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Tinisch Hollins, executive director of Californians for Safety and Justice, criticized California’s Prop 36 in a recent interview, calling it a “solution to a problem that didn’t exist.” Despite voter ...
A man on post-release supervision was arrested last Thursday after probation officers said they found a handgun, suspected ...
Prosecutors are holding repeat offenders to a tougher standard the voters allowed when they passed Proposition 36.
Criminal justice advocates and public defenders have criticized Prop. 36, which reversed part of a voter-approved 2014 crime ...
According to a Facebook post, the presidents of the California State Sheriffs’ Association, the California District Attorneys ...
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) likes to manipulate statistics to make it seem like he hasn't turned California into a soft-on-crime paradise for criminals.
As local leaders, including District Attorney Summer Stephan, rallied behind Proposition 36 last year, opponents of the ...
Early signs—including more than 1,000 felony theft arrests under Prop. 36—show that this law can deliver on those promises. But only if we give it the resources needed to succeed.
San Diego police data reveals that a third of people arrested for Proposition 36 drug and theft violations in the law’s ...
Prop. 36 is poised to do substantial harm to individuals, families, and communities. Raiding the Prop. 47 grant program to pay for Prop. 36 would deepen that harm.
Prop. 36 simply pointed to two existing funding streams as a source of treatment dollars: 1) Proposition 47 grants, which reinvest the prison savings generated by a 2014 law easing penalties on ...
Prop. 36 is poised to do substantial harm to individuals, families, and communities. Raiding the Prop. 47 grant program to pay for Prop. 36 would deepen that harm.