California just voted in harsher penalties despite low crime rates, thanks to TV news, a $16 million campaign, and a slow ...

It was in that context that California voters in 2014 approved Prop. 47, a ballot measure designed to reduce prison ...

Passed by an overwhelming majority of Golden State voters, Prop. 36 will implement harsher penalties for retail crime.

When California voters adopted the “three strikes” law in 1994, they accelerated a chain of events that ultimately led to unconstitutional state prison overcrowding and a federal court order ...

In addition to casting votes for the nation's next president and the state's next U.S. Senator, Californians will decide the ...

Harris also defied Supreme Court orders to reduce the overcrowding of California prisons, arguing that the justices lacked the authority to mandate the early release of low-risk prisoners.

A ballot measure that will roll back decade-old criminal justice policies in California and toughen penalties for some offenders was easily approved by voters Tuesday, but another effort to expand ...

Anyone recalled to prison has to be considered for release by the Parole Board before they can be freed again. – Will this solve the problems with overcrowding? No, it will only ease capacity problems ...

In an effort to reduce the city's prison population and provide individuals who, officials said, could be released without posing a threat to public security with a chance at freedom, 100 ...

The report from the Prison Overcrowding Response Group paints a stark picture of Ireland’s penal institutions. The desperately crowded conditions in many of the country’s 14 prisons pose a ...

The Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) has said the State must prioritise alternatives to the expansion of prisons to deal with overcrowding. A report released under a Freedom of Information request ...

drug abuse and homelessness — issues that have steadily risen as voter concerns — while detractors say it will not address the root of these crimes and lead to prison overcrowding. A similar ...