State Awards $602M for County Jails' Construction, Expansion
The Corrections Standards Authority of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has awarded $602 million to 11 counties for the expansion or construction of county jails.
The award is in adherence to Gov. Jerry Brown’s public safety realignment program, which, as Assembly Bill 109 passed and signed last April, seeks to keep lower-level offenders and parole violators from revolving through the state prison system and places them in local facilities. County facilities that need to increase jail capacity were required to apply for the funds.