Criminal justice policy advocates caution against viewing the election results as a referendum against reform.

Ahead of the 2025 legislative session, GOP lawmakers are already focusing on Amendment 3, which 51.6% of voters approved, and ...

Californians voted down Proposition 6, a ballot measure that eliminates the state’s constitutional provision that allows ...

The measure would have amended the state’s constitution to repeal language that allows involuntary servitude as a form of ...

"All the people in prison that I know want to work. We just want to do it on our own terms," writes Steve Brooks.

Efforts to resist the proposals would mark a continuation of Republican attempts to curtail direct democracy in Missouri as ...

Yadira Caraveo underperformed in Adams County. Donald Trump won Pueblo County. Proposition 131 received the third fewest “yes ...

California lawmakers agreed to put Proposition 6 on the ballot at the urging of criminal justice advocates. Since 2018, at ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The results from the California's 10 propositions continue to come in and recently, Proposition 6 failed. It was meant to ban forced prison labor and advocates behind the measure ...

Other states, including Nevada, are deleting references to slavery in their constitutions and banning forced prison labor. California voters rejected that path when they turned down Prop. 6.

Additionally, all three St. Louis County propositions – Proposition A, Proposition C and Proposition O – passed. Missouri ...

The West Coast state has decided to keep slavery legal, allowing prisons and jails across California to force involuntary ...