In the roughly 8 1/2 years since California lawmakers embarked on an historic sentencing reform campaign, homicides in the state's county jails have increased by 46%.  Alyssa Hodenfield and John Walker of the Sacramento Bee report that the state's effort to eliminate prison overcrowding has transformed jails into violent and overcrowded mini-prisons with neither the resources, training, or the facilities to serve the influx of hardened repeat felons no longer eligible for prison.  In October of 2011, Governor Brown's "Public Safety Realignment" law, AB 109, took effect.  The law shifted sentences for habitual property and drug offenders from prison to county jails, requiring jails originally designed to hold drunks and petty thieves for a year or less to accommodate habitual drug dealers, wife beaters, car thieves, and commercial burglars for years rather than months.  While the state has classified these offenders as low risk for violence, many are violent, gang-affiliated criminals.  The article cites a study by the Public Policy Institute of California that AB 109 has not had an effect on public safety, although the FBI Uniform Crime Report has shown increased violent crime in California for 2015, 2016, and 2017.  This is the first three-year increase in violent crime since 1992.  Also, as noted in earlier posts, thousands of property crimes converted to misdemeanors by Proposition 47, are no longer reported to police, meaning while the overall crime rate (violent+property) appears slightly lower, this is a false indicator.