildfires in California. \" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-1180x784.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmates have worked fighting many recent wildfires in California. \u003ccite>(California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Experts say it’s difficult to directly compare recidivism rates among states, but California’s rate is considered high, said Mia Bird, a research fellow at the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California. California’s state prison population is about 130,000. The state’s incarceration rate had been higher than the national average in the past, but it has \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/r-118mlr.pdf\">fallen sharply\u003c/a>: Last year California had 334 state inmates for every 100,000 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of that dramatic decline was driven by a policy known as realignment, which after 2011 assigned the responsibility for new offenders determined to be less serious from state prisons to local jails or back into the community under supervision. Lawmakers made that major switch in 2011 after federal courts ruled California prisons were too overcrowded to provide inmates adequate health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters promoted realignment as a way to keep former inmates from reoffending by shifting more responsibility to county officials, who theoretically would understand better than the state what programs their communities need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/r_1217mbr.pdf\">study\u003c/a> by Bird and her colleagues found realignment had mixed effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"t5aJeUpXsipBafy1hAPPPX4NVLzeb14M\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Recidivism rates didn’t change much after realignment, so everyone can breathe a sigh of relief that they didn’t go up dramatically,” Bird said. But she acknowledged that recidivism levels are still high and have been for a long time. “In the short run, we might need to spend a bit more money in order to have some long-run gains.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After realignment kicked in, voters approved two initiatives to further lower incarceration rates by reducing punishment for low-level offenders: Proposition 47 in 2014 and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/proposition-57-criminal-sentencing/\">Proposition 57\u003c/a> in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But neither realignment nor the other changes have resulted in the crime reductions or savings supporters promised, said Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 47, which lessened penalties for lower-level crimes, including some types of theft and illegal drug use, “wreaked havoc” in California, she said, citing what she described as “rampant” and underreported retail theft as evidence the punishments under the law are too lenient to deter crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although realignment successfully reduced the state prison population, it also placed new strain on counties. They’ve received several billion dollars to cover the increased costs to house and supervise more people, but critics say it still isn’t enough to fund needed rehabilitative services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more resources,” Schubert said. “It’s not a cheap process to help get people back on track, but we have to be willing to invest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11647147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RECIDIVISM-graphic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"819\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RECIDIVISM-graphic.png 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RECIDIVISM-graphic-160x238.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RECIDIVISM-graphic-240x357.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RECIDIVISM-graphic-375x558.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RECIDIVISM-graphic-520x774.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown proposes to spend about $12 billion—9 percent of the state’s general fund—for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in the fiscal year that begins in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget includes more than $130 million to fix roofs, remove mold and update other aspects of aging infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it’s important for prison facilities to be maintained, money could be better spent on services for former inmates after they leave prison, said John Bauters of Californians for Safety and Justice, a group that advocates for criminal justice reform. The governor’s budget doesn’t make any “dramatic” changes to money spent on rehabilitation programs for inmates, which need to be matched by programs to help people when they re-enter society, Bauters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got so much money that is being spent right now on prison programs and the reality is that if we actually invest in proven prevention methods and rehabilitative programs, we won’t have the same need to spend that kind of money in the future,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer, who chairs the Assembly Public Safety Committee, also is advocating greater accountability—saying he’ll request a review of rehabilitation programs to ensure the state is investing in ones that work. The Los Angeles Democrat praised the investment in community incentives to lower recidivism rates, saying “I think it’s definitely going to be one of his legacy pieces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"YiAh5GAFkpZSz5lGEbraS4TXSwFdkZNR\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison reform has been a key goal of Brown’s throughout his current term as governor. He championed realignment and Proposition 57, which expands the portion of inmates eligible for parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been telling me for years that he really, really wanted to work on the overcrowding in our prisons,” Jones-Sawyer said. “He really felt for California to have one of the highest incarceration rates in the country, it really bothered him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some have criticized Brown’s approach to policies as too soft on crime. Sen. Jeff Stone blames realignment and other policy changes for what he characterizes as high crime rates in the state. “We are letting too many people out of jail and we aren’t putting enough people in jail or prison,” the Temecula Republican said. “We’re not holding people accountable for their crimes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between now and June, Brown and Democrats who run the Legislature will negotiate a final budget deal. Although the state is expecting a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-sitting-surplus-dont-expect-refund/\">$6 billion surplus\u003c/a> this year, Brown has repeated his usual caution to Democratic lawmakers, who typically push for more spending, to save much of that money for a future recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ting says he sees a key opportunity this year to invest in efforts to stop recidivism. It’s Brown’s final year in office and therefore his last chance to solidify the criminal justice policy changes he oversaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our hope is that we can find significant common ground in this area,” Ting said. “We want to ensure that every individual who’s in the system, we’re doing everything possible to work with them so they don’t come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sophia Bollag is a contributing writer to \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org\">\u003cem>CALmatters.org\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Gov. Jerry Brown wants to add millions in new spending on programs to help former inmates stay out of jail. But some say it still isn’t enough.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1517361071,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":36,"wordCount":1434},"headData":{"title":"California May Up Its Rehab Efforts to Keep Ex-inmates From Returning to Prison | KQED","description":"Gov. Jerry Brown wants to add millions in new spending on programs to help former inmates stay out of jail. But some say it still isn’t enough.