November 29, 2012
Jail House Talk: Chief Probation Officer Manuel Real (foreground) and Nancy Hatton, the county Probation Department’s adult division director, discuss the county’s efforts to keep jail overcrowding to a minimum.
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Doing Time
Realignment hasn’t led to massive jail overcrowding; crime impacts unclear.
The county jail has managed to avert serious overcrowding by allowing some low-level arrestees off without bail, sending some offenders to substance abuse programs, and implementing other population reduction measures. Last October, the statewide prison ...
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