California prisons won't hold some illegal immigrant offenders

California corrections officials have told the federal government that they will no longer lock up undocumented immigrants on parole violations who enter the country illegally after being deported, a practice that costs the state an estimated $10 million a year.

In a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Friday and in a news conference today, California corrections chief Matt Cate said the federal government should prosecute undocumented immigrants who return to the country after deportation because that is a crime under federal law.

Paroled sex offenders now monitored by GPS

State corrections officials announced today that a majority of paroled sex offenders in California are being monitored by GPS technology.

The agency reports that 6,622 sex offenders have been fitted with GPS ankle bracelets, allowing their parole agents to immediately locate them.  The broad use of monitoring technology is an outgrowth of Proposition 83, or Jessica's Law, which was passed in 2006 by state voters. It required every offender to be outfitted with the technology.