Prison Realignment: One Year Later




KQED's Forum show

Summary: It has been almost a year since California began overhauling its overcrowded prison system. The goal: to shed more than 30,000 inmates from in-state prisons and cut the prison budget. But critics in law enforcement and elsewhere fear the reforms may lead to higher crime. As part of the KQED News series "Prison Break," we'll discuss the realignment program. How has it fared so far?