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"content": "\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/173720596\" params=\"color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not the focus of this year's campaign for governor, but under Jerry Brown the state’s approach to criminal justice has gone in a dramatically new direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Underlying it all: too many inmates and too few cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger warned the state Legislature that the prisons were powder kegs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our prisons are in crisis,\" the governor said. \"We have inherited a problem that has been put off year after year after year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwarzenegger \u003cem>did\u003c/em> take steps to reduce the inmate population, but not nearly enough to satisfy the federal courts. Finally, in 2011, with the state's back to the wall, the Legislature passed the most fundamental reform of California's criminal justice system in more than a generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"23e25102c11f438afbfaccb7c7702fb5\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/handouts/localgov/2011/Overview_Realignment_Proposal_012611.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">AB109\u003c/a>, known as \"realignment,\" transferred responsibility for tens of thousands of low-level criminals from state prisons to county jails and probation officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These perpetrators of non-serious, non-sexual, nonviolent crimes would now become the responsibility of local law enforcement officials, rather than the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Probation [departments] were not ready,\" says U.C. Berkeley criminologist Barry Krisberg, who for years has advised the Legislature on criminal justice matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krisberg says California adopted realignment so fast that counties struggled to keep their heads above water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, if you had done this logically, you would’ve announced to everyone, 'We’re gonna do it.' You probably would have spent a year or so planning it out, training and making it happen,\" Krisberg says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But that’s not how realignment happened. It just \u003cem>happened\u003c/em>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five months after Brown signed AB109 (and a companion bill, AB117), realignment took effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That process -- or lack thereof -- rankles critics of realignment, including Michael Rushford of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The 425-page bill, it never saw a committee hearing, it was never brought to the floor, it passed both houses and went to the governor's desk without debate, kinda in the backroom somewhere,\" complains Rushford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/09/29/realignment-is-here-counties-to-receive-non-violent-criminals-from-state\" target=\"_blank\">relatively quick implementation of realignment\u003c/a> left local law enforcement officials scrambling. The biggest immediate impact was felt in county jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch3>Prison Break: California Rethinks Criminal Justice\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa1iXtDbo64&w=640&h=385]\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>KQED reporter Michael Montgomery visited Fresno in the summer of 2012 for a \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/bayarea/prisons/\" target=\"_blank\">television story\u003c/a> produced for the Center for Investigative Reporting. Montgomery met inmates in the county jail who had earlier served time in state prisons. They said conditions in the county jail were far worse than state prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no programs here,\" one inmate shouted from his cell. \"There's no schools, there's no education. There's no jobs. I mean, this yard is once a week. Every Monday for an hour. That's it. No sunlight, no fresh air.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several said they'd rather go back to state prison than stay in the jail. Conditions were that bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Fresno has one of the oldest county jails in California. Like state prisons, it was packed with inmates when realignment took effect in October 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Sheriff Margaret Mims called realignment a triple whammy. \"We were hit so hard, so fast, with many more inmates,\" Mims said. \"We were all scrambling to figure out how we’re going to deal with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A $2 Billion Deal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first two years of realignment, the state sent $2 billion to counties. Each could use the money from the new policy however it saw fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More conservative counties hired more probation officers and sheriff's deputies. Counties like San Francisco and Alameda put their emphasis on rehabilitation programs and reducing incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overarching goal of realignment was to reduce the churn of parole violators in and out of state prisons, and to let counties manage low-level offenders rather than sending them to state prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Brown's perspective, realignment was a huge success. And he said so early last year. \"There’s no question that there were big problems in California prisons: overcrowding, health care, lack of mental health care,\" he told reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"County jails are designed to hold people for a year, not five years.