California’s AB 109 and How Surety Bail Helps Relieve Jail Overcrowding
Under California’s new “realignment” plan (AB 109), responsibility for more than 30,000 state prison inmates is being transferred to the local level where the responsibility for low-risk inmates shifts from the state of California to the counties. The Supreme Court found that overcrowding in jails is a violation of the Constitutional rights of prisoners. AB […]
