sacramento county's main jail sits in the heart of downtown. 20 miles to the south in the heart of one of the nation's largest and most productive farming areas is the county's correctional center. like the downtown branch, real consumas roughly houses 2,000 men and women. but here, the majority of them are already convicted of crimes and serving sentences. that's due in part to a 2011 law known as the public safety realignment act or ab 10 nine. >> the catalyst for ab 109 was the state's mandate and need to reduce the prison population with haste. they called it realignment. the idea being to realign lower-level offenders to a more appropriate custodial setting. what they did was take the responsibility for thousands of inmates that would have been going to the state prison system