California voters in all 58 counties approved Proposition 36, known as the "Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction ...

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 ...

Benicia Police arrested two suspects, Markquell Herbert Cain and Keonnie Marie Carr, for a theft along Columbus Parkway.

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

Proposition 36 supporters Abby Reisig, left, and Garrett Hamilton, wearing a “make crime illegal again” shirt, talk before results are announced during an Election Night party at Zócalo in ...

A fourth conviction can send a criminal to state prison. “And so I support Prop. 36 because it brings back things that we used to have in the past like … being able to put teeth into theft ...