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"content": "\u003cp>After more than a year delving into history and studies to make its case for reparations to California descendants of enslaved Black people, a first-in-the-nation task force is meeting again for deliberations at Oakland City Hall on Wednesday and Thursday to quantify how financial compensation might be calculated and what might be required to prove eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversations on how to determine payments are in the early stages, with task force members acknowledging they have more questions than answers. Economists hired by the task force are seeking guidance on five harms experienced by Black people: \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-janice-hahn-a3e320018f6770e156c0862d12317ea5\">government taking of property\u003c/a>, devaluation of Black-owned businesses, housing discrimination and homelessness, mass incarceration and over-policing, and health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s task force met Wednesday at Oakland's City Hall. Oakland was the birthplace of the Black Panthers but has lost some of its African American population as rising home prices have forced people out.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Max Fennell, coffee company owner\"]'It's a debt that's owed. We worked for free. We're not asking. We're telling you.'[/pullquote]The task force must determine when each harm began and ended and who should be eligible for monetary compensation in those areas. For example, the group could choose to limit cash compensation to people incarcerated from 1970 — when more people started being imprisoned for drug-related crimes — to the present. Or they could choose to compensate everyone who lived in over-policed Black neighborhoods, even if they were not themselves arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force has a July 1 deadline to complete its final report for the Legislature listing recommendations for how the state can atone for and address its legacy of discriminatory policies against Black Californians. Lawmakers will need to pass legislation for payments and other policy changes to take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The work that you all are doing statewide will help us guide the same process through the entire state of California, because the harm is real,\" said Oakland City Council member Carroll Fife, who opened the meeting by welcoming the task force to Oakland. \"And the people here today to testify about that and the work that you all have done, collecting this robust set of suggestions to bring back to the state, is invaluable. It is literally priceless. And I'm grateful for your work. I'm grateful for your participation. And I look forward to accountability when this gets back to our legislators so that we can have real action. Thank you all for being here today. I appreciate you all. I appreciate your work. And welcome to Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11935326\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11935326\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Carol_Fife-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A black woman wearing a purple suit speaks behind a dais in a large hall with columns and press behind her.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Carol_Fife-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Carol_Fife-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Carol_Fife-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Carol_Fife-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Carol_Fife-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Carol_Fife-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Carol_Fife-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Council member Carroll Fife welcomes the California Reparations Task Force to Oakland on Dec. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the committee made the controversial decision to limit reparations to descendants of Black people in the United States as of the 19th century, either as freed or enslaved people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Task force member Monica Montgomery Steppe said Wednesday they need to take more time addressing time frames, payment calculations and residency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the foundation of all the other recommendations,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation in 2020 creating the task force, giving hope to reparations advocates who had despaired that anything might happen at the federal level. Since then, reparations efforts have bubbled up in cities and counties and at colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/politics-boston-slavery-government-and-6a5e36f746db813b2f42444e180be7b2\"> Boston City Council voted to form a task force to study reparations\u003c/a> and other forms of atonement to Black residents for the city’s role in slavery and its legacy of inequality. Lawmakers in other parts of the country have pushed their states and cities to study reparations, without much progress. But Evanston, Illinois, became the first U.S. city last year to make reparations available for Black residents, and public officials in New York will try anew to create a reparations commission in that state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 60 people attended Wednesday’s meeting, nodding in agreement as task force members spoke of the generational trauma suffered by Black children amid inaccurate and ongoing depictions of white families as ideal and Black families as not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Max Fennell, a 35-year-old coffee company owner, said that every person should get $350,000 in compensation to close the racial wealth gap and that Black-owned businesses should receive $250,000, which would help them to flourish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a debt that’s owed. We worked for