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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 man designated as a sexually violent predator was approved by a judge Friday for conditional release to a home in Jacumba Hot Springs, marking the second SVP to be released to that property by the ...

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 ...