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Posts Tagged ‘realignment’

Alameda County supervisors vote to boost funds for post-incarceration services

By Alsanosi Adam | March 26, 2015 | 1
Darris Young speaking to the board of supervisors in regards to the public safety funds. Photo by: Alsanosi Adam

For several months, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights has urged the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to allocate 50 percent of their public safety funds to community organizations that assist people who have recently been released from incarceration. Their campaign is called “Jobs Not Jails.” Their effort paid off Tuesday, when the board…

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Alameda County prepares for influx of inmates as state reduces prison population

By Nicole Jones | June 6, 2011 | 1
Mule Creek State Prison, 2006 (Photo Courtesy of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)

Alameda County’s incarceration system may struggle to support the coming influx of inmates this July as California shifts the supervision of its prisoners from state to local facilities in order to meet a court-ordered prison population reduction strategy. In May, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that overcrowding in California’s 33 prisons has caused conditions that…

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