A state assembly bill intended to alleviate California’s fiscal burden of housing prison inmates has created a new, sub-class of criminal that has the potential to overwhelm law enforcement agencies if the law is implemented without promise of proper funding.
During an April 5 panel held at Mountain View Middle School in Beaumont, several participants discussed the implications of Assembly Bill 109, which essentially stipulated the transfer of criminals from state prison back to their home communities, starting back in October 2011. County jails are being forced to make room for more inmates due to the fact that state prisons will no longer be accepting inmates for misdemeanors and “lesser” offenses — by releasing some of their own inmates...
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