In a sign that public safety realignment is gaining prominence, Gov. Jerry Brown touched on the issue in his short statement on his May budget revision Read More
Categories: Crime, Partnership for Community Excellence
Campaign season for the 2014 elections is already heating up and public safety realignment is fast becoming one of the most politicized topics. Read More
Categories: Crime, Partnership for Community Excellence
We have no way to determine if realignment is working or will work because no money was put into research Read More
Categories: Crime, Partnership for Community Excellence
This week we discuss the alarming lack of data being collected on AB 109 and how such data could be put to good use if the state would simply require it and provide funding. Read More
Categories: Crime, Partnership for Community Excellence
With all of the speculation and prognostication surrounding public safety realignment, arithmetic provides the most succinct summary of what is happening. We give you our public safety realignment weekly digest. Read More
Categories: Crime, Partnership for Community Excellence
In the realm of public safety realignment, there are two layers: what is actually happening and how the media chooses to connect those dots and report on the subject. Read More
Categories: Crime, Partnership for Community Excellence
Our weekly digest of the news in the world of public safety realignment. Read More
Categories: Crime, Partnership for Community Excellence
During the first two years of Realignment, California’s 58 counties will have received more than $2 billion Read More
Categories: Partnership for Community Excellence
On a Tuesday in March more than 50 public safety professional from 21 of California’s 58 counties thought through the best possible route to keeping offenders from re-offending. Read More
Categories: Partnership for Community Excellence
As is always the case, nothing this complex, involving billions of dollars of funding and a shift of tens of thousands of prisoners across 58 counties, is strictly black and white. Read More
Categories: Partnership for Community Excellence
It was another busy week in the world of public safety realignment in California as the implementation of historic legislation that has helped enable California to close the revolving door of low-level inmates cycling in and out of state prisons continues. Read More
Categories: Crime, Partnership for Community Excellence
A ground breaking study of who actually gets arrested in four California metropolitan areas has some surprising results. It’s us. Read More
Categories: Partnership for Community Excellence
The best solutions to complex issues often come from a solid application of the three Cs: communication, collaboration and cooperation. And that is exactly what was going on last month in the CSAC Conference Center in Sacramento. Read More
Categories: Partnership for Community Excellence
Upon my release, my wife passed me an iPhone 4S. It was far smaller than the Motorola cellphone that I used back in 1987, when my journey through America’s prison system began. Read More
Categories: Crime, Michael G. Santos, Partnership for Community Excellence
We present the initial installment of the PCE Realignment Digest, which will bring an informed perspective to the table on all of the important realignment-related news from the prior week. Read More
Categories: Crime, Government, Partnership for Community Excellence
The January 8th event, titled “Leadership Symposium on Evidence-Based Practice, Implementation Science: Closing the Gap Between Innovation and Practice,” at UC Davis reported on the latest developments in implementation science. Read More
Categories: Partnership for Community Excellence
Gov. Jerry Brown made a bold yet calculated play this week to challenge the Federal Court’s continued jurisdiction over the California prison system as part of a ruling that mandated a reduction in the state prison population. Read More
Categories: Crime, Government, Partnership for Community Excellence
Helping ex-offenders successfully reenter society as law-abiding, tax-paying citizens is a win for everyone. Read More
Categories: Crime, Michael G. Santos, Partnership for Community Excellence
Rather than focusing on living as a model inmate, more than 15 years ago I started thinking about what I would need to emerge as a law-abiding, contributing citizen. Read More
Categories: Crime, Michael G. Santos, Partnership for Community Excellence
In this entry, Michael Santos accepts that he will only be seen as a criminal while on the inside, so he figures way to prepare for an exit and make the best of his time inside. Read More
Categories: Crime, Michael G. Santos, Partnership for Community Excellence