\"\u003ccite>U.C. Berkeley criminologist Barry Krisberg\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>After decades of work, the job was now complete. But for counties, the job was just beginning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The first burst of the effects of realignment were almost overwhelming,\" said Mims, sitting in her office this week reflecting back on the first three years of realignment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve been involved in law enforcement for 32 years. We have never had a readjustment or realignment, or reorganization, or however you want to phrase it, as big as this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mims is pleased that Fresno is using $80 million from the state to build a brand-new jail. They'll need it. Most county jails were designed to house inmates for relatively short periods of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now one prisoner in Fresno is serving an 18-year sentence. Shortly after realignment began, one offender in Los Angeles was sentenced to nearly 50 years in the county jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley's Krisberg acknowledges that's one of the problems the state is going to have to tackle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So suddenly you had people getting very long sentences under existing sentencing laws, but now to county jails,\" Krisberg notes. \"And county jails are designed to hold people for a year, not five years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let alone 18 or 48. With these longer sentences come higher health care costs for inmates -- a burden shifted from the state to local government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liberal counties like San Francisco quickly embraced realignment. Resistance was strongest inland, in places like Kings County, where Sheriff Dave Robinson was an outspoken critic. And now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m still a 'lock ‘em up and throw away the key' kind of guy for certain things, like the sex offenses, the gang offenses, etc.,\" said Robinson this week. \"But on some of these realigned crimes, I do think we have some opportunities to make a difference in people’s lives and turn them around so they don’t become career criminals. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before realignment, state parole agents tracked ex-offenders who left prison. Under realignment, that falls to counties. To make it work, law enforcement agencies have to coordinate with each other and with nonprofits, providing services like substance abuse and job training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Historically, we all work really well in silos. You know, the DA does its thing, the public defender too,\" says Neola Crosby, who oversees re-entry services for the Alameda County Probation Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And this has kind of forced us all to work together more collaboratively, and with our community partners.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The state inmate population dropped by more than 25,000, but that leaves nearly 3,000 more inmates than the federal courts will allow.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Even critics of realignment agree that one indisputable benefit is cooperation and improved coordination by local law enforcement and nonprofit organizations that provide services like job training and substance abuse treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But three years into it, realignment has not solved the state's prison overcrowding problems, as Brown promised it would.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state inmate population dropped by more than 25,000, but that leaves nearly 3,000 more inmates than the federal courts will allow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it hasn't led to the rising crime rates that critics feared either. Property crimes did go up at first, but are back down again. And violent crime is still at historically low levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, that's little consolation to Rushford, of the conservative Criminal Justice Legal Foundation. \"It’s gonna be when every neighborhood has a dead body,\" he warns. \"Then all of a sudden it’s gonna become an issue. So, it’s OK to say everything is fine, we can just let that happen. I know what’s \u003cem>going\u003c/em> to happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, it seems that local officials have largely adapted to realignment. And early critics like Mims say the law has been tweaked so rural counties like hers get more state money. Still, she worries that extra money will eventually go away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My fear is -- what has happened historically is -- five or 10 years down the road people forget this was a state issue, not a county issue,\" Mims says. \"And then we say, 'OK county, this is your deal, why aren’t you paying for it?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As this experiment known as realignment plays out in California's 58 counties, policymakers will be looking to see what works best to reduce incarceration while also maintaining public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will it reduce recidivism as promised? Will counties be able to afford the rising cost of health care for inmates spending longer sentences in their jails? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwarzenegger \u003cem>did\u003c/em> take steps to reduce the inmate population, but not nearly enough to satisfy the federal courts. Finally, in 2011, with the state's back to the wall, the Legislature passed the most fundamental reform of California's criminal justice system in more than a generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/handouts/localgov/2011/Overview_Realignment_Proposal_012611.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">AB109\u003c/a>, known as \"realignment,\" transferred responsibility for tens of thousands of low-level criminals from state prisons to county jails and probation officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These perpetrators of non-serious, non-sexual, nonviolent crimes would now become the responsibility of local law enforcement officials, rather than the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Probation [departments] were not ready,\" says U.C. 