Realignment is a method used to redirect low-level offenders and parole violators from overcrowded prisons to country jails. This saves money by decreasing the overpopulated prisons, decreasing the cycle of offenders to prison that thwarts rehabilitation, and impeding local law enforcement supervision. The 2011 Public Safety Realignment sentenced non-violent and non-sex offenders to country jails instead of prisons, so the less severe the crime the more likely they were to go to a country jail. Realignment is funded through the state sales tax revenue and Vehicle License Fees. Governor Brown 's Proposition 30, passed in November 2012, created a constitutional amendment prohibiting the Legislature from reducing Realignment funding. Local Custody