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Both youth and adults are welcome. California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 36, a new law that stiffened penalties for certain drug and theft charges, and pledged to provide “mass ...

Gavin Newsom’s January budget proposal did not allocate money for Prop. 36, but estimated the measure would yield an increase of 3,300 people to the prison population over the next year.