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Chabria: Proposition 36 created 'treatment-mandated felonies.' What it really created is a complicated mess

LA Times 1 min read 3 hours ago

<p>In 2024, tough-on-crime types pushed Proposition 36 into law by promising that more incarceration would be matched with more treatment for those addicted to drugs.</p>
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