free,\" he said. \"We’re not asking. We’re telling you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demnlus Johnson III, a Richmond City Council member, said it's remarkable that the issue is even being talked about publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to name a problem in order to address it,\" he said. “Of course we want to see it addressed now, the urgency is now, but just having it all aired out and put on the line is a major feat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the committee will make preliminary policy recommendations, such as audits of government agencies that deal with child welfare and incarceration with the aim of reducing disparities in how Black people are treated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group discussed how the state may address its impact on Black families whose property was seized through eminent domain. The topic garnered renewed attention after lawmakers last year voted to return a beachfront property in Southern California known as \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-janice-hahn-a3e320018f6770e156c0862d12317ea5\">Bruce's Beach\u003c/a> to descendants of the Black residents who owned it until it was taken in the 20th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11935349\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11935349\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/IMG_9115-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"People of various races sit and listen in Oakland City Hall.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/IMG_9115-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/IMG_9115-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/IMG_9115-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/IMG_9115-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/IMG_9115-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/IMG_9115-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/IMG_9115-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">General view of the meeting with the Reparations Task Force, Dec. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officials from Oakland, Sacramento, Los Angeles and other California cities planned to present about local reparations efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That included Khansa T. Jones-Muhammad, vice chair of Los Angeles’ Reparations Advisory Commission, created last year under then-Mayor Eric Garcetti. The goal of that commission is to advise LA on a pilot program for distributing reparations to a group of Black residents, but it doesn't have a timeline set in stone for finishing its work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, economists started listing preliminary estimates for what could be owed by the state as a result of discriminatory policies. But they said they need more data to come up with more complete figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kamilah Moore, the task force's chair, said the group has not decided on any dollar amounts or what form reparations could take, nor where the money would come from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, a former Assembly member, authored the bill that created the state's task force, and the group began its work last year. The bill was signed into law in September 2020 after a summer of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-shootings-race-and-ethnicity-or-state-wire-racial-injustice-9035ecdfc58d5dba755185666ac0ed6d\">nationwide protests\u003c/a> against racism and police brutality following the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white police officer in Minnesota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, the task force released \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-race-and-ethnicity-san-francisco-voter-registration-0cb66f61c4b9f0136c43a17408720d98\">a 500-page report describing discriminatory policies\u003c/a> that drove housing segregation, criminal justice disparities and other realities that harmed Black Californians in the decades since the abolition of slavery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Russell City and current Oakland resident Marian Johnson and her brother came to Oakland City Hall for public comment where Johnson shared her story with the task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandparents came to California in the 1940s, landing in West Oakland. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The task force must determine when each harm began and ended and who should be eligible for monetary compensation in those areas. For example, the group could choose to limit cash compensation to people incarcerated from 1970 — when more people started being imprisoned for drug-related crimes — to the present. Or they could choose to compensate everyone who lived in over-policed Black neighborhoods, even if they were not themselves arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force has a July 1 deadline to complete its final report for the Legislature listing recommendations for how the state can atone for and address its legacy of discriminatory policies against Black Californians. Lawmakers will need to pass legislation for payments and other policy changes to take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The work that you all are doing statewide will help us guide the same process through the entire state of California, because the harm is real,\" said Oakland City Council member Carroll Fife, who opened the meeting by welcoming the task force to Oakland. \"And the people here today to testify about that and the work that you all have done, collecting this robust set of suggestions to bring back to the state, is invaluable. It is literally priceless. And I'm grateful for your work. I'm grateful for your participation. And I look forward to accountability when this gets back to our legislators so that we can have real action. Thank you all for being here today. I appreciate you all. I appreciate your work. And welcome to Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11935326\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11935326\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Carol_Fife-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A black woman wearing a purple suit speaks behind a dais in a large hall with columns and press behind her.