The realignment legislation has
just dramatically changed the whole
structure of california sentencing. It's
really the biggest change that has occurred
since california has been a state. It even eclipses when we went from an indeterminate system 
to a determinate system.
what it's doing now is shifting a
huge percentage of the population to the
county's for handling that
we used to routinely send to state prison
and even with that option its
giving us new choices, sentencing choices
from direct sentenced to jail or a
split sentence that gives us additional
sentencing options for treating
individuals after there's a violation
it also has shifted of the
responsibility for managing people
coming out of prison through the uh...
post release community supervision
aspect and then we'll see even more
change in 2013 when
we start dealing with the regular parole
population so it will dramatically
increase the workload of the courts as
well as the probation departments
in addition and it's really 
creating an opportunity for the courts
to get more involved with local justice
policy through the 
community corrections partnerships
so that we're having a greater
role now in the shaping of how we're
gonna be using local resources and how
we're going to deal with this new
population
