Tag: California criminal-justice realignment

The new “realignment” of the California correctional system — sending hundreds of non-violent offenders to local jails instead of state prisons — may yield much better results, a San Francisco Sheriff’s Department official, Sunny Schwartz, said in an Oct. 5 talk to students. Schwartz was a speaker in Political Science 179, a course that has for nearly 30 years has featured lectures by figures in public life from across the political spectrum.