Realignment
As a result of the State’s on-going budget crisis, the Legislature has made it clear that only the worst offenders will be allowed to go to state prison. Penal Code 1170(h) specifically notes that one of the following four conditions must be met in order to an offender to go to prison:
1) The defendant needs a prior/current felony conviction for one of the crimes listed in 1192.7(c)PC or 667.5(c)PC.
2) The defendant did a crime listed in 1192.7(c)PC or 667.5(c)PC in another state, but met all of the elements of California law.
3) The defendant is a sex registrant per 290PC.
4) The defendant is convicted of an aggravated white-collar crime of fraud pursuant to 186.11PC.
Penal Code 1192.7(c) lists 42 crimes that are eligible for state prison and Penal Code 667.5(c) lists 23 crimes (most of which overlap the other section). Additionally, there are 59 other crimes that are listed as non-violent, non-serious, and non-sexual crimes that are also eligible for state prision (this is called the exclusion list since they are excluded from the other normal parts of realignment). For more information, click on the links below:
- LIST OF SERIOUS/VIOLENT CRIMES ELIGIBLE FOR PRISON
- LIST OF NON-VIOLENT CRIMES STILL ELIGIBLE FOR PRISON
- LIST OF FELONY CRIMES THAT ARE NOW SERVED IN COUNTY JAIL
- REALIGNMENT AB109 CALIFORNIA
- FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ON REALIGNMENT
- PROSECUTORS' ANALYSIS OF REALIGNMENT
- HOW WILL LA COUNTY HANDLE REALIGNMENT?
- FELONY SENTENCING AFTER REALIGNMENT
- REALIGNMENT RESOURCES
- (02/29/12) LA DAILY NEWS: BACA'S PLANS WITH INMATES
- (03/08/12) LA TIMES: CALIF WRITES 602 MILLION CHECK FOR JAIL CONSTRUCTION
- (03/09/12) AP NEWS: CA STUDY VIEWS HIGH-RISK INMATE MOVE
- (03/12/12) NBC NEWS: RISE IN BURGLARIES DUE TO EARLY RELEASE
- (03/16/12) LAPPL BLOG: PAROLEES HIDE BEHIND PRIVACY LAWS
- (03/22/12) LA TIMES: ACLU IS CRITICAL OF REALIGNMENT
- (03/28/12) RE-ARREST RATES DIP FOR COUNTY PAROLEES
- (04/03/12) REALIGNMENT OFF TO A ROUGH START
- (04/12/12) REALIGNMENT PROGRAM IMPACTS LOCAL CRIME
- (04/16/12) BUDGET CUTS THREATENING THE COURT SYSTEM
- (04/23/12) CALIF PRISIONS DETAIL PLAN TO DOWNSIZE
- (05/29/12) REALIGNMENT PLAN FOR CALIFORNIA PRISONS CAUSING NEW FRICTION
- (06/08/12) NEW LAW REDUCES OVERSIGHT OF PAROLEES
- (06/08/12) CALIFORNIA'S BROKEN PAROLE AND PROBABION SYSTEM
- (06/30/12) CALIFORNIA SHUFFLES CRIMES UNDER INMATE-CROWDING LAW
- (07/05/12) CALIFORNIA UNDERESTIMATED NUMBER OF PRISONERS SENT TO JAIL
- (07/05/12) JAIL SHIFT MAKES WAVES IN CALIFORNIA
- (07/25/12) REALIGNMENT HAS SHIFTED 38000 FELONS TO LOCAL CONTROL
- (07/26/12) SCORES OF ARRESTS MADE AFTER REALIGNMENT
- (08/05/12) CALIFORNIA COUNTY JAILS FACING BIGGER LOAD
- (08/09/12) CALIFORNIA PRISON POPULATION DECLINE SLOWS
- (08/15/12) REALIGNMENT HAS DROPPED CALIF PRISON POPULATION SHARPLY
- (08/20/12) CALIF BALKS AT PROVIDING PRISON RELEASE PLAN
- (08/27/12) CALIF JAIL OVERHAUL ASSESSED AFTER 6 MONTHS
- (09/12/12) LA COUNTY GROUND ZERO FOR PRISON REALIGNMENT
- (09/17/12) PRISON RELEASE PLAN UNSAFE
- (09/29/12) PRISON REFORMS GETS MIXED RESULTS
- (10/01/12) REALIGNMENT: A PROGRESS REPORT
