Realignment has large affected on operation of California’s prison and jail systems. Since more and more people commit crimes, state prisons become overcrowded. According to the Fact Sheet of 2011 Public Safety Realignment, “Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. signed Assembly Bill (AB) 109 and AB 117, historic legislation to enable California to close the revolving door of low-level inmates cycling in and out of state prisons. It is the cornerstone of California’s solution to the U.S. Supreme Court order to reduce the number of inmates in the state’s 33 prisons to 137.5 percent of original design capacity” (CDCR Fact Sheet). Overcrowded is just one of the problems that Correction systems have to face up; costs and recidivism are also challenge to
