You got to take care of yourself. If I exercise or I eat proper foods, am I indulging myself? That's called feeding your body.

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

When you expand your ability to see, you understand that there are a lot of false choices being offered.

Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead.

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.