Voters approved a measure to reverse progressive criminal reform and were positioned to reject propositions that hike the ...

Voters appear to be rejecting Proposition 6 in California, a measure to end involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime.

Three days after the historic election, the results of only a couple of state ballot measures were out as of Friday. The ...

Passed by an overwhelming majority of Golden State voters, Prop. 36 will implement harsher penalties for retail crime.

California is playing an outsized role in this election because of the battleground congressional districts that could define ...

The measure aims to make prison labor voluntary, following the lead of states across the country that have banned slavery in ...

This electoral trend toward orderly urbanism was most stark in ultraliberal San Francisco. Fifty-eight percent of voters ...

One of the critical jobs that prisoners can be required to work is fighting wildfires. While salaried firefighters in ...

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.

California has rejected a ballot measure that would have amended the state constitution to ban forced prison labor ...

Other states, including Nevada, are deleting references to slavery in their constitutions and banning forced prison labor.

The gap is the result of election officials in the two states choosing to emphasize different concerns and set different ...