- (10/04/12) ONE YEAR INTO REALIGNMENT - LAW ENFORCEMENET VOICE FEARS
- (10/22/12) REALIGNMENT - ONE YEAR LATER
- (10/29/12) MORE FELONS CLEAN BUT REVOLVING DOOR CONTINUES
- (11/02/12) MORE ROOMS OPEN IN LA COUNTY JAIL
- (11/05/12) FEWER INMATES ELIGIBLE FOR TRANSFER TO COUNTY JAILS
- (11/10/12) CALIF LOOKS TO DROP WARRANTS FOR SOME PAROLEES
- (11/15/12) CALIF SEEKS EXTENSION TO COMPLY WITH PRISION CAPS
- (11/30/12) LA COUNTY SEEING HIGH-RISK OFFENDERS ENTERING PROBATION
- (12/11/12) LA COUNTY URGES CURBS ON STATE PRISONER TRANSFERS
- (12/11/12) REALIGNMENT TESTS LA COUNTY
- (12/11/12) PAROLEES CUTTING OFF GPS MONITORS
- (12/23/12) REALIGNMENTS UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
- (01/08/13) BROWN SEEKS TO LIFT INMATE CAPS
- (01/12/13) REALIGNMENT CAUSES DANGERS AT LOCAL LEVEL
- (01/16/13) STATE MISSES MARK ON PRISON CROWDING
- (01/25/13) PRISON REFORM CONSEQUENCES
- (01/30/13) US JUDGE GIVES CALIF 6 MORE MONTHS TO CUT PRISON POPULATION
- (02/03/13) SOCAL POLICE CHIEFS ON AB109: THIS IS DANGEROUS
- (02/13/13) FEDERAL JUDGE UPSET WITH SLAP AT CALIF PRISON MONITORING
- (02/13/13) MORE PAROLEES TAMPERING WITH ANKLE BRACELET MONITORS
- (02/15/13) BROWN'S PAROLE RECORD SETS HIM APART FROM PREDECESSORS
- (03/30/13) INMATE SHUFFLE RESULTS IN BUDGET REALIGNMENT SQUABBLES
- (06/17/13) CALIF PRISON CROWDING IS GROWING
- (06/20/13) GOV BROWN MUST COMPLY WITH PRISON ORDER
- (06/21/13) CALIF HAS OPTIONS WITH PRISONER RELEASE
- (06/24/13) GOV BROWN SUBMITS PLAN TO REDUCE INMATES
- (06/25/13) GOV BROWN GIVES LEGISLATURE HIS PRISON-FIX PLAN
- (06/26/13) GOV BROWN PLAN IS DOA IN THE SENATE
- (07/08/13) REALIGNMENT; UNLIKELY TO SEE ANY MAJOR FIX
- (07/17/13) CALIF GOVERERNORS QUESTION REALIGNMENT RULING
- (07/22/13) CALIF AND NON-PARTISAN RESEARCH GROUP TEAM TO MEASURE REALIGNMENT
- (07/22/13) YOUTH SYSTEM REALIGNMENT IN FLUX
- (07/24/13) BROWN SCUTTLED PRISON BOND HAUNTS STATE
- (08/02/13) SUPREME COURT REGJECTS CALIF REQUEST TO HALT PRISONER RELEASE
- (08/02/13) LA COUNTY FEARS CRIME AND COST RISE FROM PRISONER RELEASE
- (08/05/13) PRISONS CHIEF OUTLINES RELEASE OF PRISONER PLAN
- (08/05/13) CALIF TO MOVE PRISONERS TO PRIVATE PRISONS
- (08/07/13) SENATE LEADERS CALL FOR FUNDING TO AVERT RELEASES
- (08/07/13) CALIF PRISONS COULD FREE 1000 TO EASE CROWDING
- (08/27/13) LA IS GROUND ZERO FOR REALIGNMENT
- (08/28/13) GOV BROWN PROPOSES $315 MILLION TO LEASE PRIVATE PRISON CELLS
- (08/29/13) ASSEMBLY PANEL APPROVES $315 MILLION TO REDUCE PRISON CROWDING
- (08/29/13) GOV BROWN OUTLINES PRISON PLAN FOR FEDERAL JUDGES
- (09/08/13) LONG TERM INMATES AND PRISON CULTURE MOVE INTO COUNTY JAILS
- (09/26/13) LA LAW ENFORCEMENT TELLS OF STRUGGLES WITH PRISON REALIGNMENT
- (10/18/13) WHEREABOUTS OF 2000 HIGH-RISK OFFENDERS IS UNKNOWN
- (10/23/13) STATE NOT PROVIDING LOCAL JURISDICTIONS WITH RESOURCES
- (11/08/13) NEW CRIMES COULD UNDERMINE REALIGNMENT
- (11/10/13) LA COUNTY HAS LOST TRACK OF THOUSANDS OF PROBATIONERS
- (11/24/13) STUDY FINDS MIXED RESULTS AFTER REALIGNMENT
- (11/28/13) JAIL VIOLENCE RISES AFTER REALIGNMENT
- (12/10/13) REPORT CONNECTS REALIGNMENT TO RISE IN PROPERTY CRIME
- (12/17/13) LA COUNTY PLANS PUSH FOR MORE STATE PRISON REALIGNMENT MONEY