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The biggest immediate impact was felt in county jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch3>Prison Break: California Rethinks Criminal Justice\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Sa1iXtDbo64'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Sa1iXtDbo64'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>KQED reporter Michael Montgomery visited Fresno in the summer of 2012 for a \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/bayarea/prisons/\" target=\"_blank\">television story\u003c/a> produced for the Center for Investigative Reporting. Montgomery met inmates in the county jail who had earlier served time in state prisons. They said conditions in the county jail were far worse than state prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no programs here,\" one inmate shouted from his cell. \"There's no schools, there's no education. There's no jobs. I mean, this yard is once a week. Every Monday for an hour. That's it. No sunlight, no fresh air.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several said they'd rather go back to state prison than stay in the jail. Conditions were that bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Fresno has one of the oldest county jails in California. Like state prisons, it was packed with inmates when realignment took effect in October 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Sheriff Margaret Mims called realignment a triple whammy. \"We were hit so hard, so fast, with many more inmates,\" Mims said. \"We were all scrambling to figure out how we’re going to deal with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A $2 Billion Deal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first two years of realignment, the state sent $2 billion to counties. Each could use the money from the new policy however it saw fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More conservative counties hired more probation officers and sheriff's deputies. Counties like San Francisco and Alameda put their emphasis on rehabilitation programs and reducing incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overarching goal of realignment was to reduce the churn of parole violators in and out of state prisons, and to let counties manage low-level offenders rather than sending them to state prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Brown's perspective, realignment was a huge success. And he said so early last year. \"There’s no question that there were big problems in California prisons: overcrowding, health care, lack of mental health care,\" he told reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"County jails are designed to hold people for a year, not five years.\"\u003ccite>U.C. Berkeley criminologist Barry Krisberg\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>After decades of work, the job was now complete. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134867\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS10148_WP_20140424_006.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-134867\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS10148_WP_20140424_006-640x359.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Jerry Brown interviewed by KQED senior politics editor John Myers\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Jerry Brown is interviewed by KQED senior politics editor John Myers. (Monica Lam/KQED) \u003ccite>(Monica Lam, KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown says he believes that some degree of additional affirmative action is needed in admissions to California colleges and universities, but that there are both substantial legal and political hurdles to making it happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we have to strive in whatever way we can, under existing law, to have a fair system of admissions,\" said Brown in a wide-ranging interview with KQED News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor's comments come both on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding a ban on affirmative action in Michigan, and debate inside the California Legislature over a proposed ballot measure to reinstate the state’s affirmative action law — nixed by voters with \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Affirmative_Action,_Proposition_209_(1996)\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 209\u003c/a> in 1996.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown expressed doubt on the effectiveness of new laws to curb political corruption, in the wake of a trio of scandals that have rocked the state Capitol over the last few months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he defended his administration's approach to fracking, a hotly debated method of oil drilling that uses high-pressure water to loosen underground oil deposits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor also touched on the debate over a new state budget reserve fund, the debate over entrenched poverty in California, and his own style of politics and governing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Easy Path for Expanded Affirmative Action\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he believes \u003ca href=\"http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/04/opinion-analysis-affirmative-action-up-to-the-voters/\" target=\"_blank\">the April 22 ruling on the Michigan case\u003c/a> by the nation’s highest court \"shut the door\" on any kind of new or expanded racial preferences — unless those rules are enacted by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not at all clear that if you put it on the ballot, that it could be passed,\" he said in the interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown has long defended affirmative action policies, including during his time as attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do think that because of where we are in the gaps between the races, I think we need some degree of affirmative action,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor acknowledged the deep divisions that surfaced during \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/blogs/multiamerican/2014/03/17/16109/affirmative-action-bill-sca-5-dead-for-the-year/\" target=\"_blank\">the brief legislative debate over a proposed constitutional amendment to reinstate affirmative action\u003c/a> in higher education and contracting in California. But he characterized any effort to bridge that gap as \"chancy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's never going to be perfect,\" said Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mojTnLUGo54&w=450&h=253]\u003c/div>\n\u003caside class=\"left long autowidth\">\n\u003ch3>Watch More of Gov. Brown's Interview\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNPXbcY1uhw&w=300&h=169]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Regulation and Taxes\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3qAgQHKC0I&w=300&h=169]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Keystone XL Pipeline\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'If It's Done Too Directly, Then It's Called Bribery'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor's skepticism over systemic change also extends to curbing corruption inside the halls of the state Capitol. Two state senators \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Senate-suspends-Calif-state-Sen-Leland-Yee-2-5357627.php\" target=\"_blank\">now face federal charges stemming from corruption stings\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2014/02/11/3488894/record-setting-fine-hits-sacramento.html\" target=\"_blank\">a prominent Sacramento lobbyist was fined\u003c/a> for holding political fundraisers at his home that included gifts beyond the limit allowed for legislators to accept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every decade or so, there are scandals,\" said Brown. \"It's where you draw the line, and some people go over the line as it's drawn, and they get into trouble.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor also gave voice to what others have pointed out, and what legislative leaders \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-steinberg-huff-senate-ethics-20140423,0,6068362.story\" target=\"_blank\">have tried to explain to their colleagues\u003c/a>: the thin line between right and wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it's done too directly, then it's called bribery,\" said Brown. \"If it's done a little less directly, then it's called corruption. If it's done even less directly, it's called influence. And if it's done even more remotely, I guess it's just the hurly-burly of American politics.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brown Fights Back on Fracking\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few issues have hounded Brown more among his base of environmental groups than fracking, the oil-drilling method that could be expanded in California to reach \u003ca href=\"http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2013/05/130528-monterey-shale-california-fracking/\" target=\"_blank\">a massive underground shale deposit\u003c/a> — a method some critics want banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hounding of the governor has been, at times, like a traveling protest show. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Fracking-exposes-rift-between-Jerry-Brown-5305168.php\" target=\"_blank\">\"Fracktivist\" groups have trailed him across the state\u003c/a> ever since last year's signing of \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/21/us-usa-california-fracking-idUSBRE98K00C20130921\" target=\"_blank\">a law\u003c/a> to study fracking's effects while allowing it to continue under new regulations. He's been lobbied by interest groups, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9euQ0Pq99c\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood celebrities\u003c/a> and others to impose a fracking moratorium\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown defends the decision to study and regulate fracking as the right one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I haven't heard a moratorium on driving,\" the governor said. \"Most of that is fed by petroleum. So if it doesn't come out of the ground in California, it's got to come on a boat or on a train. And that has pollution, has dangers. So we need a balance here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Stealth Re-election Campaign?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters will first weigh in on June 2 as to whether to give Jerry Brown a record-setting fourth term. But expect to see the governor doing as little actual campaigning as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Brown seems poised to run a campaign that centers on governing, on staying out of the fray — regardless of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/04/29/6364951/radio-show-hosts-say-tim-donnelly.html\" target=\"_blank\">which Republican wins one of the two slots on the fall ballot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody wants change,\" said Brown. \"But we also like continuity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may not be a slogan that's necessarily ready for a political bumper sticker, but it's a theme that voters are likely to hear a lot of from Brown between now and Nov. 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tradition does have a value,\" he said, sitting in a chair in the parlor of the historic governor's mansion in Sacramento. \"I think it is good to view the present through the lenses of the past.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> 'Everybody wants change. But we also like continuity.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>— Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/cite>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134870\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/JB-in-collor-with-family.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-134870\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/JB-in-collor-with-family-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jerry Brown (back left) pictured with his father, Gov. Pat Brown (seated left).