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LaNaisha Edwards was 15 when she started going to funerals in the mid-1990s. By her senior year, getting dressed for another memorial service “became the normal thing to do — sadly” in Los Angeles, she said. By September 2010, the plague of gun violence that destroyed other families hit too close to home. Her 24-year-old […] The post Reform Rollbacks May Lead to Another Rise in Mass Incarceration appeared first on Capital B News.

The former chair of the FEC has filed a complaint against a California congressman, alleging he excessively used campaign funds to support a "tough on crime" coalition seeking to roll back parts of Proposition 47.

Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire joined Gov. Gavin Newsom in saying he does not think the state needs to overhaul the 2014 ballot measure.

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer said Tuesday afternoon that efforts are underway to get rid of Prop 47 as he believes it has created more crime in the city than prevention. “As long as people feel that they can get away with a crime— vandalizing a business, stealing from that business, they’re […]

When voters made virtually all drug and theft crimes merely misdemeanors in 2014, they set in motion today’s crime sprees. A rebalancing is required.