County Jail Construction Booms with Realignment Money

Realignment is a sweeping state initiative that was meant to achieve two goals. The first was to reduce the overcrowding at state prison by turning over the responsibility of non-violent offenders to local counties. The second was to invest some of the money used to jail people and put it toward social services that might end the cycle of incarceration. Marshall Project reporter Anat Rubin says counties have taken very different approaches to how they spend the realignment funds.