The groundbreaking 2000 ballot proposition that mandated drug treatment instead of jail sentences for low-level offenses is barely running and may soon be history, according to testimony during an Assembly hearing.
Treatment advocates have hailed the program as transformative for those who kicked the drug habit. About 13,000 California residents per year finished drug treatment under the law.
Their success wound up saving public systems the cost of incarcerating them – and many became taxpayers, a UCLA report found.
Voter-mandated drug treatment program headed for extinction California Watch
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