Crime has been a see-saw issue in California for most of the last 40 years. Leniency was the vogue for awhile recently. But ...

Criminal justice policy advocates caution against viewing the election results as a referendum against reform.

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

Californians took the law into their own hands this Election Day, using their collective voice to shut down the soft-on-crime ...

Drugs, crime, and homelessness are just a few reasons California voters say Gavin Newsom has failed them in office. His ...

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

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

California voters overwhelmingly voted in favor of Prop 36 on Tuesday, which rolled back key provisions of Proposition 47, ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The results from the California's 10 propositions continue to come in and recently, Proposition 6 failed. It was meant to ban forced prison labor and advocates behind the measure ...

Proposition 36 aimed to restore the damage from the 2014 Proposition 47, which reduced some felonies ... As Katy Grimes of the California Globe notes, Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative Democrats ...