California Voters Consider Tough Love for Repeat Drug Offenders ...Middle East

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California voters are considering whether to roll back some of the criminal justice reforms enacted a decade ago as concerns about mass incarceration give way to public anger over property crime and a fentanyl crisis that has plagued the state since the covid-19 pandemic hit. Proposition 36, on the November ballot, 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. The law also has become a political wea

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