The battle over an initiative that would divert drug offenders from prison into treatment and loosen state parole policies has intensified heading into Tuesday’s vote, with a bipartisan coalition of elected officials joining the state prison guards union to fight the measure.
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A quarter-century after the slaying of Marsalee Nicholas, a college student from Malibu, voters will consider an initiative launched in her name that would give a stronger voice to crime victims and their families, and impose harsher treatment on convicted killers.
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Dozens of newly minted Republican voters say they were duped into joining the party by a
GOP contractor with a trail of fraud complaints stretching across the country.
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The state’s well-heeled prison guards’ union is dropping its campaign to recall Gov.
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In the coalition pushing Proposition 6, an anti-crime initiative on the Nov.
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A federal judge today gave state officials nearly three weeks to explain how they will transfer $250 million to the overseer of medical care in state prisons.
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California Secretary of State Debra Bowen today rejected a petition submitted by the state prison guards’ union for a recall campaign against Gov.
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The state budget approved only weeks ago is already falling into the red, and lawmakers may be forced to return to Sacramento this month to make emergency spending cuts and take other measures to keep California from running out of cash.
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SAN FRANCISCO –
U. S. District Judge Thelton Henderson scolded state officials today for refusing to furnish $8 billion requested by the overseer of prison healthcare to improve the medical system in state lockups.
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In a state that has consistently boosted penalties for criminals, packing California’s prisons to bursting, sponsors of the far-reaching Proposition 5 are asking voters in November to go in the opposite direction.
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