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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

Vice President Kamala Harris frequently touted her prosecutorial bona fides on the campaign trail, probably sensing political ...

Mayors Matt Mahan of San Jose and Todd Gloria of San Diego were leading voices in support of Proposition 36. California still ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom strongly opposed Proposition 36. He claims it will bring California back to the 1980s when mass ...