California Prop 20 explained: Increased penalties for crime

Proposition 20 offers a mix of policies meant to make state laws tougher on crime.

If passed, there are three main things it would amend in the state constitution:

Increase penalties for some kinds of stealing
Make it harder for people to get out of prison on supervised release
Require the government to collect DNA samples in more criminal cases
Just six years ago, Californians voted to reduce punishments for some types of stealing. Voters set the bar at $950. If the crime is under the $950 level, the charges are usually petty theft and a misdemeanor. If the crime is more than $950, it could mean felony charges.

[PsychicReverendDonnaSeraphina]

I am all for fighting crime but the fact that we have more people in prison per capita than China Russia and Iran combined says that America is way over doing it on the locking people in prison thing

[stanmnews]

Organized shoplifting like the kind where certain groups of young people walk into Apple & Gucci stores and brazenly tear products off their security wires and snatch purses off of shelves??