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The state of california tried to solve it's own prison overcrowding by passing a bill called ab 109, backed by the governor jerry brown. it called for a realignment of where criminals serve time, low-level offenders and especially parole violators would no longer come to state prisons. they would instead go to county jails but in san jakeem county, they are in order to control the overcrowding. according to the sheriff, the state dumped it's problem on the county, and the county is now dumping criminals on the streets. so no matter what the state or the governor says are the county's duties in...

Same, come in, spend a night, come out. >> come in, spend the night, cop out. >> reporter: in stockton, california, this convicted sex offender has no real incentive to follow any rules of his parole, which is why parole supervisor susan cane is trying to sound the alarm and speaking out against the state's wishes saying she believes the public is not safe. she says she's speaking out for herself personality and not the department of corrections. >> in all my years of law enforcement, over 30 years, i for the first time feel at a total loss, that i can honestly say we do our job. we do the ver...

And dominique is live in los angeles with the details. >> not many people are comfortable with this in california, and the state got less than five months to reduce the prison population by the 10,000. california's governor, jerry brown, repeatedly warned that more releases could set more felons free, and then the court refused to grant the state's reprieve based on the progress being made on prison overcrowding, and the ones that we have left in state prisons here are the most severe and most vie hrupt prisoners you can find. and we have now got 122,000, and that means it's still at least 30%...

California prisoners will be released early because of prison overcrowding there. the supreme court is refusing to delay the appeal from governor jerry brown. dom nick has the latest on the situation. >> it most certainly is. it is five months to reduce the prison population by 10,000 despite repeated warnings from jerry brown that releasing further inmates moans setting dangerous felons free. in a ruling by anthony kennedy. they refused to grant the state a reprieve. low risk prisoners are in county jail. the state reduced prison population by 46,000 in the past six years or so but it is 30 p...

Problems and prison overcrowding. >> bill: they don't want to pay for the predators, that's nice, that's nice. >> i think the d.a.'s some of whom, he was right the other night, are not necessarily in favor of jessica's law don't like to be handcuffed to minimum sentences. >> bill: they want to slow it down. >> harder to get a plea. >> bill: i agree with all of that. there we go, colorado. there we go. okay. that's the truth and it's wrong. jes jesus, jesus jeans. >> let's talk jesus. >> bill: jesus would not like what's going on in colorado and hawaii. >> he'd watch "the factor" and object. >>...