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CA: Prop. 5 and 6 defeated in election

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

2 of 3 CA crime measures fail at polls Tuesday, November 04, 2008 AP LOS ANGELES -- Two of three crime initiatives on California's ballot were rejected Tuesday by voters who may have been deterred by the hefty cost to taxpayers in hard economic times. In a one-two punch, voters defeated two competing measures that appeared consecutively: Proposition 5, which would have increased drug rehabilitation programs, and Proposition 6, which would have cracked down on gang crimes. They were narrowly favoring a third measure that would write crime victims' rights into the state Constitution. Proposition 5 failed with 62 percent voting in opposition and 38 percent in favor with 28 percent of precincts reporting. The measure would have diverted an estimated 84,000 drug offenders - including those able to convince judges that their serious crimes are drug-related - into treatment programs each year...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 10, 2008 (boomark / email).