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Ahead of Proposition 36 vote, state data show most arrested for retail theft are cited and released

No one — not the Governor's Office, the CHP Retail Crime Task Force, nor California's Attorney General — can tell us how many people arrested for retail theft this year were actually sentenced, let alone how many went to jail, received treatment, or re-offended. State data indicate most of the people arrested by the Task Force were cited and released.
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