Californians voted down Proposition 6, a ballot measure that eliminates the state’s constitutional provision that allows ...

Proposition 6 would have banned the use of involuntary servitude as punishment for crimes. It was rejected by California ...

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

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

Two California residents are accused of stealing $2.1 million in COVID-19 jobless benefits using stolen identities of prison ...

People who are incarcerated are often paid less than $1 an hour to fight fires, clean cells and do landscaping work at ...

Anaheim will pay $5 million to Raul Sanchez who sued the city after losing his leg following a police shooting that came ...

California lawmakers agreed to put Proposition 6 on the ballot at the urging of criminal justice advocates. Since 2018, at ...

California voters have rejected a measure amending the state Constitution to ban forced labor in any form. The constitution ...

California voters rejected a ballot measure aimed at banning state prisons from using forced labor as a punishment for crimes ...

An incarcerated man at North Kern State Prison in Delano was killed Sunday, and three other inmates are suspects in his death, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reported Wednesday.

A California ballot proposition that would have amended the state constitution to ban forced prison labor has failed.