Even Californians are tired of soft-on-crime policies

Californians overwhelmingly rejected their state’s softening crime policies and voted Tuesday to increase penalties for several types of nonviolent crimes while rejecting some other far-left measures.

Californians who went to the polls on Tuesday faced a range of ballot measures. One, Proposition 36, asked voters whether they wanted to increase criminal penalties for a range of nonviolent crimes.

Prop. 36 served to repeal 2014’s Prop. 47, which reduced numerous serious crimes, including multiple types of theft, fraud and drug crimes, from felonies to misdemeanors.

Voters overwhelmingly favored harsher punishments, with 70.5 percent voting for Prop. 36, which would allow California prosecutors to once again prosecute serious criminals as felons.

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The Californians also rejected the possibility of reducing sentences for prison inmates.

Proposition 6 presented voters with an amendment to the state constitution.

The change would prevent prisons from giving inmates work assignments, prohibit them from punishing inmates who refuse to work, and instead establish a program where inmates could volunteer to work in exchange for a reduced sentence.

Californians rejected the measure, with 54.4 percent voting against it.

Voters in the deep blue state also rejected an expansion of rent control, a measure intended to make it easier for cities to raise taxes to fund subsidized housing, as well as an increase in the state’s minimum wage from $16 an hour to its highest of $18 per hour in the nation.