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Carol_Fife-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Carol_Fife-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Carol_Fife-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Carol_Fife-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Carol_Fife-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Carol_Fife-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/Carol_Fife-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Council member Carroll Fife welcomes the California Reparations Task Force to Oakland on Dec. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the committee made the controversial decision to limit reparations to descendants of Black people in the United States as of the 19th century, either as freed or enslaved people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Task force member Monica Montgomery Steppe said Wednesday they need to take more time addressing time frames, payment calculations and residency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the foundation of all the other recommendations,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation in 2020 creating the task force, giving hope to reparations advocates who had despaired that anything might happen at the federal level. Since then, reparations efforts have bubbled up in cities and counties and at colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/politics-boston-slavery-government-and-6a5e36f746db813b2f42444e180be7b2\"> Boston City Council voted to form a task force to study reparations\u003c/a> and other forms of atonement to Black residents for the city’s role in slavery and its legacy of inequality. Lawmakers in other parts of the country have pushed their states and cities to study reparations, without much progress. But Evanston, Illinois, became the first U.S. city last year to make reparations available for Black residents, and public officials in New York will try anew to create a reparations commission in that state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 60 people attended Wednesday’s meeting, nodding in agreement as task force members spoke of the generational trauma suffered by Black children amid inaccurate and ongoing depictions of white families as ideal and Black families as not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Max Fennell, a 35-year-old coffee company owner, said that every person should get $350,000 in compensation to close the racial wealth gap and that Black-owned businesses should receive $250,000, which would help them to flourish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a debt that’s owed. We worked for free,\" he said. \"We’re not asking. We’re telling you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demnlus Johnson III, a Richmond City Council member, said it's remarkable that the issue is even being talked about publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to name a problem in order to address it,\" he said. “Of course we want to see it addressed now, the urgency is now, but just having it all aired out and put on the line is a major feat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the committee will make preliminary policy recommendations, such as audits of government agencies that deal with child welfare and incarceration with the aim of reducing disparities in how Black people are treated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group discussed how the state may address its impact on Black families whose property was seized through eminent domain. The topic garnered renewed attention after lawmakers last year voted to return a beachfront property in Southern California known as \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-janice-hahn-a3e320018f6770e156c0862d12317ea5\">Bruce's Beach\u003c/a> to descendants of the Black residents who owned it until it was taken in the 20th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11935349\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11935349\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/IMG_9115-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"People of various races sit and listen in Oakland City Hall.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/IMG_9115-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/IMG_9115-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/IMG_9115-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/IMG_9115-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/IMG_9115-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/IMG_9115-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/IMG_9115-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">General view of the meeting with the Reparations Task Force, Dec. