California’s Proposition 36, passed by voters in 2024, is rapidly becoming the crisis many predicted—a costly, unfunded mandate wrapped in tough-on-crime rhetoric.
This week, The Daily Journal published stunning testimony from San Bernardino County Superior Court Presiding Judge Lisa Rogan, who called the situation what it is: “a train wreck coming.”
“When you’re talking about adding thousands of cases, this is a train wreck because there are not sufficient resources to give those people the treatment that has been promised,” Rogan told lawmakers. “There’s not the judicial resources to oversee those cases.”…