ACLU is critical of state prison realignment

Sending prisoners and funding to county authorities risks continuing the state's over-dependence on incarceration, the group contends. But the head of the state sheriffs association says local facilities should be upgraded.

California risks repeating past mistakes as it doles out hundreds of millions of dollars to help county jails house inmates who once would have ended up in state prisons, according to an American Civil Liberties Union report released Wednesday.

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