Petersilia, Joan; Snyder, Jessica Greenlick - In: California Journal of Politics and Policy 5 (2013) 2, pp. 266-306
Abstract California’s Criminal Justice Realignment Act passed in 2011 shifted vast discretion for managing lower-level offenders from the state to the county, allocated over $2 billion in the first 2 years for local programs, and altered sentences for more than 100,000 offenders. Despite the...