Is realignment a model for reform?

Barry Krisberg quoted in East Bay Express, January 16, 2013

The Determinate Sentencing Law affixed set prison terms to every crime. So, for example, a burglary conviction results automatically in a sentence of two, four, or six years in prison depending on the circumstances of the crime. “The idea is, do the crime, do the time,” explained Barry Krisberg…. “There’s no role for rehabilitation in it.”