Rehabilitating Corrections in California the Health Impacts of Proposition 47: Research Summary

This research summary is on the health impact assessment that is of California Proposition 47, the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, which would reclassify six nonserious, nonviolent offenses as misdemeanors; allow people incarcerated for those crimes to apply for lower sentences, release, and expungement; and redirect savings from a reduction in the incarcerated population to mental health and substance abuse programs, truancy and dropout prevention, and services for victims of violent crime.