Last month, a poll from the Public Policy Institute of California showed even stronger support for Prop. 36, with 71% of likely voters in that survey saying they’ll vote yes.

Still, it’s been popular with voters throughout election season. Friday’s poll results affirm two other surveys in September, which also show strong support for Prop 36. With

In California, Proposition 36 would add new penalties for drug and theft offenses and create new sentence enhancements. It seeks to amend Proposition 47, which passed in 2014 to alleviate overcrowding in jails.

California voters will decide on Proposition 36 in the November Election, put on the ballot by petition signatures."Prop 36 changes the law regarding theft, ret

Proposition 36, on the November ballot, would unwind portions of a 2014 initiative that reduced most shoplifting and drug possession offenses to misdemeanors that rarely carried jail time. The ballot measure comes as concerns about mass incarceration give way to public anger over property crime and a fentanyl crisis that has plagued the state since the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

One month before the election, a new poll finds 60% of California likely voters favor Proposition 36 to impose stiffer penalties for theft and drug crimes.

A majority of California voters are throwing their weight behind a November ballot measure that would impose stricter penalties for retail theft and crimes involving the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl,