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

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

Ecuador's prisons have become among the deadliest in Latin America as overcrowding, corruption and weak state control have ...

Traces of black soot still mark the facade of the Regina Coeli jail, a reminder of the latest riots in Rome's infamous ...

Murder charges will be filed against at least nine inmates at Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, which has seen riots and ...

Ecuador prison violence kills at least 15 people and injures 14 - Local media reported helicopters could be seen flying over ...

In 2014, California voters approved Proposition 47, which reduced certain nonviolent crimes from felonies to misdemeanors ...

This electoral trend toward orderly urbanism was most stark in ultraliberal San Francisco. Fifty-eight percent of voters ...

Three days after the historic election, the results of only a couple of state ballot measures were out as of Friday. The ...

Voters in the Democratic-run state overwhelmingly approved a measure to impose harsher sentences for crimes and were on their ...