“We’re going to have to continue to look at strategies to address any increase in the jail population, whether it’s from Prop. 36 or anything else,” Pinkney told the Board of Supervisors ...

The County’s latest report, outlining significant jail population growth since Prop. 36 went into effect, suggests the closure may not be happening any time soon, if at all. “Under Proposition ...

Critics of Prop. 36 say the law makes simple drug possession ... he needs to hire more correctional deputies to fully staff his jail in Indio — but San Bernardino County’s jails are about ...

On today's show , we are three months into prop 36 , where penalties for certain drug and theft offenses come with jail time. So what's been the outcome so far ? This is KPBS Midday Edition.

As an alternative to a longer stay in jail or prison, Prop. 36 “will provide drug and mental health treatment.” It is Prop. 36’s threat of greater jail or prison sentences, which leading ...

He’s been to jail. He’s been to prison ... the disastrous criminal justice reform implemented a decade ago by Prop. 47 which reclassified most drug and theft felonies to misdemeanors ...

If they decide against treatment, they could go to jail or prison. If they finish treatment ... Tom Umberg of Orange County has a legislative proposal to make Prop. 36 treatment programs eligible for ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Dustin Dean Towery, the first Kern County Man charged under Prop 36, was sentenced on Monday to a split two-year sentence, one year in jail, the other under ...

Prop 36 empowers prosecutors to bring felony ... drug offenders into treatment or sentence them to up to three years in jail or prison if they decline to enter a program. Courts have long offered ...

“It’s the teeth that allows us to send them to jail,” Noel said. “Before Prop. 36, you could steal every day and you’d never be charged with a felony unless it was $950 or more.