LOS ANGELES, Nov. 4 – Proposition 5, the Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act, failed to capture a majority of votes on Election Day, bringing to an end the most ambitious prison and sentencing reform in US history. Prop. 5 proponents blamed California’s prison guards for funding deceptive advertising and said the No on 5 campaign misled [...]
Prop. 5 Would Provide Children with Treatment Instead of Jail Sentences
LOS ANGELES, November 3 – Today, the Children’s Defense Fund – California (CDF-CA) endorsed Proposition 5, a ballot initiative that Californians will vote on next Tuesday. If passed, Prop 5 would provide $65 million per year to counties to make drug treatment available to at-risk [...]
Echo State Democratic Party Endorsement
SAN JOSE, November 3– Bay Area legislators today announced support for Proposition 5, echoing the endorsement of the State Democratic Party. Highlighting the cost savings of treatment not incarceration programs, Assemblymembers Beall, Lieber and Leno called on voters to approve the much-needed treatment expansion and prison reform.
Assemblyman Jim Beall, of [...]
Treatment-not-Jail Proven to Reduce Incarceration Costs
Measure Would Negate $2.5 Billion for Prison Construction
LOS ANGELES, October 31 – Governor Schwarzenegger has called a special legislative session on November 5 to try to shore up a multi-billion-dollar budget deficit. Advocates of treatment-not-incarceration call on voters to get a head start by passing Proposition 5 on November 4.
Margaret [...]
La medida salvará vidas y ahorrará billones de dólares.
Para Publicación Inmediata: 31 de octubre de 2008 [...]
Measure will save lives and billions of dollars.
For Immediate Release: October 31, 2008 [...]
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30 - The current and former governors of California today announced their opposition to Proposition 5, the Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act, just days before the election and two weeks before a federal court trial that is expected to result in a federal takeover of the state prison system.
Prop. 5 supporters say the [...]
LOS ANGELES, October 29 – California’s prison guards’ union has provided most of the money lined up against Proposition 5, a drug treatment measure that would reduce prison overcrowding and forestall $2.5 billion worth of new prison construction.
Today the Yes on 5 campaign struck back with a new TV spot that highlights the prison [...]
SACRAMENTO, October 28 – With the budget deficit worsening and prison overcrowding reaching crisis levels, voters are looking for an affordable and effective alternative. Proposition 5 builds on California’s proven treatment-instead-of-incarceration programs for nonviolent drug offenders. According to the nonpartisan legislative analyst, Prop. 5 will expand access to proven treatment programs and cut state costs. [...]
LOS ANGELES, October 27, 2008 – Amid the state budget crisis and financial market meltdown, voters are anxious about ballot measures that will cost the state money. There’s only one measure on the November ballot that will actually cut state costs, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO). That’s Proposition 5.
Cost-cutting is the theme [...]
LOS ANGELES, October 24, 2008 – Supporters of Proposition 5, the Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act, today unveiled two new TV spots intended to begin running statewide next week.
Both Yes on 5 spots highlight the measure’s drug treatment programs for young people. If passed, Prop. 5 would provide $65 million per year to counties to [...]
LOS ANGELES, October 22 – The ills of California’s prison system have been diagnosed in one expert report after another, but the prescriptions for change have been ignored. Now, with Proposition 5, voters have the opportunity to enact a range of reforms recommended by experts that would reduce overcrowding and improve rehabilitation.
Dan Macallair, executive [...]
SACRAMENTO, October 21 – President George W. Bush’s drug czar today announced his opposition to Proposition 5, the Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act (NORA), which will expand access to drug treatment for young people and nonviolent offenders – and make rehabilitation a priority of the state corrections system once again.
“The drug czar is going against the [...]
SACRAMENTO, October 20 – The California Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM) has endorsed Proposition 5, the Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act. The association of physicians specializing in addiction treatment will be discussing the measure at their annual gathering in Newport Beach this week. Prop. 5 would significantly expand access to drug treatment for young people, nonviolent [...]
LOS ANGELES, July 30 - An effort by opponents to remove Proposition 5 from the ballot was rebuffed today by the California Supreme Court.
It’s official! This week Secretary of State Debra Bowen certified NORA for the Nov. 4, 2008, ballot.
Click here for her press release [PDF download].
The Secretary of State found that NORA supporters had turned in 761,183 total voter signatures, with an overall requirement that 433,971 signatures had to be found valid.
