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Without going into detail I'll just say that I have a lot of experience with the system we had before Measure 110. Lots. Decades. The first problem is that the voters were fed a false narrative about drug law enforcement for years. The media narrative is that hundreds or thousands of otherwise harmless drug addicts were being sent to prison to rot. That was not happening. Criminal defendants had to work overtime for years to turn a drug possession conviction into even a short jail sentence. Inmates serving serious prison time for drug possession alone were vanishingly rare.Β
Here's what really happened: A defendant is arrested for and charged with possession of, say, a personal use quantity of heroin. Defendant is promptly interviewed in custody by a release officer, who promptly recommends to a judge that the defendant be released on recognizance on several conditions which include, among many others, that the defendant immediately submit to drug treatment evaluation and participate in recommended treatment (or return to jail pending trial). A month or so later the defendant and his court-appointed attorney show up in court and plead guilty to Possession. The judge follows the DA's recommendation and imposes a sentence like this: 90 days jail, suspended, 24 months probation on drug treatment related conditions supervised by a probation officer. Aside from the initial 24 hours or so at the time of arrest, defendant serves no jail time and need not serve any if he or she complies with probation conditions. Over the ensuing 2 years, the defendant will either comply and get clean or not. If not, probation violation charges witl be initiated and the defendant will wind up serving small segments of the 90 days jail as a sanction for non-compliance, but probation (the duration of which may be somewhat extended) will continue until the defendant gets clean or the 90 days has been served and the probation expires. This process may be repeated multiple times during an addict's lifetime. Many will eventually get clean and disappear from the justice system. Others will spend much of their remaining (usually shortened) lives being pestered by the system to reform.
So, my question is: How is the Ballot Measure 110 "program"" an Improvement over what we had before? Nudge; Nudge.
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