Californians overwhelmingly rejected their state’s soft-on-crime policies, voting on Tuesday to increase penalties for various types of non-violent crimes, while also rejecting some other far-left measures.
Californians arriving at the polls on Tuesday faced a slew of ballot measures. One, Prop. 36, asked voters if they wanted to increase the criminal penalties for a series of non-violent crimes.
Prop 36 served to repeal 2014’s Prop. 47, which reduced numerous serious crimes, including multiple types of theft, fraud, and drug crimes, from felonies to misdemeanors.
Voters overwhelmingly supported harsher penalties, with 70.5 percent casting their ballots in favor of Prop. 36, allowing California prosecutors to begin prosecuting serious criminals as felons once again.
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Californians also rejected the opportunity to reduce the punishment of prison inmates.
Prop. 6 presented voters with an amendment to the state constitution.
The amendment would prevent prisons from giving inmates work assignments, forbid them from punishing inmates who refuse to work, and instead establish a program whereby inmates could volunteer for work in exchange for a reduced sentence.
Californians rejected the measure, with 54.4 percent voting no.
Voters in the deep-blue state also rejected an expansion of rent control, a measure to make it easier for cities to impose taxes to fund subsidized housing, and an increase in the state’s minimum wage from $16/hr to $18/hr, the highest in the nation.
Time to pay the piper .
Every good deed deserves another .
Lots of good paying jobs pouring concrete and building prisons .
Lots of good paying jobs for prison staff and guards .
Let’s get to it
Hope all in Maine are watching!