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SACRAMENTO-- In 2011, the inmate population in California's state prisons was significantly reduced making it possible for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to better help California prisoners to prepare for re-entry into the public.
In a recent federal mandate by the U.S. Supreme Court, California was forced to reduce the number of prisoners in its state facilities by transferring lower-level offenders to county jails and more physical space was made. Now large rooms originally meant for conducting classes, group therapy and family counseling are no longer overrun with hundreds of triple-bunked inmates.
According to California's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, there's a misconception that it's federally mandated prison reduction program resulted in the early release of 20,000 criminals. The Department said that no prisoner that had not fully served their sentence was released early. What county jails did to make room for an influx of state inmates, was release a number of pre-trial offenders, low level offenders that could not afford bail.
