<div>This summer, <p><a href="http://ivn.us/tag/california/" rel="noopener noreferrer">California</a> submitted a new initiative (<a href="http://www.cchi2014.org/fulltext.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">Californian Cannabis Hemp Initiative of 2014, 13-0013</a>) for ballot consideration that would d

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<div>Recently the state auditor's office published its <p><a href="http://www.bsa.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2013-601.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer">report</a> of "high-risk," low-accountability areas of state operations, released every other year. This year, realignment and corrections are evaluated separ

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<div><p><a href="http://ivn.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/jail-beds-california.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img alt="Crime Rates May Have Dropped, But Number of Life Sentences Rise" height="400" src="/sites/default/files/cloudinary/jail-beds-california.jpg" title="Crime Rates May Have Dropped, Bu

While Crime Rates Drop, Number of Life Sentences on the Rise

<div><p><a href="http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB649&amp;search_keywords=#" rel="noopener noreferrer">SB 649</a>, a bill introduced by California State Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), allows judges and prosecutors the discretion to shift drug posse

Assemblyman Tim Donnelly Crosses Party Lines to Support Drug Reform

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<div><p>Just a few months from the federally mandated deadline to reduce California's prison population by 137.5 percent capacity, Governor Jerry Brown released a&nbsp;plan to partner with private prisons and a correctional staff union. It would invest more than $700 million over the next two years 

LAO Says New Prison Realignment Plans Won't Work as Lawmakers Want

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Building New Jail Beds Not a Sustainable Realignment Solution, Officials Say

<div><p>Image Source: classroom.synonym.com</p><p>A March 2012 realignment <a href="http://curbprisonspending.org/?p=1391" rel="noopener noreferrer">report card</a>&nbsp;assigned a failing grade in realignment progress to the <a href="http://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/probation/docs/CCP-SanDiegoPublicSafet

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<div><p>In July, a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bscc.ca.gov/download.php?f=/Report_on_the_Implementation_of_Community_Corrections_Partnership_Plans.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer">comprehensive</a>, 58-county progress report was published by the Board of State and Community Corrections on California&nbsp

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Charlotte Dean

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