The battle lines are being drawn in a bitter feud between centrist Democrats and progressives in California over changes to Proposition ... calling it an "expensive" crime reform that would ...

Voters this November overwhelmingly approved Proposition 36, which both modifies and adds key changes to California law ... exploded due to tough-on-crime policies dating back to the 1980s.

California Stiffened Penalties for Theft — and More Changes Are Coming Californians ... s prison population exploded due to tough-on-crime policies dating back to the 1980s.

Ten years ago, California voters passed Prop 47 to downgrade the possession of hard drugs from a felony to a misdemeanor, then continued to pass soft-on-crime proposals aimed at reinventing the ...

Californians have gone back and forth on crime and punishment ... to misdemeanors. Those changes are now up for reconsideration with Prop. 36. So while California didn’t simply open its prison ...

Los Angeles County prosecutors must speed up the filing of felony charges against persons accused of sex crimes or violence against family members, according to a new policy announcement Thursday.

A new national survey shows some major California ... violent crime rose year-over-year in some categories but fell in others. Officials in San Jose attributed the changes to a new reporting ...

California experienced a slight increase in violent crime last year, according to the latest survey by the nonpartisan research group, Public Policy Institute of California. The institute analyzed ...

Then he tried to kill a citizens’ initiative that would make changes to Proposition ... to resign over the city's spiraling crime rate. More than 900,000 California voters signed petitions ...