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  • report thumbnail California may take a big step backwards towards more incarceration with Proposition 36 Prison Policy Initiative, October, 2025“[California's Prop 36, which was approved by voters in the November 2024 elections,] is projected to fully undo hard fought progress made in reducing California's prison population.”
  • Paying for One's Own Incarceration: National Landscape of "Pay-to-Stay" Fees Campaign Zero, June, 2025“48 states allow for the imposition of at least one category of pay-to-stay fees; only the states of California and Illinois have repealed fees for all categories in state correctional facilities.”
  • Climate and the Impact on CDCR California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, June, 2025“In 2024, the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) adopted a new indoor heat standard specific to all indoor work areas...State and local detention facilities were excluded from those regulations.”
  • Contracted to Fail: How Flat-Fee Contracts Undermine the Right to Counsel in California The Wren Collective, March, 2025“Eight of the ten counties with the highest incarceration rates in [California] rely on flat-fee contracts, including all of the top five...contract systems result in deeply problematic outcomes.”
  • Who Benefits from Automatic Record Relief in California? California Policy Lab, October, 2024“We estimate nearly 70% of people with a conviction between 2010-2021 are eligible to have all convictions and non-convictions automatically relieved, leaving them with no remaining criminal record.”
  • Implementing the Medicaid Reentry Waiver in California Key Policy and Operational Insights from 11 Counties Justice System Partners, October, 2024“Most people detained in [California] jail will meet the Medi-Cal eligibility criteria. Counties estimate that approximately 80% of detainees will meet the additional CalAIM JI [pre-release Medicaid] health criteria.”
  • The Second Look Movement: A Review of the Nation's Sentence Review Laws Sentencing Project, May, 2024“In addition to California, four states - Illinois, Minnesota, Oregon, and Washington - have enacted prosecutor-initiated resentencing laws that allow prosecutors to request the court to reconsider a sentence.”
  • A Decade of Lives Lost: A report of in-custody deaths in California between 2011-2022 Care First California, February, 2024“Of the 2,312 deaths that occurred in Sheriff's custody across California, the majority of people died after they were taken to jail but before the resolution of their case...Nearly a quarter of deaths occurred before individuals entered the jail.”
  • report thumbnail Going back to Cali: Revisiting California's parole release system Prison Policy Initiative, December, 2023“From 2019 to 2022, California's actual parole grant rate fell 29%...Ultimately, nearly 3,000 more hearings resulted in only 75 more people being released in 2022 compared to 2019.”
  • Emergency Medical Responses at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Centers in California Annette M. Dekker et al, November, 2023“We found that EMS-reported medical emergencies were disproportionately for females at the Otay Mesa Detention Center, with 12% of all EMS-reported emergencies for female patients due to pregnancy concerns.”
  • Guilt by Association: How Police Databases Punish Black and Latinx Youth Andy Ratto, Nina Loshkajian, Eleni Manis, PhD, MPA, Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP), September, 2023“California [made] an effort to open the rolls of CalGang after a 2016 audit revealed egregious errors in the database. And the errors were appalling--42 babies under one-year-old were falsely listed in CalGang.”
  • Great Weight: A Review of California Board of Parole Hearings Transcripts to Assess Frequency and Consideration of Intimate Partner Violence among Women Convicted of Homicide Offenses Stanford Criminal Justice Center at Stanford Law School, June, 2023“[By reviewing] over 140 parole hearing transcripts...we found that approximately 23% of women incarcerated for homicide in California are serving time for a crime directly linked to their experience of intimate partner violence.”
  • Systemic Failures: Conditions in California State Prisons During the Covid-19 Pandemic Prison Accountability Project at UCLA School of Law, June, 2023“According to respondents, the [California Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation] ignored over 80 percent of incarcerated people's requests for medical care and failed to protect people with pre-existing conditions from COVID-19.”
  • Breaking Ground: How California is Using Medicaid to Improve the Health of People Leaving Incarceration Health and Reentry Project, May, 2023“Incarcerated adults who are enrolled in Medi-Cal and meet specific criteria and all Medi-Cal/CHIP-enrolled youth in youth correctional settings will qualify for Medi-Cal pre-release services.”
  • The California Parole Board's Treatment of Transgender Individuals UCLA Williams Institute, April, 2023“Approximately 43% (16 out of 37 with relevant data) of parole hearings for transgender individuals included misgendering and/or insensitive or biased comments.”
  • Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Arrests in California Public Policy Institute of California, February, 2023“California experienced persistent declines of 5 percent for felony arrests and 40 percent for misdemeanor arrests until at least July 2021--resulting in a rare near-convergence of these two arrest types.”
  • From Crisis to Care: Ending the Health Harm of Women's Prisons Human Impact Partners, February, 2023“The state of California invests $405 million a year in its women's prisons...[it] has the opportunity to invest that money in health-promoting support systems that people can access in their own communities.”
  • Pretrial Electronic Monitoring in San Francisco Alissa Skog and Johanna Lacoe, California Policy Lab, November, 2022“The use of pretrial EM increased more than twenty-fold between 2017 and 2021.”
  • Coming Up Short: The Unrealized Promise of In Re Humphrey UCLA School of Law and UC Berkeley Law, October, 2022“The California Supreme Court ruled...that setting bail at an amount that a person cannot afford to pay is unconstitutional...18 month after it was decided, [Humphrey] remains unmet.”
  • Reimagining Community Safety in California: From Deadly and Expensive Sheriffs to Equity and Care-Centered Wellbeing Catalyst California, October, 2022“For the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, 88.8% of officer time spent on stops (25,269 hours) was for officer-initiated stops rather than in response to a call for service, which accounted for only 11.2% (3,189 hours) of officer time spent on stops.”
  • Racial equity in eligibility for a clean slate under automatic criminal record relief laws Paywall :( Alyssa C. Mooney, Alissa Skog, and Amy E. Lerman, August, 2022“In California, one in five people with convictions met criteria for full conviction relief under the state's automatic relief laws. Yet the share of Black Americans eligible for relief was lower than White Americans...”
  • Three Strikes in California Mia Bird et al., California Policy Lab, August, 2022“Nearly 65% of admissions to prison with a doubled-sentence enhancement [under the Three-Strikes law] are for a non-violent, non-serious offense.”
  • report thumbnail Where people in prison come from: The geography of mass incarceration in California Prison Policy Initiative and Essie Justice Group, August, 2022“Some areas of federally recognized tribal land -- including the Fort Mojave Reservation and Big Valley Rancheria -- have imprisonment rates more than five times the imprisonment rate of Los Angeles.”
  • The Cost of Solitary Confinement: Why Ending Isolation in California Prisons Can Save Money and Save Lives Berkeley Underground Scholars and Immigrant Defense Advocates, July, 2022“This report estimates the Mandela Act would save, at a minimum, an estimated $61,129,600 annually based on a conservative estimate of the costs associated with solitary confinement.”
  • Waiting for Relief: A National Survey of Waiting Periods for Record Clearing Margaret Love and David Schlussel, Collateral Consequences Resources Center, February, 2022“The waiting periods for felony convictions range from as high as 10 or 20 years in North Carolina to as low as 0-2 years in California, with most states falling at the lower end of that range.”

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