The Criminal and Judicial Branch portion of the Democratic governor’s budget, presented on Wednesday and subject to legislative approval, called for $13.6 billion for the California Department of ...

Faced with a $12 billion budget deficit for the upcoming fiscal year, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed substantial cuts to healthcare initiatives in a revised budget plan. The May Revision, ...

Proposition 36, a crime and drug treatment initiative passed by California voters, has been met with resistance from Governor ...

The sentencing reform initiatives calls for drug treatment as an alternative to more incarceration. Democrats appear in no ...

Fresno County officials are concerned that Governor Gavin Newsom’s May Revise did not include state funding for the ...

The parolee average daily population is projected to be 34,723 in 2024-25, declining slightly to 34,197 in 2025-26,” Newsom ...

California’s top prosecutors are urging legislators to fulfill the will of the people by funding the drug treatment that is a ...

He is being absolutely recalcitrant because the voters didn’t vote the way he wanted them to and the way he told them to,” said one Republican lawmaker.

Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed closing another prison in his revised budget proposal. Newsom didn’t specify which prison could be ...

California’s falling incarcerated population has allowed Gov. Gavin Newsom to close four state prisons. Now he’s calling for ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom said two factors are largely to blame for a $12 billion budget shortfall facing California: expanding ...