Tag: Prisoner Realignment
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Tweet City Heights: Large-Scale Public Market to Open in San Diego
By Megan Burks Leases Set, Construction Started on San Diego’s Answer to Pike Place At press time, 961 people had signed on to help Catt White and Dale Steele bring a large-scale public market to San Diego. The pair posted the project on Kickstarter, an online platform used for crowdfunding, Aug. 8 and are nearing…
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Police Chief: Crime Will Rise
Crime is rising and will continue to climb unless the Police Department gets more funding, San Diego’s top cop warned a City Council committee Wednesday. The comments came as the committee considered a $66 million plan to rebuild the Police Department over the next five years. Police want to hire more cops and civilian staff, buy new…
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Is Prison Realignment Working?
Above: Margaret Dooley-Sammuli from the ACLU and Chief Mack Jenkins, head of the San Diego County Probation Department, speak to Evening Edition about the realignment program. By Beth Accomando, Adriana Alcaraz and Erik Anderson It’s been six months since California started shifting low-level prison inmates and funding from state to county jails, and a new report from the…
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City Heights Sees Few Ex-Offenders Under Realignment
By Megan Burks The San Diego County Probation Department is dealing with more former prison inmates than it expected to under realignment, the state’s effort to limit prison overcrowding by shifting some offenders into local custody. Under the new strategy, parolees who would have been supervised by the state are being watched by county probation…
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Tweet City Heights: Fast-Filling Jails and a Tax-Initiative Smorgasbord
By Megan Burks State Could Miss Realignment Deadline Despite Fast-Filling County Jails KPBS reported this week county jails are filling up faster than expected under AB 109 and could reach capacity by October. A planned jail expansion won’t be completed for another two years, so the Sheriff hopes to rely on alternative custody programs such…