California's reentry programs cut recidivism by 44% for women and 34% for men—proving rehabilitation works better than ...

Unlike schools in most states, however, California public colleges and universities have been prohibited from using affirmative action in college admissions since Proposition 209 was adopted in 1996.

California doesn’t have to choose between public safety and criminal justice reform Supporters of Proposition 36 at a news conference in Venice in September.

Four years after nationwide calls for a reimagining of the criminal justice system, voters dramatically reversed course on Tuesday night. California voters passed Proposition 36, a tough-on-crime ...

In the rush to make sense of those results, several headlineshaveposited that California is backing away from criminal justice reform and returning to the tough-on-crime policies of the 1990s.

On Thursday, Harmeet Dhillon, the Justice Department’s top civil rights attorney, said in a letter to Michael V. Drake, the president of the University of California system, that she was focused ...

SACRAMENTO, California — California voters dealt a blow to the state’s decade-long experiment with progressive criminal justice reform by approving a tough-on-crime ballot measure and ousting ...

DETROIT — Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday declined to say how she voted on a key ballot measure in her home state of California that would reverse criminal justice reforms approved in ...

The Justice Department is investigating four California universities over possible 'illegal DEI' in admissions. The universities say they do not illegally consider race when accepting students.

Is there really a meaningful difference between one offender who is 17 years old and one who is 18 if the crimes are the same ...