Criminal
Feb. 23, 2011
State's Drug Offender Treatment Program In Jeopardy
California's effort to put nonviolent drug offenders in drug treatment rather than jail will be in jeopardy after money for Proposition 36 runs dry.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
California's bold experiment to place nonviolent drug offenders in rehabilitation programs rather than jail will be in jeopardy after federal stimulus funds for Proposition 36 run dry this year.
Prop. 36, which voters overwhelmingly passed in 2000, gives first- and second-time, simple-possession drug offenders a statutory right to drug treatment in lieu of incarceration, and allocated $120 millio...
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