Two years ago the U.S. Supreme Court certified California’s prisons as unconstitutional – overcrowded, unsafe and prone to cause, not cure, recidivism. Responding to the earlier federal injunction ordering California to reduce its prison population, the Legislature passed Assembly Bill 109, the so-called Public Safety Realignment law that transferred authority for large numbers of convicted felons from the state prison and parole system to the state’s 58 counties.