While California voters just rolled back some criminal justice reforms and ousted progressive prosecutors, even advocates for ...

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

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

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

Californians voted down Proposition 6, a ballot measure that eliminates the state’s constitutional provision that allows ...

The measure would have amended the state’s constitution to repeal language that allows involuntary servitude as a form of ...

"All the people in prison that I know want to work. We just want to do it on our own terms," writes Steve Brooks.

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 ...

The overwhelmingly popular amendment makes the theft of items worth $950 or less a felony rather than a misdemeanor in ...