Californians for Safety and Justice, a nonprofit that seeks to reduce prison and jail spending, estimated that Prop. 36 will add 130,000 more people to California jails each year, about 100,000 of ...

A serial local thief was found guilty by a Butte County jury on Tuesday for stealing from Home Depot due to the new Prop 36 law. Hugh Alfred Johnson, 42, of Oroville, was one of the first ones to be ...

Last year’s Proposition 36, which increased penalties on certain drug and property offenses, did so by convincing millions of voters that their initiative would help those struggling with ...

The County’s latest report, outlining significant jail population growth since Prop. 36 went into effect, suggests the closure may not be happening any time soon, if at all.

At least one part of Prop 36 has been applied to a criminal case in Lassen County. Last week,  Susanville woman with a ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (CN) — On July 29, 2020, Frederick Inea Regal, a 40-year-old inmate in the Santa Clara County jail system, was found by officers in his cell, hanging by his own bedsheets, less than ...

Californians for Safety and Justice, a nonprofit that seeks to reduce prison and jail spending, estimated that Prop. 36 will add 130,000 more people to California jails each year, about 100,000 of ...

The county reports the jail is now filling up due to Proposition 36 — which made serial theft and drug crimes into felonies — and that up to 40% of its inmates are so mentally ill they require ...

According to Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes, California doesn’t have a crisis in its jails, where record numbers of people have died even as the state’s jail population shrank. “Saying ...