Voters this November overwhelmingly approved Proposition 36, which both modifies and adds key changes to California ... exploded due to tough-on-crime policies dating back to the 1980s.

Ten years ago, California voters passed Prop 47 to downgrade the possession of hard drugs from a felony to a misdemeanor, then continued to pass soft-on-crime proposals aimed at reinventing the ...

The battle lines are being drawn in a bitter feud between centrist Democrats and progressives in California over changes to Proposition ... calling it an "expensive" crime reform that would ...

It’s the last month of the legislative session in California, and a few advocates ... that the current shift towards more tough-on-crime policies is a natural correction after criminal justice ...

Californians have gone back and forth on crime and punishment ... to misdemeanors. Those changes are now up for reconsideration with Prop. 36. So while California didn’t simply open its prison ...

Los Angeles County prosecutors must speed up the filing of felony charges against persons accused of sex crimes or violence against family members, according to a new policy announcement Thursday.

Like thousands of Californians every year, she turned for help to a state agency that was created to support survivors of crime. The California ... supervisor with the Policy Advocacy Clinic ...

Ruby Marichalar couldn't get an in-person meeting after ... to victims of crime to help them restore their lives.” Delaney Green, clinical supervisor with the Policy Advocacy Clinic at UC ...