How does Prop. 5 affect public health?
Prop. 5 will reduce the number of nonviolent offenders entering California prisons each year with effective diversion programs and by ending the parole system’s practice of cycling nonviolent offenders in and out of prisons for minor violations. These changes will mean less overcrowding, better opportunities for rehabilitation, and decreased transmission of disease—diseases that are currently exacerbated by the overcrowding crisis and are spread to the community at large when incarcerated people return home.