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11647139 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11647139","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/01/30/california-may-up-its-rehab-efforts-to-keep-ex-inmates-from-returning-to-prison/","disqusTitle":"California May Up Its Rehab Efforts to Keep Ex-inmates From Returning to Prison","source":"CALmatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","nprByline":"Sophia Bollag","path":"/news/11647139/california-may-up-its-rehab-efforts-to-keep-ex-inmates-from-returning-to-prison","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown wants to add millions in new spending on programs to help former inmates stay out of jail—a proposal generating bipartisan praise because of concern they are returning to prison in large numbers. But some say it still isn't enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed $50 million would expand job training for prisoners and assist them in finding jobs once they are released, such as training them to become firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s budget plan also includes $106 million for an existing incentive program that rewards counties for reducing recidivism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many supporters say California must invest more to ensure the state’s criminal justice overhaul—which reduced state prison overcrowding by transferring low-level offenders to county jails and local supervision—achieves its goal of keeping ex-inmates from returning to prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The old way of locking people up and throwing away the key clearly hasn’t worked. It’s just led to a lot of costs but not a lot of results,” said Assemblyman Phil Ting, a San Francisco Democrat who chairs the Assembly’s budget committee. But he wants to see more money spent on efforts to prevent people who’ve served their time from committing crimes again, although he declined to give a specific amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we would love to see this year is perhaps a longer-term investment that may actually help reduce the population because they’re not recidivating anymore,” he said. “It’s an area that we’ve talked a lot about, but I don’t think that we’ve done enough or taken a harder look at what’s working and what’s not working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most troubling evidence of what’s not working: Of some 36,000 \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Adult_Research_Branch/Research_Documents/2017-Outcome-Evaluation-Report.pdf\">state\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Adult_Research_Branch/Research_Documents/2017-Outcome-Evaluation-Report.pdf\"> inmates\u003c/a> released in the most recent year for which state data are available, 46 percent were convicted of crimes again within three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a very miserable number. It indicates that the efforts, as currently constituted, are not being as successful as they need to be,” said Assemblyman Tom Lackey, a Palmdale Republican. He said he was happy to see the governor proposing new spending on anti-recidivism efforts, but plans to introduce legislation to audit rehabilitation programs to determine which are successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11647152\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11647152\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Inmates have worked fighting many recent wildfires in California. \" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-1180x784.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/InmateFirefighters-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmates have worked fighting many recent wildfires in California. \u003ccite>(California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Experts say it’s difficult to directly compare recidivism rates among states, but California’s rate is considered high, said Mia Bird, a research fellow at the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California. California’s state prison population is about 130,000. The state’s incarceration rate had been higher than the national average in the past, but it has \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/r-118mlr.pdf\">fallen sharply\u003c/a>: Last year California had 334 state inmates for every 100,000 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of that dramatic decline was driven by a policy known as realignment, which after 2011 assigned the responsibility for new offenders determined to be less serious from state prisons to local jails or back into the community under supervision. Lawmakers made that major switch in 2011 after federal courts ruled California prisons were too overcrowded to provide inmates adequate health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters promoted realignment as a way to keep former inmates from reoffending by shifting more responsibility to county officials, who theoretically would understand better than the state what programs their communities need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/r_1217mbr.pdf\">study\u003c/a> by Bird and her colleagues found realignment had mixed effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Recidivism rates didn’t change much after realignment, so everyone can breathe a sigh of relief that they didn’t go up dramatically,” Bird said. But she acknowledged that recidivism levels are still high and have been for a long time. “In the short run, we might need to spend a bit more money in order to have some long-run gains.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After realignment kicked in, voters approved two initiatives to further lower incarceration rates by reducing punishment for low-level offenders: Proposition 47 in 2014 and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/proposition-57-criminal-sentencing/\">Proposition 57\u003c/a> in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But neither realignment nor the other changes have resulted in the crime reductions or savings supporters promised, said Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 47, which lessened penalties for lower-level crimes, including some types of theft and illegal drug use, “wreaked havoc” in California, she said, citing what she described as “rampant” and underreported retail theft as evidence the punishments under the law are too lenient to deter crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although realignment successfully reduced the state prison population, it also placed new strain on counties. They’ve received several billion dollars to cover the increased costs to house and supervise more people, but critics say it still isn’t enough to fund needed rehabilitative services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more resources,” Schubert said. “It’s not a cheap process to help get people back on track, but we have to be willing to invest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11647147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RECIDIVISM-graphic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"819\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RECIDIVISM-graphic.png 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RECIDIVISM-graphic-160x238.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RECIDIVISM-graphic-240x357.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RECIDIVISM-graphic-375x558.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RECIDIVISM-graphic-520x774.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown proposes to spend about $12 billion—9 percent of the state’s general fund—for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in the fiscal year that begins in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget includes more than $130 million to fix roofs, remove mold and update other aspects of aging infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it’s important for prison facilities to be maintained, money could be better spent on services for former inmates after they leave prison, said John Bauters of Californians for Safety and Justice, a group that advocates for criminal justice reform. The governor’s budget doesn’t make any “dramatic” changes to money spent on rehabilitation programs for inmates, which need to be matched by programs to help people when they re-enter society, Bauters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got so much money that is being spent right now on prison programs and the reality is that if we actually invest in proven prevention methods and rehabilitative programs, we won’t have the same need to spend that kind of money in the future,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer, who chairs the Assembly Public Safety Committee, also is advocating greater accountability—saying he’ll request a review of rehabilitation programs to ensure the state is investing in ones that work. The Los Angeles Democrat praised the investment in