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Prop. 36 pledges to send more people convicted of drug possession to treatment instead of prison. Behavioral health directors say that’s easier said than done with workforce shortages across the state.
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Involuntary servitude is prohibited in California’s Constitution except as punishment for a crime. Prop 6 would remove that exception.
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A bill before Gov. Gavin Newsom would make the nation’s most wide-ranging changes to solitary confinement.
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A bill that passed the Assembly would create a “community campus” on prison grounds where inmates cook their own food and secure jobs before their release.
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Lawmakers advance a California gun control bill to allow citizens to sue manufacturers and distributors over illegal and “ghost” weapons.
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The United States has five percent of the world's population, but twenty-five percent of its prison inmates. The state of Oregon mirrors the national…