SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A new state audit found inconsistencies in the state-funded program for rehabilitating and housing convicted felons, also known as the Conditional Release Program (CONREP) for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several women from the group Your Voice has Power, stand outside San Diego Superior Court in protest of a a decision to ...

Public opposition is making it difficult to reintroduce sexually violent predators into California communities even though they have undergone post-prison treatment that makes them much less likely to ...

Old Highway 80 is shown as it runs through Jacumba Hot Springs on March 9, 2021. California has placed more sex offenders in Jacumba than any other community in the state. (File photo by Zoë ...

LOS ANGELES — Diane Swick has lived in Juniper Hills for over 20 years and said she’s always felt safe in the rural community pushed up against the northern slope of the San Gabriel Mountains, ...

A new state audit of a program that monitors the release of sexually violent predators after treatment suggests looking into the feasibility of creating group homes, a sort of waystation while they ...

An audit of the Department of State Hospitals’ Sexually Violent Predator Conditional Release Program found that costs are rising and placement options remain limited. The program is meant to safely ...

Public opposition is making it difficult to reintroduce sexually violent predators into California communities even though they have undergone post-prison treatment that makes them much less likely to ...

State hospital officials have recommended placing a man designated as a sexually violent predator into a home in Poway, it was announced Wednesday. Merle Wade Wakefield, 67, has been recommended by ...

A judge approved the conditional release Friday for a man classified as a sexually violent predator to a home in Campo. State hospital officials recently recommended releasing Alan Earl James, 61, to ...

Since 2003, the California Department of State Hospitals has paid a vendor around $93 million to oversee the release of 56 sexually violent predators — an average cost of about $1.6 million per ...