From the County perspective, these people will be released to their original communities without parole requirements. Our jail is full to capacity all the time with a six month waiting period for lessor crimes even with a program for electronic incarceration for lessor crimes. (We are also experienceing runaway and extreme costs for medical treatment of prisoners - who have a large substance abuse and mental illness problem.) These returned folks will re-offend. The State is upping its requirement for the Counties to retain prisoners with sentences under a certain time period. (Used to be a year.) This sticks the Counties with the bad apples.
At the same time, we are poised to lay off folks on the County level. (We have already frozen jobs through attrition.) We have no money to build a new jail, (even with state help,) as we can’t afford to staff it. Our jail and courthouse are also in an historic didtrict and we can’t expand.
The judges are not solving the problem. They are creating an even worse disaster. Right now our non murder violent crimes are at a rate per 1000 people five times that of Los Angeles. California is creating conditions in rural areas that rival third world countries.
What county are you in?