Fresno County is joining a growling list of central valley areas protesting prison realignment funding. Last month, Kern supervisors voted to ask the state for more money to handle the increase in prisoners released in our area.
Fresno and Kern leaders complain the Bay Area gets 14 thousand dollars more per offender.
State Senator Michael Rubio told the Fresno Bee he plans to write a bill that would base the money on the number of prisoners released, not on the population of the area.
