Analysis: Realignment and Yolo County
The story of realignment figures to be a complex story. From the start we believed that, without changes to both charging and sentencing policies, sustainable declines in prison population may be impossible to achieve. The data that is now emerging may bear that out.
In a report from the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, written by Senior Research Fellow Mike Males in mid-August, the latest data analysis shows “that during the first 9 months of realignment there has been a 39% overall reduction in new prison admissions as of June 30, 2012, and a drop of 26,480 in the prison population as of August 8, 2012, compared to October 1, 2011.”