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PUBLISHED 5/15/08 --- Kern County is in line for a $100 million expansion of its Lerdo Jail, and the check won’t come a moment too soon. Overcrowding and disrepair have forced the Sheriff’s Department to release nonviolent offenders who, in most cases, have served only 30 percent of their sentences — a non-solution solution the 2005 Kern County grand jury criticized as a blow to judges’ intentions when they issue sentences. Space constraints are so bad that at one point the Sheriff’s Department stopped accepting bookings of people arrested for certain misdemeanor offenses, including shoplifting, vandalism, trespassing, peace disturbances and possession of small amounts of marijuana. These days most people arrested for those misdemeanors are simply issued a citation following the booking process. “In this county, misdemeanants are not dealt ... the punishment that necessarily fits the crime, because of lack of bed space,” Sheriff...
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