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One Year In, Is California's Plan to Fix Its Prisons Working?

KQED News Staff

Aug 22, 2012 at

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Governor Jerry Brown's plan to overhaul the state's criminal justice system, known as realignment, is redirecting thousands of low-level offenders from state prisons to county jails. Can this prison reform effort succeed where others have failed?

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