Locking up a California state prisoner for one year costs nearly twice as much as tuition at the state’s top private universities. The number surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, and remains high because of inmate medical costs and pay boosts for prison guards and other workers.

A proposed California law that is part of a larger package of gun control bills would allow the attorney general to sue gun manufacturers over marketing practices.

California has twice extended the statute of limitations on child sex abuse claims, prompting nine state Catholic bishops to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to declare the law unconstitutional.