California voters decided in November that they wanted to celebrate the holidays and ring in the new year by locking up criminals who are finding out the hard way that their get-out-of-jail-free cards have been revoked.

California voters defied the pro-criminal sympathies of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and other leading state Democrats to pass Proposition 36, which, among other things, allowed prosecutors once again to hit repeat shoplifters and thieves with felony charges and repealed the terrible California law that made shoplifting a slap-on-the-wrist misdemeanor if the criminal took under $950 in merchandise in each shoplifting spree.