but it lost support after it was determined that it would cost California an estimated $1.5 billion a year to pay minimum wage to prisoners. Proposition 6, which was authored by Assemblywoman Lori ...

California voters have rejected Proposition 5, which would have lowered votes needed to pass city and county bond measures for local infrastructure and housing bonds to 55%. According to results ...

Proposition 6 saw the second-least campaign spending among the 10 statewide initiatives on the ballot this year, about $1.9 million, according to the California Secretary of State’s office.

California voters rejected Proposition 6, a measure that would have banned forced labor in jails and prisons. The Associated Press called the race Sunday evening. Prop 6 was failing 46%-54% Monday ...

Many election contests in California are not final as ballots are still being counted, but it appears that Proposition 5, which would have made it easier to raise property taxes, is going down in ...

(AP) - California voters have rejected a measure amending ... People who are incarcerated are often paid less than $1 an hour to fight fires, clean cells and do landscaping work at cemeteries.

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They instead point to the well-funded, corporate-backed campaign behind Prop 36 that distorted facts, and the complicity of media outlets eager to paint a picture of an unsafe California and echo ...