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California Cuts Funding for Prop 36 Drug Treatment Programs

In an effort to trim a $26.3 billion budget deficit, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger slashed $90 million from a diversion program designed to offer certain non-violent drug offenders the opportunity to participate in substance abuse treatment instead of going to prison.

In 2000, in a rare show of rationality by ...

 

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