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

Tessa Balc is a fourth year journalism and political science major. She also serves as news editor for The Point. Tessa is ...

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.

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.

Proposition 6’s ballot language did not explicitly include the word “slavery” like measures elsewhere, because the California Constitution was amended in the 1970s to remove an exemption for slavery.

President-elect Trump could ax a federal program that protects undocumented immigrants who are witnesses in workplace ...

This decision defies the expectation that California would join other states in abolishing this form of modern slavery. According to several outlets, 53.8 percent of voters said “no” to ending forced ...