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officials from Oakland, Sacramento, Los Angeles and other California cities planned to present about local reparations efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That included Khansa T. Jones-Muhammad, vice chair of Los Angeles’ Reparations Advisory Commission, created last year under then-Mayor Eric Garcetti. The goal of that commission is to advise LA on a pilot program for distributing reparations to a group of Black residents, but it doesn't have a timeline set in stone for finishing its work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, economists started listing preliminary estimates for what could be owed by the state as a result of discriminatory policies. But they said they need more data to come up with more complete figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kamilah Moore, the task force's chair, said the group has not decided on any dollar amounts or what form reparations could take, nor where the money would come from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, a former Assembly member, authored the bill that created the state's task force, and the group began its work last year. The bill was signed into law in September 2020 after a summer of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-shootings-race-and-ethnicity-or-state-wire-racial-injustice-9035ecdfc58d5dba755185666ac0ed6d\">nationwide protests\u003c/a> against racism and police brutality following the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white police officer in Minnesota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, the task force released \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-race-and-ethnicity-san-francisco-voter-registration-0cb66f61c4b9f0136c43a17408720d98\">a 500-page report describing discriminatory policies\u003c/a> that drove housing segregation, criminal justice disparities and other realities that harmed Black Californians in the decades since the abolition of slavery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Russell City and current Oakland resident Marian Johnson and her brother came to Oakland City Hall for public comment where Johnson shared her story with the task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandparents came to California in the 1940s, landing in West Oakland. They were pushed out of there by the I-980 project. Then they landed in Russell City, where my mother and my father met and married. They were forced out of there when I was an infant, placing us in a place that was not safe. I can’t tell you how many times we went to developments to look at new model homes. They let us go in. By the time we got back to our paperwork, offices were empty every time. In 1968 we were forced to leave Russell City, forced out of our land and our property, and we were given nothing in order for us to move on. We were forced into East Oakland, which was the only place we were able to live. We weren’t allowed in other communities. We were over-policed. We were disenfranchized. It felt like there was no room for us, that we weren’t worthy of anything. The only comfort we felt for a short period of time was when the Black Panthers came into our neighborhood and they would make sure we were safe and that we had food. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This story was updated on Wednesday, Dec. 14, to include comments from a representative of CoreCivic, a private-prison management company.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for criminal justice reform are applauding California’s recently announced plans to close two more of its state prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California City Correctional Facility in Kern County and Chuckawalla Valley State Prison in Riverside County, which together currently house nearly 4,000 incarcerated people, are \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/news/2022/12/06/california-department-of-corrections-and-rehabilitation-announces-the-planned-closure-of-chuckawalla-valley-state-prison/\">slated to be shuttered by 2024 and 2025 respectively\u003c/a>, along with the closure of certain facilities in six other prisons, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s most recent prison downsizing plans follow last year’s closure of Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Crime’s going down, prison populations are down, but prison spending has steadily gone up,” Jay Jordan, CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://asj.allianceforsafetyandjustice.org/\">Alliance for Safety and Justice\u003c/a>, a criminal justice reform advocacy group, told KQED, following the state’s announcement. “I mean, we’re spending $14 billion a year on prisons … prisons that were created in the ’40s and ’30s … literally throwing money over a crumbling infrastructure that does not do what it needs to do to keep us safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California City Correctional Facility, one of the prisons on the chopping block, is California’s last privately owned prison, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/news/2022/12/06/california-department-of-corrections-and-rehabilitation-announces-the-planned-closure-of-chuckawalla-valley-state-prison/\">CDCR leases from CoreCivic for $32 million a year\u003c/a>. [pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jay Jordan, CEO, Alliance for Safety and Justice\"]‘We should be doing things to help get at the root causes of why someone got in trouble in the first place instead of just pure punishment.’[/pullquote]“I mean, you’re talking about a private prison, let’s just get that into perspective,” said Jordan, noting that taxpayers are overwhelmingly against private prisons. “In America, there should not be an incentive for profit to lock people up, it should be in the interest of public safety. So closing down a for-profit prison is something that is long overdue. All states are doing it. This is something that’s commonplace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CoreCivic spokesperson Ryan Gustin responded to Jordan’s comments by pointing out that the California City Correctional Facility, which it leases to the state, is fully staffed and operated by unionized CDCR employees and that CoreCivic has no role in the daily operations of the facility. He also noted that the prison is a much more modern facility than those described by Jordan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was built in 1999, and since we began leasing the facility to CDCR in 2013, we have continually invested in facility enhancements to ensure the [California City Correctional Facility] is operating at its optimum performance,” Gustin wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gustin also challenged Jordan’s contention that taxpayers are overwhelmingly