The sentencing reform measure allows for treatment instead of jail, but counties are short on resources. The Legislature must ...

California’s Proposition 36, passed by voters in 2024, is rapidly becoming the crisis many predicted—a costly, unfunded ...

Critics of Prop. 36 say the law makes simple drug possession a felony, dramatically increasing costs to taxpayers for ...

THE VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN, AND WE ARE COMMITTED TO FUND AND TO IMPLEMENT PROPOSITION 36. CALIFORNIA STATE SENATORS ON TUESDAY HELD THIS SPECIAL HEARING ON CALIFORNIA’S NEW CRIME MEASURE ...

A little over two months in, the treatment portion of California’s new tough-on-crime law has been applied unevenly. Proposition 36 introduced a treatment option for certain repeat drug ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California lawmakers are trying to make sure there's enough money to pay the costs of Prop. 36, which reinstated felony sentences and prison time for some repeat theft and ...

Less than two months after the new law went into effect, drug cases filed in court outnumber theft cases by 3 to 1.

Last November voters passed Proposition 36, making it, in some cases, a felony when committing retail theft, rather than just ...

Moderate Democrats like Umberg joined California Republicans and district attorneys throughout the state last year in supporting Proposition 36, believing that some of Prop. 47’s sentencing ...