community incentives to lower recidivism rates, saying “I think it’s definitely going to be one of his legacy pieces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison reform has been a key goal of Brown’s throughout his current term as governor. He championed realignment and Proposition 57, which expands the portion of inmates eligible for parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been telling me for years that he really, really wanted to work on the overcrowding in our prisons,” Jones-Sawyer said. “He really felt for California to have one of the highest incarceration rates in the country, it really bothered him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some have criticized Brown’s approach to policies as too soft on crime. Sen. Jeff Stone blames realignment and other policy changes for what he characterizes as high crime rates in the state. “We are letting too many people out of jail and we aren’t putting enough people in jail or prison,” the Temecula Republican said. “We’re not holding people accountable for their crimes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between now and June, Brown and Democrats who run the Legislature will negotiate a final budget deal. Although the state is expecting a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-sitting-surplus-dont-expect-refund/\">$6 billion surplus\u003c/a> this year, Brown has repeated his usual caution to Democratic lawmakers, who typically push for more spending, to save much of that money for a future recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ting says he sees a key opportunity this year to invest in efforts to stop recidivism. It’s Brown’s final year in office and therefore his last chance to solidify the criminal justice policy changes he oversaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our hope is that we can find significant common ground in this area,” Ting said. “We want to ensure that every individual who’s in the system, we’re doing everything possible to work with them so they don’t come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sophia Bollag is a contributing writer to \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org\">\u003cem>CALmatters.org\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11647139/california-may-up-its-rehab-efforts-to-keep-ex-inmates-from-returning-to-prison","authors":["byline_news_11647139"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_17725","news_30","news_1471","news_765","news_17286"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11647143","label":"source_news_11647139"},"news_11107949":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11107949","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11107949","score":null,"sort":[1475206287000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"realignment-5-years-on-counties-build-jails-for-inmates-with-mental-illness","title":"Realignment 5 Years On: Counties Build Jails for Inmates With Mental Illness","publishDate":1475206287,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Five years removed from one of the most sweeping criminal justice reforms ever implemented in the state, California's 58 counties are still coming to grips with the effects of the plan known as Public Safety Realignment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Realignment aimed to satisfy a U.S. Supreme Court order to reduce the state prison population by some 30,000 inmates by transferring responsibility to counties for felons sentenced for non-serious, nonviolent or non-sex offenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, at least 40 California counties have either completed or are planning jail construction projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/285422764\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's been about a $2.5 billion windfall for jail construction in California. And that's just counting state grants, not what counties are spending in matching funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I find it alarming,\" San Francisco Deputy Public Defender Jennifer Johnson said. \"Of course counties are going to try to get the money. It's setting counties up to have more jails.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many sheriffs say they don't choose the inmates they receive, and a lot of jail renovation and construction projects are now geared toward improving conditions for an increasing number of mentally ill inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright pullquote\">'Jails are just not treatment facilities.'\u003ccite>San Francisco-based clinical social worker Kathleen Lacey\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Plus, crowding in local lockups has also become less of an issue since the implementation of a second colossal change in criminal justice policy enacted in late 2014 -- Proposition 47.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative reclassified lower-level property and drug felonies to misdemeanors, and jail populations dropped by 8,752 in four months, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_quick.asp?i=1210\" target=\"_blank\">research\u003c/a> by the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, counties are building nearly 10,000 new jail cells with state funding, according to data from the Board of State and Community Corrections. Some of the projects have shifted recently, to improve conditions for inmates with psychiatric issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have projects like in Alameda [County], where they are refurbishing a wing of one of the facilities into a mental health space,\" PPIC researcher Brandon Martin said. \"Ventura [County] is building a new building that will be mental health specific. So is Butte County. Sonoma’s doing the same thing. Humboldt is doing the same thing. There is definitely a big shift.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also a big fight over it, with some treatment providers and advocates arguing that the state is prioritizing in-custody psychiatric services over a community-based approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where they’re putting their money is all in jails,\" said Lizzie Buchen, a spokeswoman for the advocacy group Californians United for a Responsible Budget. \"When it comes down to it, they say they don’t have any money left for mental health treatment in the communities, because they have what they call state-of-the-art mental health jails, and then nothing left for mental health in the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a dichotomy that's playing out in two Bay Area communities taking very different approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Continued below.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[realignmentMap]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Improving Conditions in Sonoma County Jail\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County Assistant Sheriff Randall Walker said that when the community's main jail opened in the early 1990s, there were only about a dozen inmates who needed treatment for a mental illness. Today the jail holds 440 inmates receiving some kind of psychiatric care, with 198 in special housing for people with more acute mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They may be able to fit,\" he said \"but you can’t do the proper programming because you can’t get people out [of their cells].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county is building a $44 million behavioral health unit scheduled to open in 2019 -- with $40 million in state grant funding. It will house up to 72 inmates and include enhanced space for them to get out of their cells and attend programs, like education or therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Socialization’s a big part of it,\" Walker said. \"That’s what the new facility is going to give us. It’s going to be the perfect space to do programming, socialization, all the things that are important to treatment.