\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Gov. Pat Brown (seated left) pictured with his family, including Jerry Brown (back left) wearing a clerical collar. Brown attended a Jesuit seminary for three years, intent on becoming a Catholic priest. (Gov. Brown's office)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The mansion, now \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=498\" target=\"_blank\">a state parks museum\u003c/a>, has become one of Brown's favorite haunts around the capital city. He's used it for private dinners with legislators and, most recently, \u003ca href=\"http://www.appeal-democrat.com/news/just-like-old-times-at-the-governor-s-mansion/article_f9eb446c-c073-11e3-a39b-0017a43b2370.html\" target=\"_blank\">to celebrate his birthday with cousins who hail from the rural areas around his family's ranch in Colusa County\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I find certain strength, orientation and clarity by thinking about where we came from,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor, asked whether he'd offer specific ideas for voters considering whether to give him another term, led the conversation instead to his zeal for continuing to oversee policy changes already underway — from changes to the state budget process to \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/realignment/\" target=\"_blank\">2011's realignment of public safety\u003c/a>, and last year's \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/lc/lcffoverview.asp\" target=\"_blank\">shift of education dollars\u003c/a> to focus on children from low-income or English-learner backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In many ways, I'm looking at decentralization as a big idea,\" said Brown. \"And I want to manage it. I want to inspire good action at the local level.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And invoking the \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2013/may/16/opinion/la-ed-budget-california-spending-restraint-20130516\" target=\"_blank\">oft-stated Brown mantra of government limits\u003c/a> (a doctrine which doesn't, though, seem to apply in the case of public works projects like water conveyance and high-speed rail), the governor argues his job is not to simply create new rules and regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The role of the governor can be as much persuasive as coercive,\" he said. \"Laws and taxes are coercive, but rhetoric and inspiration can be persuasive. And I want to balance those two powers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\"> [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PnX_gu4sOk&w=560&h=315] \u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>More of the conversation with Gov. Brown can be heard Friday afternoon on the weekly news magazine edition of \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The California Report\u003c/a>\" and seen Friday night on \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED Newsroom\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor also touched on the debate over a new state budget reserve fund, the debate over entrenched poverty in California, and his own style of politics and governing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Easy Path for Expanded Affirmative Action\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he believes \u003ca href=\"http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/04/opinion-analysis-affirmative-action-up-to-the-voters/\" target=\"_blank\">the April 22 ruling on the Michigan case\u003c/a> by the nation’s highest court \"shut the door\" on any kind of new or expanded racial preferences — unless those rules are enacted by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not at all clear that if you put it on the ballot, that it could be passed,\" he said in the interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown has long defended affirmative action policies, including during his time as attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do think that because of where we are in the gaps between the races, I think we need some degree of affirmative action,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor acknowledged the deep divisions that surfaced during \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/blogs/multiamerican/2014/03/17/16109/affirmative-action-bill-sca-5-dead-for-the-year/\" target=\"_blank\">the brief legislative debate over a proposed constitutional amendment to reinstate affirmative action\u003c/a> in higher education and contracting in California. But he characterized any effort to bridge that gap as \"chancy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's never going to be perfect,\" said Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/mojTnLUGo54'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/mojTnLUGo54'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\n\u003caside class=\"left long autowidth\">\n\u003ch3>Watch More of Gov. Brown's Interview\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/KNPXbcY1uhw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/KNPXbcY1uhw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Regulation and Taxes\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/c3qAgQHKC0I'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/c3qAgQHKC0I'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Keystone XL Pipeline\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'If It's Done Too Directly, Then It's Called Bribery'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor's skepticism over systemic change also extends to curbing corruption inside the halls of the state Capitol. Two state senators \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Senate-suspends-Calif-state-Sen-Leland-Yee-2-5357627.php\" target=\"_blank\">now face federal charges stemming from corruption stings\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2014/02/11/3488894/record-setting-fine-hits-sacramento.html\" target=\"_blank\">a prominent Sacramento lobbyist was fined\u003c/a> for holding political fundraisers at his home that included gifts beyond the limit allowed for legislators to accept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every decade or so, there are scandals,\" said Brown. \"It's where you draw the line, and some people go over the line as it's drawn, and they get into trouble.