California Proposition 13

death penalty nationwide, the state has carried out only 13 executions; in fact, the first occurred in 1992, an astonishing 16 years after the Supreme Court decision (“State by State”). The death penalty in California is a highly controversial issue and the topic of heated debate, especially in state government. Political decisions regarding capital punishment in California reflect the state’s divided stance on it. Although voters in California recently made a democratic effort to resolve the issues

California offers many different forms of early childhood education. There are privately funded preschools that are aimed towards upper-class families that can pay for their children to attend preschool. There are also publicly funded preschools, such as Head Start, that are designed for low-income families so that their children can attend preschool at no cost to the parents. However, there still are many middle-class families who have children that don't attend preschool because they can’t afford

Introduction The purpose of the following paper is to explain California’s Proposition 21. This writer will explain the pros and cons about this proposition; as well as what voters voted for when they chose “yes” for this proposition. Research will be done in order to explain what the reasoning for Proposition 21, and the changes that occurred when it enacted in the State of California. The following information will be provided as well; prosecution of juveniles in adult court, juvenile incarceration

California Proposition 215 For many years in the past, marijuana has been made to look like a dangerous drug, linked to crime and addiction. In the early 1920s and ‘30s most people still did not know what marijuana was or had even heard of it yet. Those who had heard of it were largely uninformed. The drug rarely appeared in the media, but when it did it was linked to crime and even thought to be murder-inducing. A 1929 article in the Denver Post reported a Mexican-American man who murdered his

With California jails and prisons still struggling with finding a reform for non-violent drug offenders the states recidivism rates continue to reach unprecedented numbers. Between 1983 and 1998, drug admissions to state and federal prisons increased sixteen-fold, from over 10,000 drug admissions in 1983 to almost 167,000 new prison entries for drug offenses in 1998 (Worrall et al, 2009). This has been a direct result of our legal system incarcerating offenders who have substance abuse related

Brown v. Plata (2011) In the 2011 case of Brown v. Plata Judge Kennedy stated that the prisons in California were beyond overcrowded which lead to lack of proper medical and mental health care, which violated the cruel and unusual clause of the Eight Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (Brown v. Plata, 2011, 1). It stated that California prisons were built to house approximately 80,000 inmates but by the times it went to the Supreme Court it had nearly doubled the original number (Newman and Scott

golfer, there are so many techniques and skills to master. Even the slightest movement can change your hit from hitting it straight onto the green to slicing the ball into the trees. There are very few that are masters at this sport. In Los Angeles, California there are 10 golf courses, while in Oxford, Ohio there is only one. These amount of golf courses can correlate to many events. Spatiotemporal is relating to space and time qualities. There are several spatiotemporal arguments against the private

the Public School Facility Bonds Proposition 51 appeared on the ballots for Californians to vote either for or against the issuing of $9 billion toward constructing and improving school facilities for K-12 schools along with community colleges. Proposition 51 aims to split these funds amongst public schools, charter schools, technical education facilities, and community colleges in an effort to modernize California’s school facilities for the better. This proposition was the first education bond to

The last substantial storm, “Pineapple Express” that affected California was in mid-December of 2014(Fritz, 2014). Nobody knew whether the snowpack or the rainfall would proceed similarly to end the record three year natural, yet “man-made” drought. Costal elites of California invested of all their money and time to build dams, repositories, and trenches in the 1970s but the situation took a complete turn in the last four years. During the first year of the drought, fights about water were basically

Proposition 62: Repeal of the Death Penalty In my lifetime alone, same sex marriage has been legalized, the use of marijuana has been legalized and technology has advanced so substantially that we are always connected, allowing news and ideas to spread quickly throughout the nation. In the last 10 years more than ever, I feel that the Constitution and its ideas have been questioned. It seems we’ve realized that a list of rules written over 200 years ago are becoming arbitrary. More specifically