against private prisons, and said it was “demonstrably false” to claim that most states were moving to close them down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many states continue to work with companies like ours because they face the same challenges California did for years, such as overcrowding and aging infrastructure,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More prison closures in California may soon follow. A\u003ca href=\"https://a19.asmdc.org/sites/a19.asmdc.org/files/2022-12/2023_budget_blueprint_final.pdf\"> budget blueprint (PDF)\u003c/a> released Wednesday by state Assembly Budget Committee Chair Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) recommends that three more prisons be closed by 2025, “saving the state up to $500 million annually and [avoiding] billions in capital expenses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those incarcerated at the two prisons planned for closure will be relocated to other facilities “based on their housing, custody and rehabilitative needs,” according to CDCR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jordan called that plan “vague,” and urged the department to prioritize relocating people to prisons closer to where they come from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know when people are closer to home and get closer to their family, that reduces recidivism,” he said. “I [also] applaud the efforts of people going to places where they can get a trade, so when they get out, they can get a job that reduces recidivism. I applaud efforts of sending people to places where they can be safe, where they’re not getting into trouble. … I’m really curious and interested in how they facilitate this process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan says California has been on the wrong track since the 1980s, when it “passed tough-on-crime, incarceration-first policies … that bloated the prison population.” The result of those harsh sentencing policies was that California’s prison population swelled to nearly double its designed capacity, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/California-must-cut-prison-population-by-30-000-2370666.php\">reaching 143,000 by 2011\u003c/a>, with almost every one of the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_state_prisons\">34 prisons operated by the CDCR being significantly above capacity\u003c/a>.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11934072,news_11924214,news_11926841\"]But, Jordan noted, California’s prison population has decreased markedly over the last decade — reduced by over 30,000 people — the result of widespread criminal justice reform efforts and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/us/24scotus.html\">2011 Supreme Court order\u003c/a> to significantly reduce overcrowding — in which justices found that the state’s prison conditions constituted cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California took action and we passed Proposition 36, AB 109, and Prop. 57, Prop. 47,” Jordan said, referring to a series of measures and bills that “would relieve the pressure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These bills weren’t a get-out-of-jail-free card. 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"content": "\u003cp>Federal immigration officials are terminating their detention contract with a Northern California county jail, the last public facility in the state to hold immigrants fighting deportation, KQED has learned. The news comes after years of public outcry over substandard and dangerous conditions in the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Friday the agency has provided the Yuba County Jail in Marysville 60 days' notice and will terminate the $8.7 million-a-year contract on Feb. 8.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"US Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San José)\"]'ICE has made the proper decision to terminate its contract with the Yuba County Jail. The facility consistently failed to meet ICE's own detention standards and was a waste of federal funds.'[/pullquote]“It’s in the agency’s best interest to terminate agreements with an operationally unnecessary facility and utilize taxpayer resources more efficiently by housing noncitizens at other locations,” the spokesperson said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE is currently holding just four people at the jail, though it is paying for a nightly minimum of 150 beds. For two months in 2021, no ICE detainees were housed there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San José) applauded the news, saying, “ICE has made the proper decision to terminate its contract with the Yuba County Jail. 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In July 2020, guards retaliated against two men peacefully protesting poor conditions related to COVID-19 by ripping up their mattresses and denying them access to phone calls, mail, and soap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yuba County Jail has been under the supervision of a federal judge since 1979, in a \u003ca href=\"https://rbgg.com/wp-content/uploads/Yuba-CountyAmended-Consent-Decree-FINAL-08-10-18.pdf\">consent decree (PDF)\u003c/a> requiring the facility to correct deficiencies in medical and mental health care and access to exercise and recreation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant rights advocates, who have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11899490/protestors-demand-ice-stop-using-yuba-jail-to-detain-undocumented-migrants\">pushed for years to close the facility\u003c/a> and other immigration detention centers, celebrated the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm overwhelmed with joy and a lot of emotion,” said Edwin Carmona-Cruz of the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice. “This is really years in the making.