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Polly Stryker
Polly Stryker

Proposition 36 Coping With Significant Cuts

California's landmark Proposition 36 was intended to send drug users into treatment, rather than prison. The current budget slashed Prop. 36 funding almost in half. That complicates things for the Superior Court in Santa Clara County, where Judge Stephen Manley oversees Proposition 36 cases.Guest: Honorable Judge Stephen Manley, Santa Clara County Superior Court judge.


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