\"\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"iPoRDJFuCCTkuYmgMzg9rKXILWkC9ksf\"]\u003cbr>\nRachael McDavid heads Sonoma's chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see the jails doing what they can,” she said. “They’re trying to be considerate of mental health challenges that people are going through, which many times can contribute to them ending up in jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDavid said while that effort is admirable, communities need to do more to help people connect with organizations and entities that specialize in psychiatric care -- so they don’t end up in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have an episode, they have a crisis, because their mental health needs were not getting met,\" McDavid said, \"and so they get into bad situations. They make bad choices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Different Direction in San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Jails are just not treatment facilities,\" said San Francisco-based clinical social worker Kathleen Lacey, who specializes in treating patients with severe mental illness and violent criminal histories. \"No matter how nice you make it, it's still run by the Sheriff's Department, not by mental health professionals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That debate in San Francisco culminated in December, when a group of people opposed to San Francisco's plans to build a replacement jail similar to Sonoma's Behavioral Health Center shouted down a Board of Supervisors committee meeting on funding the project. Sheriff's deputies and firefighters removed three protesters after cutting through the chains that they'd attached to seats in the board's chambers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city scrapped its plans and relinquished an $80 million grant from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Francisco took a big bold move in saying, 'No, we’re not going to build a new jail,' \" Lacey said. \"It’s unfortunate that that money is only being offered to build jails; it’s not being offered to build treatment facilities, and that’s where we constantly come down the line. There is a lot of money to incarcerate people, and the money for the treatment just doesn’t show up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacey is part of a group that's pushing an alternative to jail construction. Along with public defender Jennifer Johnson, she co-authored a paper outlining a \"Behavioral Health Justice Center\" that would be a place for jails to release inmates who need psychiatric care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have this window of opportunity where there’s oddly bipartisan support for criminal justice and mental health reform,\" Johnson said. \"I feel this sense of urgency where we have to do something right or we’re going to be stuck with another 40 years of failed policy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is still deciding how to replace one of the city's aging jails, a decision expected later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County is breaking ground on its jail's new behavioral health unit soon, and expects it to open by 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of our California Counts collaboration with four California public media organizations to cover the 2016 election. The partners include \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/\">KPCC in Los Angeles\u003c/a>,\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/\">KQED in San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/\">Capital Public Radio in Sacramento\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>and\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/\">KPBS in San Diego\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"About $2.5 billion in state funding is going to constructing 10,000 new jail cells throughout the state. Many projects are focused on improving conditions for mentally ill inmates.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1475534156,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":1225},"headData":{"title":"Realignment 5 Years On: Counties Build Jails for Inmates With Mental Illness | KQED","description":"About $2.5 billion in state funding is going to constructing 10,000 new jail cells throughout the state. 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And that's just counting state grants, not what counties are spending in matching funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I find it alarming,\" San Francisco Deputy Public Defender Jennifer Johnson said. \"Of course counties are going to try to get the money. It's setting counties up to have more jails.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many sheriffs say they don't choose the inmates they receive, and a lot of jail renovation and construction projects are now geared toward improving conditions for an increasing number of mentally ill inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright pullquote\">'Jails are just not treatment facilities.'\u003ccite>San Francisco-based clinical social worker Kathleen Lacey\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Plus, crowding in local lockups has also become less of an issue since the implementation of a second colossal change in criminal justice policy enacted in late 2014 -- Proposition 47.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative reclassified lower-level property and drug felonies to misdemeanors, and jail populations dropped by 8,752 in four months, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_quick.asp?i=1210\" target=\"_blank\">research\u003c/a> by the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, counties are building nearly 10,000 new jail cells with state funding, according to data from the Board of State and Community Corrections. Some of the projects have shifted recently, to improve conditions for inmates with psychiatric issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have projects like in Alameda [County], where they are refurbishing a wing of one of the facilities into a mental health space,\" PPIC researcher Brandon Martin said. \"Ventura [County] is building a new building that will be mental health specific. So is Butte County. Sonoma’s doing the same thing. Humboldt is doing the same thing. There is definitely a big shift.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also a big fight over it, with some treatment providers and advocates arguing that the state is prioritizing in-custody psychiatric services over a community-based approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where they’re putting their money is all in jails,\" said Lizzie Buchen, a spokeswoman for the advocacy group Californians United for a Responsible Budget. \"When it comes down to it, they say they don’t have any money left for mental health treatment in the communities, because they have what they call state-of-the-art mental health jails, and then nothing left for mental health in the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a dichotomy that's playing out in two Bay Area communities taking very different approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Continued below.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[realignmentMap]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Improving Conditions in Sonoma County Jail\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County Assistant Sheriff Randall Walker said that when the community's main jail opened in the early 1990s, there were only about a dozen inmates who needed treatment for a mental illness. Today the jail holds 440 inmates receiving some kind of psychiatric care, with 198 in special housing for people with more acute mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They may be able to fit,\" he said \"but you can’t do the proper programming because you can’t get people out [of their cells].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county is building a $44 million behavioral health unit scheduled to open in 2019 -- with $40 million in state grant funding. It will house up to 72 inmates and include enhanced space for them to get out of their cells and attend programs, like education or therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Socialization’s a big part of it,\" Walker said. \"That’s what the new facility is going to give us. It’s going to be the perfect space to do programming, socialization, all the things that are important to treatment.