A new crime-fighting ballot measure offers tools to get help for people with addiction, District Attorney Summer Stephan says ...

In addition to reclassifying some misdemeanor crimes to felonies, Proposition 36 also opens the door to pushing defendants ...

The passing of Proposition 36 and ousting of two progressive D.A.s suggest Californians may be reverting on criminal justice ...

He’ll get off to a quick stary by ending the ban on adding gang- and gun-enhancement charges to crimes and other Gascón ...

There appears to be no limit to the hubris of Governor Gavin Newsom. While the state continues to suffer from failed ...

California passed Proposition 36 — a tough-on-crime measure that imposes harsher sentences on low-level offenses like drug ...

Results and research show even in one of the nation’s most progressive states, voters do not fully embrace the politics of ...

The biggest funder in support of Prop 36 was Walmart, according to a Los Angeles Times investigation tracking the money on ...

Criminal justice policy advocates caution against viewing the election results as a referendum against reform.

Crime has been a see-saw issue in California for most of the last 40 years. Leniency was the vogue for awhile recently. But ...

County officials say they have cut inmate numbers by 14% over the past year, yet jails still operate at up to 145% capacity.

Los Angeles County officials say they have cut inmate numbers by 14% over the past year, yet jails still operate at up to 145 ...