California has been at the vanguard of reducing prison population, and decriminalizing drug use, and so far the results look disastrous. That’s not a policy that needs any confusion to be unappealing.
but mostly a better chance of not going back to the sending state's prison.
California’s prison population has been stable since 2017.
13 of 35 state-owned facilities operate beyond capacity.
Source: https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-prison-populati...