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nRachael McDavid heads Sonoma's chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see the jails doing what they can,” she said. “They’re trying to be considerate of mental health challenges that people are going through, which many times can contribute to them ending up in jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDavid said while that effort is admirable, communities need to do more to help people connect with organizations and entities that specialize in psychiatric care -- so they don’t end up in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have an episode, they have a crisis, because their mental health needs were not getting met,\" McDavid said, \"and so they get into bad situations. They make bad choices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Different Direction in San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Jails are just not treatment facilities,\" said San Francisco-based clinical social worker Kathleen Lacey, who specializes in treating patients with severe mental illness and violent criminal histories. \"No matter how nice you make it, it's still run by the Sheriff's Department, not by mental health professionals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That debate in San Francisco culminated in December, when a group of people opposed to San Francisco's plans to build a replacement jail similar to Sonoma's Behavioral Health Center shouted down a Board of Supervisors committee meeting on funding the project. Sheriff's deputies and firefighters removed three protesters after cutting through the chains that they'd attached to seats in the board's chambers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city scrapped its plans and relinquished an $80 million grant from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Francisco took a big bold move in saying, 'No, we’re not going to build a new jail,' \" Lacey said. \"It’s unfortunate that that money is only being offered to build jails; it’s not being offered to build treatment facilities, and that’s where we constantly come down the line. There is a lot of money to incarcerate people, and the money for the treatment just doesn’t show up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacey is part of a group that's pushing an alternative to jail construction. Along with public defender Jennifer Johnson, she co-authored a paper outlining a \"Behavioral Health Justice Center\" that would be a place for jails to release inmates who need psychiatric care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have this window of opportunity where there’s oddly bipartisan support for criminal justice and mental health reform,\" Johnson said. \"I feel this sense of urgency where we have to do something right or we’re going to be stuck with another 40 years of failed policy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is still deciding how to replace one of the city's aging jails, a decision expected later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County is breaking ground on its jail's new behavioral health unit soon, and expects it to open by 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of our California Counts collaboration with four California public media organizations to cover the 2016 election. The partners include \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/\">KPCC in Los Angeles\u003c/a>,\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/\">KQED in San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/\">Capital Public Radio in Sacramento\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>and\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/\">KPBS in San Diego\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11107949/realignment-5-years-on-counties-build-jails-for-inmates-with-mental-illness","authors":["3206","6625","199"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_19217","news_19542","news_2687","news_17983","news_765","news_19993","news_4981","news_17286","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_11109833","label":"news_72"},"news_11108031":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11108031","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11108031","score":null,"sort":[1475132734000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"five-years-later-many-see-criminal-justice-realignment-as-success","title":"Five Years Later, Many See Criminal Justice Realignment as Success","publishDate":1475132734,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>When prisons chief Matt Cate was called in to meet Governor-elect Jerry Brown at the end of 2010, and was told about the governor's plan to reduce the state prison population, he was skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My first impression honestly was, ‘I understand why we need to do something big with the prison population and with the budget, but this seems too big to me,' \" Cate recalled recently, adding that he warned the governor that Brown would be blamed if someone got out of jail or prison and hurt someone. \"I remember meeting with the governor and saying ... it's a big risk politically. I wanted to make sure he understood it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, California was facing a huge budget deficit and was under a federal court order to cut its prison population by 30,000 inmates. Brown's plan, dubbed \"realignment\" because it sought to shift criminal justice responsibilities from the state to county governments, was the governor's attempt to comply with the court order without simply opening up the doors of state prisons and letting inmates walk free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"PLWLUlPqOJxHbMsZiIF8QHoIhrtbLyuh\"]\u003cbr>\nIt called for people convicted of many nonviolent crimes -- like drug dealers and shoplifters -- to start serving their sentences in county jails instead of state prisons. And it made county probation departments, instead of state parole agents, responsible for supervising many more offenders after they were released from prison or jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I remember talking to sheriffs, and the police chiefs, the district attorneys, even the probation chiefs -- everyone was very skeptical,\" said Cate. \"But once they all understood we had to do something, there were six months of heated negotiations about what that would be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While law enforcement groups came on board, many remained wary of realignment -- and Republican lawmakers and other law-and-order politicians warned that the massive policy change could lead to \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/politics/2011/04/13/gov-gets-cops-nod-to-move-cons-to-jails-gop-says-blood-on-streets/\" target=\"_blank\">\"blood in the streets.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half a decade later, most public officials say -- and research shows -- that those fears have not come to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/285259846\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most comprehensive study of realignment's impacts was released this spring, spearheaded by researchers at the Public Policy Institute of California. UC Irvine criminologist Charis Kubrin worked on what \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/releasing-low-level-offenders-did-not-unleash-a-crime-wave-in-california/2016/03/17/7d376adc-e4b5-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html?utm_term=.baaced3fa380\" target=\"_blank\">she calls the first \"systematic, scientific analysis\" of realignment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would say it's been a success ... realignment didn't unleash a crime wave, and not only that, it had no impact on violent crimes and very little impact on property crimes,\" she said. \"That tells me we can downsize our prisons, at least in California, without harming public safety. It's an important message for other states to listen to. Letting counties manage offenders locally, I think, is a great way to address the ballooning prison population without harming public safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But PPIC researchers said in a paper \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_916MLR.pdf\">released this week\u003c/a> that the change has not resulted in less spending on corrections overall -- it's just shifted down to the county level -- and that jails are now facing crowding problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under realignment, each county was given funds from the state and had the flexibility to implement realignment the way it wanted to. Probation departments took the lead, because they are responsible for overseeing offenders when they are released -- and all of them affected by realignment would be released. Kubrin said her research shows that the counties with the most success -- including the lowest recidivism rates and highest re-entry success rates -- were the counties that embraced a model of rehabilitation instead of simply relying on incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amador County Probation Chief Mark Bonini has led his department for nine years, and heads the statewide association that represents probation chiefs. He said there's still work to be done, but \"if the needle leans one way or another, I would say it leans toward success.