BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Proposition 36 Drug Treatment Program in Kern County welcomed its first ever graduate on Monday, according to a release from the Kern County District Attorney’s Office ...

COURTHOUSES ACROSS CALIFORNIA. AS OF DECEMBER 18TH OF 2024 SAW A CHANGE. THE WAY IN WHICH WE FILED DRUG POSSESSION CASES CHANGED DRASTICALLY. ALL BECAUSE OF MORE THAN 68% OF VOTERS. THE GOAL IS ...

This article was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2025 California Health Equity Fellowship. A tough-on-crime measure California voters overwhelmingly approved ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Proposition 36, the new state law tied to a decrease in retail theft, also offers a path forward for repeat drug offenders. "It takes people several times to quit once they ...

Sometimes plans made with the best intentions don’t pay off when you do the numbers. The thing to do then is not to throw your hands up in despair, but to analyze what has gone wrong, and fix it. Such ...

A tough-on-crime measure California voters overwhelmingly approved last year promised to usher in an “era of mass treatment” for the tens of thousands of homeless drug users across the state. But so ...

Early results show Prop 36 struggling with 'mass treatment' pledge for homeless drug offenders In the six months after the measure took effect in mid-December, Bay Area prosecutors filed roughly 600 ...