More quick hits...

Fewer Drug Prisoners: A new study suggests California's voter-approved initiative to change the way drug crimes were treated resulted in fewer drug-convicted prisoners. The DC-based Justice Policy Institute, which advocates on behalf of non-prison crime solutions, says that there are now 34% fewer prisoners behind bars for drug-related crimes, the steepest decline nationwide in the past 5 years. California's approach to drug offenses changed, you'll remember, after voters approved Proposition 36 in 2000.

Hello, Blogosphere: Advisers to Governor Schwarzenegger took the case for fighting global warming to the newest opinion-makers this morning... bloggers. A conference call was convened this morning, for "blogs only", on the governor's new Climate Action Report. The report is the focus of a large event Schwarzenegger will convene today in San Francisco, and it calls for a number of measures to combat greenhouse gases and the resulting global warming. But if there were many bloggers on the call, you wouldn't know it. The only questions came from one blogger, and a fellow journalist at that, Dan Weintraub of the Sacramento Bee.