As a result of “get-tough” sentencing legislation and correctional policies in the latter part of the 20th century, California and other state correctional populations climbed steeply. By 2009, the United States had reached a peak of incarceration reflecting more than 1.5 million individuals incarcerated in federal and state prisons (Ghandnoosh, 2019; Travis, Western, and Redburn, 2014). States across the country have invested in various strategies over the past decade to reduce the sizes of their prison populations, with the aim of protecting public safety and reining in corrections expenditures. Policies include reducing lengthy prison terms, prioritizing prison space for violent and career offenders, providing alternatives to prison for lower-level nonviolent offenders, reducing probation and parole revocations, and directing savings into programs to help reduce recidivism (Pew Charitable Trusts, 2017, p. 1; Mauer, 2019).