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Probation departments, he said, have far more resources at their disposal now to do the important work of helping offenders get jobs, stay sober and improve their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we are more safe in that we are providing programming to a piece of the population ... that weren't getting those services before,\" he said, noting that the offenders impacted by realignment were coming back to communities before -- just with less support. \"We knew them already, we knew their families. ... I feel like we are doing better now than the state was.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the flexibility offered by the state in implementing such a complicated policy shift was key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the things that was, I think, a cornerstone of realignment and a real positive was that counties could set things up the way they wanted to,\" Bonini said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is such a fan. Ventura County District Attorney Greg Totten said he thinks realignment, when combined with another major policy change enacted by voters, has led to increased crime rates. He said the PPIC study looked at only a few years of crime rates and that in 2015, violent and property crimes increased significantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He blames not just realignment, but Proposition 47, which made drug possessions and many property crimes misdemeanors instead of felonies. It resulted in further drops in the prison population, and some emptying of county jail beds as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no question in my mind that the 10 percent increase in violent crimes we have experienced, the increased property crimes, rapes, robberies, murders -- that there's a nexus between that and realignment and Prop. 47,\" he said. \"I know the governor was under tremendous pressure, that he felt compelled to come up with something to relieve prison overcrowding, and he has accomplished that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Totten believes that compliance came at the expense of public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lenore Anderson helped write and push Proposition 47 as head of a group called Californians for Safety and Justice. She disagrees with Totten's assessment of what realignment and Proposition 47 have done -- but agrees it's hard to disentangle their impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fearmongering is how we got to a bloated and costly prison system in the first place,\" she said. \"So much of the so-called tough-on-crime era was shepherded in by a lot of hysteria and myth -- hysteria about crime and myth about the best way to stop it. So it came as no surprise to me that realignment faced pushback, and pushback that sounded pretty familiar.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson said realignment was the start of a trend toward a more \"balanced\" approach to criminal justice that she believes will ultimately make California safer by helping people deal with the root causes of crime, not just punishing them for their actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cate is now head of the California State Association of Counties, representing county governments in the Capitol. He said Brown's big gamble resulted in a big success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It took a lot of guts,\" he said. \"And it paid off for him eventually.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of our California Counts collaboration with four California public media organizations to cover the 2016 election. The partners include\u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/\">KPCC in Los Angeles\u003c/a>,\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/\">KQED in San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/\">Capital Public Radio in Sacramento\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>and\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/\">KPBS in San Diego\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Realignment moved people convicted of many nonviolent crimes -- like drug dealers and shoplifters -- to county jails.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1475172230,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":1225},"headData":{"title":"Five Years Later, Many See Criminal Justice Realignment as Success | KQED","description":"Realignment moved people convicted of many nonviolent crimes -- like drug dealers and shoplifters -- to county jails.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11108031 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11108031","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/29/five-years-later-many-see-criminal-justice-realignment-as-success/","disqusTitle":"Five Years Later, Many See Criminal Justice Realignment as Success","nprStoryId":"495879369","path":"/news/11108031/five-years-later-many-see-criminal-justice-realignment-as-success","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When prisons chief Matt Cate was called in to meet Governor-elect Jerry Brown at the end of 2010, and was told about the governor's plan to reduce the state prison population, he was skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My first impression honestly was, ‘I understand why we need to do something big with the prison population and with the budget, but this seems too big to me,' \" Cate recalled recently, adding that he warned the governor that Brown would be blamed if someone got out of jail or prison and hurt someone. \"I remember meeting with the governor and saying ... it's a big risk politically. I wanted to make sure he understood it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, California was facing a huge budget deficit and was under a federal court order to cut its prison population by 30,000 inmates. Brown's plan, dubbed \"realignment\" because it sought to shift criminal justice responsibilities from the state to county governments, was the governor's attempt to comply with the court order without simply opening up the doors of state prisons and letting inmates walk free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nIt called for people convicted of many nonviolent crimes -- like drug dealers and shoplifters -- to start serving their sentences in county jails instead of state prisons. And it made county probation departments, instead of state parole agents, responsible for supervising many more offenders after they were released from prison or jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I remember talking to sheriffs, and the police chiefs, the district attorneys, even the probation chiefs -- everyone was very skeptical,\" said Cate. \"But once they all understood we had to do something, there were six months of heated negotiations about what that would be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While law enforcement groups came on board, many remained wary of realignment -- and Republican lawmakers and other law-and-order politicians warned that the massive policy change could lead to \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/politics/2011/04/13/gov-gets-cops-nod-to-move-cons-to-jails-gop-says-blood-on-streets/\" target=\"_blank\">\"blood in the streets.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half a decade later, most public officials say -- and research shows -- that those fears have not come to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/285259846&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/285259846'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most comprehensive study of realignment's impacts was released this spring, spearheaded by researchers at the Public Policy Institute of California. UC Irvine criminologist Charis Kubrin worked on what \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/releasing-low-level-offenders-did-not-unleash-a-crime-wave-in-california/2016/03/17/7d376adc-e4b5-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html?utm_term=.baaced3fa380\" target=\"_blank\">she calls the first \"systematic, scientific analysis\" of realignment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would say it's been a success ... realignment didn't unleash a crime wave, and not only that, it had no impact on violent crimes and very little impact on property crimes,\" she said. \"That tells me we can downsize our prisons, at least in California, without harming public safety. It's an important message for other states to listen to. Letting counties manage offenders locally, I think, is a great way to address the ballooning prison population without harming public safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But PPIC researchers said in a paper \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_916MLR.pdf\">released this week\u003c/a> that the change has not resulted in less spending on corrections overall -- it's just shifted down to the county level -- and that jails are now facing crowding problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under realignment, each county was given funds from the state and had the flexibility to implement realignment the way it wanted to. Probation departments took the lead, because they are responsible for overseeing offenders when they are released -- and all of them affected by realignment would be released. Kubrin said her research shows that the counties with the most success -- including the lowest recidivism rates and highest re-entry success rates -- were the counties that embraced a model of rehabilitation instead of simply relying on incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amador County Probation Chief Mark Bonini has led his department for nine years, and heads the statewide association that represents probation chiefs. He said there's still work to be done, but \"if the needle leans one way or another, I would say it leans toward success.