California passed Proposition 36 — a tough-on-crime measure that imposes harsher sentences on low-level offenses like drug ...
Crime has been a see-saw issue in California for most of the last 40 years. Leniency was the vogue for awhile recently. But ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom strongly opposed Proposition 36. He claims it will bring California back to the 1980s when mass ...
A new crime-fighting ballot measure offers tools to get help for people with addiction, District Attorney Summer Stephan says ...
County officials say they have cut inmate numbers by 14% over the past year, yet jails still operate at up to 145% capacity.
36 say the measure will rectify some of the shortcomings of an earlier ballot initiative, Proposition 47. Approved by voters a decade ago, Prop. 47 sought to reduce California’s severe prison ...
The passing of Proposition 36 and ousting of two progressive D.A.s suggest Californians may be reverting on criminal justice ...
Mayors Matt Mahan of San Jose and Todd Gloria of San Diego were leading voices in support of Proposition 36. California still ...
In addition to reclassifying some misdemeanor crimes to felonies, Proposition 36 also opens the door to pushing defendants ...
As Katy Grimes of the California Globe notes, Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative Democrats had 10 years to deal with ...