California's property crime rate has fallen to historic lows, despite claims from supporters of Prop. 36 that the measure was ...

Without funding, Prop. 36 risks becoming another well-intentioned but under-resourced reform. Small businesses are the backbone of our communities, providing essential services, jobs, and ...

Tinisch Hollins, executive director of Californians for Safety and Justice, criticized California’s Prop 36 in a recent interview, calling it a “solution to a problem that didn’t exist.” Despite voter ...

Prosecutors are holding repeat offenders to a tougher standard the voters allowed when they passed Proposition 36.

A man on post-release supervision was arrested last Thursday after probation officers said they found a handgun, suspected ...

5) Who opposes Prop. 36? Opponents of Prop. 36 include the ACLU of Northern and Southern California, the Democratic Party and a wide range of groups that advocate for criminal justice reform and ...

Prop. 36 is poised to do substantial harm to individuals, families, and communities. Raiding the Prop. 47 grant program to pay for Prop. 36 would deepen that harm.

And some groups that were crucial to qualifying Prop 36 for the ballot are now questioning how involved they want to be in the measure’s future, or whether they want to be involved at all.

Prop 36 aims to force drug offenders into treatment. That’s yet to happen in these Bay Area counties Prosecutors fault a shortage of treatment options for stifling new law.

Early signs—including more than 1,000 felony theft arrests under Prop. 36—show that this law can deliver on those promises. But only if we give it the resources needed to succeed.

Prop. 36 is poised to do substantial harm to individuals, families, and communities. Raiding the Prop. 47 grant program to pay for Prop. 36 would deepen that harm.

Prop. 36 simply pointed to two existing funding streams as a source of treatment dollars: 1) Proposition 47 grants, which reinvest the prison savings generated by a 2014 law easing penalties on ...