In Friday's editorial, "Realignment fails early test," a connection was made between the shooting death of a former California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) inmate during the commission of a home invasion and the 2011 public safety realignment.
Before realignment, offenders who had served their full sentence were released by CDCR with more than 95 percent returning to the county of their last legal residence while being supervised by state parole. Under realignment all offenders continue to serve their full sentence, but if their current commitment was for a nonserious, nonviolent, nonsexual offense, the offender now reports to the county's probation department for post-release community supervision...
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