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Proposition 36 would unwind portions of a 2014 initiative, known as Proposition 47 , that reduced most shoplifting and drug possession offenses to misdemeanors that rarely carried jail time.
Critics say that has allowed criminality to flourish and given those suffering from addiction little incentive to break the cycle.
Measure would create a new “treatment-mandated felony” that could be imposed on people who illegally possess “hard” drugs, including fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine.
Supporters say the measure is a way to revive drug courts, which they say waned in effectiveness.
The November ballot measure also would allow judges to send drug dealers to state prisons instead of county jails.
It would make it easier to charge someone with murder if they provide illegal drugs that kill someone.
The changes could increase California ’s prison population, currently about 90,000 , and its county jail and community supervision population by a few thousand people’ Opponents of the measure project that the increase would be far higher.
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