AB 109

Editorial: California’s counties could learn from the nation’s only prison rodeo

Editor’s Note: On April 20, Gold Country Media reporter Scott Thomas Anderson spent the day at the Angola Prison Rodeo, held at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, two hours no ...

Placer’s jail of the future still sitting empty

The new South Placer Adult Correctional facility is a state-of-the-art jail that could help increase inmate and officer safety, keep more criminals behind bars and lessen the count ...

Probation, parole sweep triggers 18 arrests in Roseville

Roseville police officers launched a crime suppression operation this morning, arresting 18 people between four locations in just over five hours — recovering methamphetamine ...

Roseville realignment offender arrested

Critics of California’s new law, AB 109, argue one of its major flaws involves allowing convicts with violent backgrounds to be free around the public rather than in state pr ...

Police discuss probation sweep that triggered 15 arrests

With probation departments across the state facing elevated workloads and more serious offenders due to AB 109, some police departments are stepping up efforts to help monitor crim ...

AB 109 an increasing challenge for Placer jail, crime suppression

With California’s embattled “criminal realignment” plan having been in effect for a year, a new independent study is beginning to question whether it’s acco ...