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Illustration by Hokyoung Kim/CalMattersProp. 36 pledges to send more people convicted of drug possession to treatment instead of prison. Behavioral health directors say that鈥檚 easier said than done with workforce shortages across the state. -
Jae C. Hong/AP PhotoInvoluntary servitude is prohibited in California鈥檚 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鈥檚 most wide-ranging changes to solitary confinement. -
A bill that passed the Assembly would create a 鈥渃ommunity campus鈥� on prison grounds where inmates cook their own food and secure jobs before their release. -
Lawmakers advance a California gun control bill to allow citizens to sue manufacturers and distributors over illegal and 鈥済host鈥� weapons. -
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鈥�
