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CA Prison Transfers Started Monday
Last Monday, October 3rd, CDCR began transferring California state prisoners to California county jails across the state. Prisoners who were transferred, were sent to county jail facilities local to their home towns. Upon release, they will be released to the custody of local county probation officers. This is a far cry from being released to CA state parole officers.
CA Prison Realignment
These transfers are part of a plan put into place by California State Governor Jerry Brown, in an effort to reduce the CA prison population by 11,000 inmates by January. This plan is just the beginning of a complete plan to “realign the criminal justice system”, as ordered by the US Supreme Court last spring. This phase of the realignment only refers to the following California state prisoners:
- Considered low-level prisoners
- Convicted of non-violent offenses
- Convicted of non-sex-related offenses
- No history of spousal abuse convictions
- No convictions of any type of crimes against children
CA Prison Rumors
My fiance tells me that there are plans being made to turn some prisons into California pre-release prisons. The purpose of pre-release prisons is to help prisoners that are soon to be released transition back into society. According to him, prisoners from Southern California will be transferred to Lancaster and Chino. I completely forget where those from Northern California will be going.
Realignment - Phase 2
I guess this would be considered the 2nd phase of the plan. Prisoners sent to pre-release prisons will spend a certain amount of time there, as a low-level offenders. These are the prisons they will be released from when their time comes.
Coming Soon
I cannot wait until one of these phases finally trickles over into our lives. My Boo fits the criteria for the low-level early release programs. At some point, I expect to get a call from him saying that he has been transferred to Lancaster, which is where I'm moving next month, or Chino, less than 40 miles from Los Angeles.
In the meantime, every single morning, I check the CDCR Inmate Locator to make sure he is still in Avenal State Prison. The day I see anything different, will be one of the happiest days of my life. It will mean that he is official IN the CA Prison Early Release Program, and he will be coming home soon.
More Information
Want more details on this phase of the CA Prison Realignment Reform. Read California Prisoners Started Moving to County Jails.
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2 comments:
Congrat and kudos to you for sticking with your loved one. Former inmates need quite a bit of support once they are outside and with spouse and family support they have a better chance at staying straight.
PeteMax
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hello, I just happened to come across this post about prison inmates being transferred to local jails. Is this a way to cut down the population in prisons? Do they have any funding to support this type of project? I am hoping all would go well with this.
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