Commentary: California’s Prop. 36 ‘Train Wreck’ Is About to Drive Us Back to Mass Incarceration

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.”…

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