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor also gave voice to what others have pointed out, and what legislative leaders \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-steinberg-huff-senate-ethics-20140423,0,6068362.story\" target=\"_blank\">have tried to explain to their colleagues\u003c/a>: the thin line between right and wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it's done too directly, then it's called bribery,\" said Brown. \"If it's done a little less directly, then it's called corruption. If it's done even less directly, it's called influence. And if it's done even more remotely, I guess it's just the hurly-burly of American politics.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brown Fights Back on Fracking\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few issues have hounded Brown more among his base of environmental groups than fracking, the oil-drilling method that could be expanded in California to reach \u003ca href=\"http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2013/05/130528-monterey-shale-california-fracking/\" target=\"_blank\">a massive underground shale deposit\u003c/a> — a method some critics want banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hounding of the governor has been, at times, like a traveling protest show. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Fracking-exposes-rift-between-Jerry-Brown-5305168.php\" target=\"_blank\">\"Fracktivist\" groups have trailed him across the state\u003c/a> ever since last year's signing of \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/21/us-usa-california-fracking-idUSBRE98K00C20130921\" target=\"_blank\">a law\u003c/a> to study fracking's effects while allowing it to continue under new regulations. He's been lobbied by interest groups, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9euQ0Pq99c\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood celebrities\u003c/a> and others to impose a fracking moratorium\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown defends the decision to study and regulate fracking as the right one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I haven't heard a moratorium on driving,\" the governor said. \"Most of that is fed by petroleum. So if it doesn't come out of the ground in California, it's got to come on a boat or on a train. And that has pollution, has dangers. So we need a balance here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Stealth Re-election Campaign?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters will first weigh in on June 2 as to whether to give Jerry Brown a record-setting fourth term. But expect to see the governor doing as little actual campaigning as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Brown seems poised to run a campaign that centers on governing, on staying out of the fray — regardless of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/04/29/6364951/radio-show-hosts-say-tim-donnelly.html\" target=\"_blank\">which Republican wins one of the two slots on the fall ballot\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody wants change,\" said Brown. \"But we also like continuity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may not be a slogan that's necessarily ready for a political bumper sticker, but it's a theme that voters are likely to hear a lot of from Brown between now and Nov. 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tradition does have a value,\" he said, sitting in a chair in the parlor of the historic governor's mansion in Sacramento. \"I think it is good to view the present through the lenses of the past.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> 'Everybody wants change. But we also like continuity.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>— Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/cite>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134870\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/JB-in-collor-with-family.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-134870\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/JB-in-collor-with-family-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jerry Brown (back left) pictured with his father, Gov. Pat Brown (seated left).\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Gov. Pat Brown (seated left) pictured with his family, including Jerry Brown (back left) wearing a clerical collar. Brown attended a Jesuit seminary for three years, intent on becoming a Catholic priest. (Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>Shoshana Walter, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/disabled-inmates-suffer-shift-county-jails-18298\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day in March, a blind man was booked into the San Bernardino County jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77734\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/jail-monica-lam-cir.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77734 \" title=\"jail monical lam cir\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/jail-monical-lam-cir.