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11835611,news_11597341,news_11917597\"]Carmona-Cruz, whose group is part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccijustice.org/yuba-liberation-coalition\">Yuba Liberation Coalition\u003c/a>, credited the courage of detained immigrants who waged hunger strikes and spoke out about medical neglect and other dangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This also reminds me of all of the people that we fought to get out,” he said. “This victory is really for them, because they came out publicly about the conditions inside, risking retaliation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yuba County, meanwhile, will lose a multimillion-dollar revenue stream from the ICE contract, which dates back to 1994. It has ensured ICE a “guaranteed minimum” of 150 beds at all times, at the rate of $158.13 a day per bed, regardless of whether or not they are occupied, according to an April 28, 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/Received_2022.02.02_2012_2020_IGSA_Contract_Amendments.pdf\">contract modification (PDF)\u003c/a> between ICE and the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11597341/these-immigrants-and-their-county-jailer-need-each-other-to-survive-will-they-make-it\">revenue has helped the rural county\u003c/a>, north of Sacramento, weather economic downturns over the years. But at one point during the COVID-19 pandemic, all ICE detainees were released, partly due to a federal court order aimed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835611/ice-detainees-at-yuba-jail-press-for-covid-19-protections\">preventing an outbreak\u003c/a> of the virus inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before COVID restrictions, our jail averaged close to 175 detainees,” said Yuba County Sheriff Wendell Anderson in a statement Friday. “That number has gradually decreased and it’s understandable that it no longer fiscally makes sense for ICE to continue the contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under President Joe Biden, the Department of Homeland Security has discontinued use of several other ICE detention facilities, including ones in Massachusetts, Georgia, Alabama and Florida. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Carmona-Cruz, whose group is part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccijustice.org/yuba-liberation-coalition\">Yuba Liberation Coalition\u003c/a>, credited the courage of detained immigrants who waged hunger strikes and spoke out about medical neglect and other dangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This also reminds me of all of the people that we fought to get out,” he said. “This victory is really for them, because they came out publicly about the conditions inside, risking retaliation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yuba County, meanwhile, will lose a multimillion-dollar revenue stream from the ICE contract, which dates back to 1994. It has ensured ICE a “guaranteed minimum” of 150 beds at all times, at the rate of $158.13 a day per bed, regardless of whether or not they are occupied, according to an April 28, 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/Received_2022.02.02_2012_2020_IGSA_Contract_Amendments.pdf\">contract modification (PDF)\u003c/a> between ICE and the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11597341/these-immigrants-and-their-county-jailer-need-each-other-to-survive-will-they-make-it\">revenue has helped the rural county\u003c/a>, north of Sacramento, weather economic downturns over the years. But at one point during the COVID-19 pandemic, all ICE detainees were released, partly due to a federal court order aimed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835611/ice-detainees-at-yuba-jail-press-for-covid-19-protections\">preventing an outbreak\u003c/a> of the virus inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before COVID restrictions, our jail averaged close to 175 detainees,” said Yuba County Sheriff Wendell Anderson in a statement Friday. “That number has gradually decreased and it’s understandable that it no longer fiscally makes sense for ICE to continue the contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under President Joe Biden, the Department of Homeland Security has discontinued use of several other ICE detention facilities, including ones in Massachusetts, Georgia, Alabama and Florida. 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They include the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego and the Adelanto facility in San Bernardino County, which Lofgren and other members of Congress \u003ca href=\"https://lofgren.house.gov/media/press-releases/lofgren-correa-ca-dems-urge-dhs-close-three-ice-detention-centers\">flagged in a letter to DHS last year\u003c/a> for “dire conditions.” And they include the Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex facilities, which were the subject of \u003ca href=\"https://lofgren.house.gov/media/press-releases/lofgren-padilla-correa-ca-dems-call-dhs-investigation-ca-detention-centers\">another letter\u003c/a> from Democratic members to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in September, raising alarm about “abusive and retaliatory” treatment of detainees. 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"content": "\u003cp>A judge in San José on Wednesday sentenced former Theranos chief operating officer Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani to nearly 13 years in prison for his role in the company’s blood-testing hoax — a sentence slightly longer than that given to CEO Elizabeth Holmes, his lover and accomplice in one of Silicon Valley’s biggest scandals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ramesh-balwani-theranos-verdict-d9fb19f13a1c930a6ff091dff10a0b5d\">Balwani was convicted in July of fraud and conspiracy\u003c/a> connected to the company’s bogus medical technology that duped investors and endangered patients. 