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Argued in felony and misdemeanor cases, and given our success rate in the last year we are estimating that alone could reduce the jail population by 240. We do think there is an under utilized nation of electronic monitoring this is all something you should consider conducting the sheriff has been committed to this. Its a fairly strong lawenforcement tool of course while somebody is out of custody awaiting trial, you know exactly where they are because of the ankle monitor. We only got 42 individuals anticipating in it right now. We think a very conservative estimate is that could be expanded by 100, and again, thats a substantial reduction in jail population. So, just to conclude then, we have got the point i made earlier that realignment may have plateaued in the short term, but because of fewer felonies and fewer state prison sentences there there be fewer parolees in the future. Bob 47 will continue to reduce the jail population because its also going to be pushing down the value o ....