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"185\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fresno's jail population has shot up by 30 percent, one of the highest increases in the state. (Monical Lam/CIR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A parole violator, he could see only four inches in front of his face. At the West Valley Detention Center, according to his account, deputies assigned him the upper bunk in a cell at the top of a tall staircase. “The deputy laughed at me and told me I could see just fine,” he recounted. Several days later, he missed a step and, flailing for a handrail, tumbled down the steel staircase. When he returned from the hospital in a wheelchair, deputies confiscated it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blind prisoner’s account, dictated to an attorney, is one of dozens of complaints cited in a federal lawsuit alleging that the state violated the rights of disabled prisoners by not ensuring they would receive adequate care in county jails. The San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate over the state’s responsibility for disabled prisoners has taken on increasing importance as the state shifts the burden of housing many thousands of inmates onto the counties in a policy euphemistically known as “realignment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blind prisoner’s account, dictated to an attorney, is one of dozens of complaints cited in a federal lawsuit alleging that the state violated the rights of disabled prisoners by not ensuring they would receive adequate care in county jails. The San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate over the state’s responsibility for disabled prisoners has taken on increasing importance as the state shifts the burden of housing many thousands of inmates onto the counties in a policy euphemistically known as “realignment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state, facing a federal court mandate to shrink its prison population, enacted the Public Safety Realignment Act last year, flooding county jails with felons, nonviolent offenders and parolees who have been rearrested. Among them are thousands of disabled prisoners with special medical needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For county governments already reeling from budget cutbacks, the cost of upgrading jails and caring for disabled prisoners could be huge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m crossing my fingers that we can accommodate some of those needs here in our county,” said Undersheriff Dahl Cleek, of Tulare County, where advocates found disability rights violations earlier this year. “But it’s not like we have a built-in hospital inside these jails. Those could bankrupt a county pretty quick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than two decades, attorneys representing disabled prisoners have fought the state in federal court to improve their treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1994, lawyers filed a class-action lawsuit against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation alleging that the department housed disabled prisoners in poor conditions and discriminated against them by failing to provide equal access to programs and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landmark suit, now known as the Armstrong case after lead plaintiff John Armstrong, ultimately compelled the prison system to improve its facilities and expand services for disabled prisoners. State prisons began keeping track of disabled inmates, giving them vests that identified their disability status and making sure they had access to showers, toilets, medical supplies and prison programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We underwent tremendous changes,” said Jeanne Woodford, the former corrections department director who helped implement the policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the surge of inmates in county jails, lawyers for the disabled gathered dozens of complaints from prisoners and presented them to U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken, who deemed them evidence of widespread rights violations in county facilities. The cases included:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, an inmate with 80 percent hearing loss was denied a hearing aid and then disciplined for failing to listen to deputies’ directions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Barbara County, a bipolar and suicidal parole violator said he was denied the medication he had received while in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento County, a blind parole violator was denied a tapping cane, forcing him to rely on inmates and deputies to escort him to the toilet, the showers and meals. He had been permitted a cane in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles County, a paralyzed parolee reported that deputies replaced her custom wheelchair with a broken one, tying her feet to the footrests to keep them from dragging, then gave her a cell with a door that was not wide enough for a wheelchair. Deputies later returned her personal wheelchair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Tulare County, an inmate with swollen legs from chronic liver disease reported that deputies had confiscated his cane. In prison, he had been allowed to use a cane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in Tulare County, a parole violator scheduled for knee replacement surgery was given an upper bunk; he fell 11 times while trying to climb onto his bed, he said. In prison, he had been assigned a lower bunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Butte County, a deaf inmate said he could not communicate with medical staff about an ear infection because the jail did not provide a sign language interpreter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodford was asked by the prisoners’ attorneys to review jail polices and the prisoners’ complaints. She said many county jails are now in the same position the state prisons were before the Armstrong case was filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“County jails are providing accommodations only sporadically, resulting in significant harm to CDCR prisoners and parolees,” Woodford said in a declaration to the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Wilken upheld her earlier order that the state is responsible for disabled parole violators and prisoners who are being held in county facilities. She ordered the state to begin emailing jails with information about disabled prisoners coming into their care and describing the past services they received. She also ordered the state to give prisoners grievance forms and investigate complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Sept. 10, the state has notified county jails that more than 1,300 of their newly arrived inmates are disabled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gay Grunfeld, the lead attorney for prisoners in the Armstrong case, said the judge’s order would improve conditions in the jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This idea that the state and the counties are totally separate is just inconsistent with reality,” she said. “I’m very confident that providing information about the particular parolees is going to help everybody improve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state, however, has appealed Wilken’s decision. And in June, Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation declaring that any parolee locked up in a county jail is under the county’s “sole legal custody and jurisdiction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials are concerned that if the state prevails, they may be on the hook for expensive jail renovations, long-term treatment programs and services such as sign language interpreters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a question that we don’t yet know the answer to,” said Butte County Undersheriff Kory Honea. “Certainly, there is the possibility that litigation costs, or the costs associated with retrofitting the facility or providing accommodations could increase. It could be substantial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Grunfeld said county jails have no excuse for not following the federal law that protects all Americans with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re worried,” she said, “they should start complying.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Among them are thousands of disabled prisoners with special medical needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For county governments already reeling from budget cutbacks, the cost of upgrading jails and caring for disabled prisoners could be huge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m crossing my fingers that we can accommodate some of those needs here in our county,” said Undersheriff Dahl Cleek, of Tulare County, where advocates found disability rights violations earlier this year. “But it’s not like we have a built-in hospital inside these jails. 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State prisons began keeping track of disabled inmates, giving them vests that identified their disability status and making sure they had access to showers, toilets, medical supplies and prison programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We underwent tremendous changes,” said Jeanne Woodford, the former corrections department director who helped implement the policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the surge of inmates in county jails, lawyers for the disabled gathered dozens of complaints from prisoners and presented them to U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken, who deemed them evidence of widespread rights violations in county facilities. 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Deputies later returned her personal wheelchair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Tulare County, an inmate with swollen legs from chronic liver disease reported that deputies had confiscated his cane. In prison, he had been allowed to use a cane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in Tulare County, a parole violator scheduled for knee replacement surgery was given an upper bunk; he fell 11 times while trying to climb onto his bed, he said. In prison, he had been assigned a lower bunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Butte County, a deaf inmate said he could not communicate with medical staff about an ear infection because the jail did not provide a sign language interpreter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodford was asked by the prisoners’ attorneys to review jail polices and the prisoners’ complaints. 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But there is a broad difference of opinion about whether the plan, which handed California's 58 counties responsibility for the incarceration and oversight of thousands of criminals, has made communities safer or reduced the number of criminals who re-offend, and there is no statewide data on those outcomes.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland-tribune/ci_21669796/oakland-dance-music-show-prompts-flood-noise-complaints\">Oakland dance music show prompts flood of noise complaints to police\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A late-night musical event at the Oakland Coliseum flooded police phones with hundreds of noise complaints from Oakland, Alameda and San Leandro Saturday night and Sunday morning, prompting stadium officials to issue an apology Sunday evening. 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Ellison, who just turned 68 and is among the planet's most recognizable billionaires, has plenty besides work to keep himself busy, including his fast cars, jets, yacht racing and a newly purchased Hawaiian island. But given his ambitious goals for the corporation -- and the tough competition it faces -- industry observers say he's unlikely to call it quits.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-oven-is-cookin-3908730.php\">Bay Area oven is cookin'\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Sunday was hot, forecasters said. 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An analysis by this newspaper of IRS tax-return data shows that states that charge high income taxes -- from California to New York to New Jersey -- are home to the highest number of rich people per capita. And two-thirds of the states that don't charge any income taxes actually have fewer numbers of millionaire residents per capita, the analysis shows.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland-tribune/ci_21663190/bay-area-burmese-community-gives-aung-san-suu\">Bay Area Burmese community gives Aung San Suu Kyi a rock-star welcome in San Francisco\u003c/a> (SJ Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In a gathering tinged with both a global sense of gravity and emotional intimacy, the Bay Area's Burmese refugee community gave freedom fighter Aung San Suu Kyi a rock-star welcome Saturday, greeting the Nobel Peace Prize-winner with the warm embrace of a family reunited after being split asunder by history and fate. 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