-The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Bay Area, August 4, 2011 by Bobby White
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903520204576484794233725436.html
“As every county makes up its own rules—who goes on probation, who goes to state prison, who goes to jail and for how long—you will likely see big disparities between some counties,” says Barry Krisberg, director of research and policy at the Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at University of California, Berkeley.
-The Wall Street Journal, August 10, 2011 by Vauhini Vara and Bobby White
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904292504576482151386405920.html
But county plans so far are wildly uneven. “The approach California is using for realignment is, put the money on the stump and run,” said Barry Krisberg of the Earl Warren Institute of Law and Social Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. “The state gives the money to the counties and then says, ‘Do what you want.’ “