As you know, California recently underwent a shift in criminal justice policy, where we realigned state responsibilities for low-level offenders to the counties, because a three-judge court panel decided that we rightly had decided that we had an overcrowding problem in California state prisons, and we need to relieve the population there.
Harris explains the recent changes in California's criminal justice policy aimed at addressing prison overcrowding.
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In writing this book, one truth kept coming back to me. Sometimes the fight takes a while, but I remain full of hope and I remain clear-eyed. I will never stop to make our country reflect the very best of its ideals.
And the reality of it is where we are right now didn’t have to be this way — in terms of the blank check that this president has given.
There is a lot of consensus around the priorities of this moment, and that’s where I’m focused.
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