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March
2002
 Substance Abuse And Crime
Prevention Act Of 2000 Progress
Report
California's Proposition 36, the
Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000 (SACPA), took
effect on July 1, 2001. Since that date, SACPA has been diverting
low-level, non-violent drug offenders convicted solely of
possession for personal use into community-based treatment instead
of incarceration. While it is too early to determine the ultimate
success of this program, this preliminary progress report
describes how the state and the largest counties are implementing
this initiative.
Early indications suggest that
SACPA is being implemented well in most of the state, and that the
initiative is on the path to fulfill its promise to the voters to
reduce the rates of drug addiction and crime by diverting
offenders to drug treatment, and will save California taxpayers
many millions of dollars by reducing our states jail and prison
populations. 
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