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Probation departments, he said, have far more resources at their disposal now to do the important work of helping offenders get jobs, stay sober and improve their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we are more safe in that we are providing programming to a piece of the population ... that weren't getting those services before,\" he said, noting that the offenders impacted by realignment were coming back to communities before -- just with less support. \"We knew them already, we knew their families. ... I feel like we are doing better now than the state was.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the flexibility offered by the state in implementing such a complicated policy shift was key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the things that was, I think, a cornerstone of realignment and a real positive was that counties could set things up the way they wanted to,\" Bonini said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is such a fan. Ventura County District Attorney Greg Totten said he thinks realignment, when combined with another major policy change enacted by voters, has led to increased crime rates. He said the PPIC study looked at only a few years of crime rates and that in 2015, violent and property crimes increased significantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He blames not just realignment, but Proposition 47, which made drug possessions and many property crimes misdemeanors instead of felonies. It resulted in further drops in the prison population, and some emptying of county jail beds as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no question in my mind that the 10 percent increase in violent crimes we have experienced, the increased property crimes, rapes, robberies, murders -- that there's a nexus between that and realignment and Prop. 47,\" he said. \"I know the governor was under tremendous pressure, that he felt compelled to come up with something to relieve prison overcrowding, and he has accomplished that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Totten believes that compliance came at the expense of public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lenore Anderson helped write and push Proposition 47 as head of a group called Californians for Safety and Justice. She disagrees with Totten's assessment of what realignment and Proposition 47 have done -- but agrees it's hard to disentangle their impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fearmongering is how we got to a bloated and costly prison system in the first place,\" she said. \"So much of the so-called tough-on-crime era was shepherded in by a lot of hysteria and myth -- hysteria about crime and myth about the best way to stop it. So it came as no surprise to me that realignment faced pushback, and pushback that sounded pretty familiar.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson said realignment was the start of a trend toward a more \"balanced\" approach to criminal justice that she believes will ultimately make California safer by helping people deal with the root causes of crime, not just punishing them for their actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cate is now head of the California State Association of Counties, representing county governments in the Capitol. He said Brown's big gamble resulted in a big success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It took a lot of guts,\" he said. \"And it paid off for him eventually.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of our California Counts collaboration with four California public media organizations to cover the 2016 election. The partners include\u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/\">KPCC in Los Angeles\u003c/a>,\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/\">KQED in San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/\">Capital Public Radio in Sacramento\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>and\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/\">KPBS in San Diego\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11108031/five-years-later-many-see-criminal-justice-realignment-as-success","authors":["3239"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_17725","news_765","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11108130","label":"news_72"},"news_10890563":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10890563","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10890563","score":null,"sort":[1457649383000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"new-center-in-richmond-aims-to-help-people-coming-home-from-prison","title":"New Center in Richmond Aims to Help People Coming Home From Prison","publishDate":1457649383,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://richmondpulse.org/2014/09/22/richmond-city-council-candidate-dameion-king/\">Dameion King's\u003c/a> office in downtown Richmond looks like a cross between a Starbucks and a tech startup -- with exposed brick walls, mobile workstations, laptop computers and brightly painted meeting rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then if you go upstairs, this is my favorite part up here,” King said, as he headed up a narrow staircase to a loft area and meeting space. “I actually could live here. All I need is a rollout bed and an Internet connection. So this is the area where we plan to have restorative justice circles and AA and NA meetings.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/251048184\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifteen years ago King was behind bars, serving a three-year sentence for firearm and drug possession. Now he's a coach at the new \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/richmond/ci_28964762/richmond-new-re-entry-center-unveiled-ex-cons\">Richmond Reentry Success Center\u003c/a>. The center is designed to help people recently released from prison or jail get back on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to King, the space itself is designed to make people who come looking for help feel more empowered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10890565\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10890565 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_4814-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The new Reentry Success Center in Richmond, Ca. offers mobile workstations and an open design to give formerly incarcerated members a feeling of stakeholdership. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_4814-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_4814-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_4814-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_4814-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_4814-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new Reentry Success Center in Richmond offers mobile workstations and an open design to give formerly incarcerated members a feeling of stakeholdership. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I know that when I came home, there was nothing like this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After two years of planning, the Reentry Success Center \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2015/10/21/richmonds-reentery-success-center-to-open-next-week/\">opened its doors\u003c/a> in October -- a collaboration among Contra Costa County civic leaders, law enforcement officials and nonprofits. (Since 2011, when the state began reducing its inmate population as part of a larger \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/realignment/\">prison realignment\u003c/a> program, Contra Costa has invested about $10 million in community-based re-entry services and $400,000 in the center itself.