Fewer Prisons, Less Crime: California’s Realignment Experiment And The Case Against Fear-Driven Policy
Fewer Prisons, Less Crime: California’s Realignment Experiment And The Case Against Fear-Driven Policy – A Legislative Analyst’s Office review finds that shifting lower-level offenders from state prisons to counties produced a modest rise in property crime and no effect on violent crime, as the state’s crime rate stands 27 percent below 2011