Proposition 5
“Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act of 2008”
Establishes a California secretary of rehabilitation and parole and other departments, offices and programs intended to provide rehabilitation and alternative sentencing for drug defendants.
Los Angeles Times editorial, Sept. 26, 2008:
“Proposition 5 follows in the tradition of California ballot measures lined with good intentions and stuffed with disaster. It lures voters with a comforting mirage: a revamped and rational policy for treating drug addiction as an illness and confronting it through rehabilitation instead of punishment. But that’s not what it would deliver.”
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