Sometimes plans made with the best intentions don’t pay off when you do the numbers.

The thing to do then is not to throw your hands up in despair, but to analyze what has gone wrong, and fix it.

Such is the case for California’s tough-on-crime ballot measure Proposition 36, passed last November as voters aimed to create what was called a “mass treatment” program for offenders convicted of certain kinds of drug crimes, with the intention of reducing other crimes and helping with anti-addiction efforts.

Problem is, the “mass” part hasn’t been very massive almost a year after its passage.

In a look at its implementation in the first six months since it took effect by the state’s Judicial Council, a report shows that about 9,000 people have been charged with what is termed a treatment-man

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