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa Supervisor John Gioia said the center is key to the county’s plan to help keep people out of jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can show this center works and these programs work, it’ll hopefully help build the case for investing more money in this type of work,” he said. “It makes quality of life better for people who are released from jail and return, and it makes our community safer. So it’s a win-win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicholas Alexander, the center's director, said he hopes it can offer more effective support to formerly incarcerated people and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we look back at re-entry work over the last decade, it’s really been unsuccessful,\" he said. “I mean over half of people tend to go back into incarceration. So right now the bar is pretty low, unfortunately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10890566\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10890566 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_4815-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Nicholas Alexander, Reentry Success Center Director, helps coordinate service providers for the people who come looking for help.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_4815-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_4815-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_4815-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_4815-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_4815-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicholas Alexander, Reentry Success Center director, helps coordinate service providers for the people who come looking for help. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said part of why re-entry work has failed is that formerly incarcerated people can be denied employment and housing based on their criminal history. Alexander said the center's holistic approach is designed to help its clients navigate those legal barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the center, Alexander said, people coming out of jail or prison have access to a wide variety of services all in one place, from legal help to employment and addiction counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a whole we’re working more collaboratively, so less people are going to slip through the cracks,\" Alexander said\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenneth McDowell is one of those people the center is trying to help. He spent five months behind bars on a felony assault charge. When he got out of jail about a year ago, McDowell had lost his housing and his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just want to close up and go into a box and hide, and cry pretty much, but life won’t let you do that,” he said. “You have to gather your thoughts and your feelings, and you have to ball them up. 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All I need is a rollout bed and an Internet connection. So this is the area where we plan to have restorative justice circles and AA and NA meetings.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/251048184&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/251048184'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifteen years ago King was behind bars, serving a three-year sentence for firearm and drug possession. Now he's a coach at the new \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/richmond/ci_28964762/richmond-new-re-entry-center-unveiled-ex-cons\">Richmond Reentry Success Center\u003c/a>. The center is designed to help people recently released from prison or jail get back on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to King, the space itself is designed to make people who come looking for help feel more empowered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10890565\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10890565 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_4814-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The new Reentry Success Center in Richmond, Ca. offers mobile workstations and an open design to give formerly incarcerated members a feeling of stakeholdership. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_4814-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_4814-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_4814-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_4814-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_4814-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new Reentry Success Center in Richmond offers mobile workstations and an open design to give formerly incarcerated members a feeling of stakeholdership. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I know that when I came home, there was nothing like this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After two years of planning, the Reentry Success Center \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2015/10/21/richmonds-reentery-success-center-to-open-next-week/\">opened its doors\u003c/a> in October -- a collaboration among Contra Costa County civic leaders, law enforcement officials and nonprofits. (Since 2011, when the state began reducing its inmate population as part of a larger \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/realignment/\">prison realignment\u003c/a> program, Contra Costa has invested about $10 million in community-based re-entry services and $400,000 in the center itself.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa Supervisor John Gioia said the center is key to the county’s plan to help keep people out of jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can show this center works and these programs work, it’ll hopefully help build the case for investing more money in this type of work,” he said. “It makes quality of life better for people who are released from jail and return, and it makes our community safer. So it’s a win-win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicholas Alexander, the center's director, said he hopes it can offer more effective support to formerly incarcerated people and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we look back at re-entry work over the last decade, it’s really been unsuccessful,\" he said. “I mean over half of people tend to go back into incarceration. So right now the bar is pretty low, unfortunately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10890566\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10890566 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_4815-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Nicholas Alexander, Reentry Success Center Director, helps coordinate service providers for the people who come looking for help.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_4815-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_4815-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_4815-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_4815-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_4815-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicholas Alexander, Reentry Success Center director, helps coordinate service providers for the people who come looking for help. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said part of why re-entry work has failed is that formerly incarcerated people can be denied employment and housing based on their criminal history. Alexander said the center's holistic approach is designed to help its clients navigate those legal barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the center, Alexander said, people coming out of jail or prison have access to a wide variety of services all in one place, from legal help to employment and addiction counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a whole we’re working more collaboratively, so less people are going to slip through the cracks,\" Alexander said\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenneth McDowell is one of those people the center is trying to help. He spent five months behind bars on a felony assault charge. When he got out of jail about a year ago, McDowell had lost his housing and his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just want to close up and go into a box and hide, and cry pretty much, but life won’t let you do that,” he said. “You have to gather your thoughts and your feelings, and you have to ball them up. 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