What is realignment AB 109 in California?

Realignment AB 109 transfers responsibility for supervising certain kinds of felony offenders and state prison parolees from state prisons and state parole agents to county jails and probation officers. Realignment is a process of significant change in the California criminal justice system. The belief is that low-level offenders can be best rehabilitated through local, community-oriented and evidence-based practices instead of state prison. An offender that gets a BIG sentencing break, and decides to run, does not have reverence for the justice system is going to pay a steep penalty for not abiding by the leniency...