misdemeanors and some felonies. In 2011, California's Public Safety Realignment Act was signed into law in response to the Supreme Court case Brown v. Plata and the resulting court order to address prison overcrowding in the state. Realignment "shifted responsibility for all sentenced non-violent, non-serious, non-sex offenders from state to local jurisdictions", which decreased California prison populations, increased California county jail populations, and changed the types and distribution of crimes for which people were serving sentences in county jails. City incarceration Some cities run their own jails for incarcerating people in pre-trial detention, typically overseen by the city police department. Many city jails additionally have a "pay to stay" program as an alternative to incarceration in a county jail. See also Prisons in California California fire camps Capital punishment in California References External links Federal Bureau of Prisons website US Immigration and Customers Enforcement website California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation website Prisons in California Jails in California