California’s parole board is using unreliable drug test results in decisions about releasing incarcerated people despite flaws that were exposed in a rash of false positives two years ago, more than a ...

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation maintains a list of books banned from circulation among the state’s 90,000 prisoners. The forbidden books include “The Handmaid’s Tale” by ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. A year after Californians voted for a conservative shift in criminal justice policy, they began to see the results.