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The jury in Holmes’ trial also deadlocked on three charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balwani, on the other hand, was convicted on all 12 felony counts, and received nearly two additional years, despite his lawyers seeking a far more lenient sentence of just four to 10 months in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors also want the judge to order Balwani to pay $804 million in restitution to defrauded investors — the same amount sought from Holmes. Davila deferred a decision on restitution to a later hearing, just as he did during Holmes' Nov. 18 sentencing, when she received 11 years and three months in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court documents, Balwani's lawyers painted him as a hardworking immigrant who moved from India to the U.S. during the 1980s to become the first member of his family to attend college. He graduated from the University of Texas in 1990 with a degree in information systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He later moved to Silicon Valley, where he first worked as a computer programmer for Microsoft before founding an online start-up that he sold for millions of dollars during the dot-com boom of the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Balwani and Holmes met in 2003, around the same time she dropped out of Stanford University to start Theranos. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 6:30 p.m. Saturday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela Price has won the closely watched and closely contested Alameda County district attorney’s race, with opponent Terry Wiley conceding the race late Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to thank my family and everyone who supported me in my campaign, including my volunteers and everyone who voted for me,” Wiley said Saturday. “Although I expected a different result, I’m grateful for everyone’s support. I congratulate Pamela Price on becoming Alameda County’s first-ever African American District Attorney. I look forward to working with Pamela in her transition to District Attorney.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price, a progressive civil-rights attorney, had over 53% of the vote in the latest results Saturday, and Wiley — the county’s chief assistant district attorney under retiring DA Nancy O'Malley — had just under 47%, a difference of nearly 27,000 votes. 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Price's win seems to reflect East Bay voters' appetite for progressive criminal justice reform: Her campaign offered voters a vision for a district attorney who proposed bold stances to eliminate racial inequity in the criminal legal system and provide alternatives to incarceration focused on healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiley, a career prosecutor, offered a more moderate approach, calling for flexibility and arguing that pretrial detention and life-without-parole sentencing — things that Price spoke out against using — are sometimes necessary to protect public safety. Among other campaign promises, Wiley proposed to focus his office's work on what he called \"the 2,000 repeat offenders who commit the majority of crime in Alameda County,\" and increasing referrals from the court system to the county's drug and mental health care treatment programs. A win for Wiley would have preserved much of the status quo with the Alameda district attorney's office, whose work he defended on the campaign trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the June primary, Price was the favorite, taking 40% of the vote over Terry Wiley, who garnered slightly less than 30%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_9030-1020x765-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11932395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_9030-1020x765-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"a young Black man in a black coat smiles in a portrait at the library\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_9030-1020x765-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_9030-1020x765-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_9030-1020x765-1.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leron Garret voted at the Oakland Public Library on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Election Day, voters at the Oakland Public Library on 14th Street said they had been closely following the candidates' campaigns. Oakland resident Leron Garret didn’t share whom he voted for, but said he felt like crime had gotten worse in the city, and he wanted a DA who would thoughtfully address it — within reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very nuanced, especially when you consider the deleterious effects of long sentences and what it can do to someone’s life long-term,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another voter, teacher Erin Hartfield, said voting for a Black candidate was important to her. Both Wiley and Price are Black. But Price, who opposes cash bail and charging youths as adults, won Hartfield's support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She actually thinks about the youth and is very strategic about saying that,” said Hartfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11931624 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man smiling broadly and looking directly at the camera, with a bald head and wire-rimmed glasses, dressed in a dark gray suit, a light dress shirt, and a tie with diagonal blue and red stripes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terry Wiley is seen among supporters at a campaign party held at Mimosa 2 in Oakland on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiley was widely endorsed by elected officials including the mayors of several Alameda County cities, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell. He also had the support of local and state district attorneys’ associations and police and sheriffs’ associations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiley's campaign often took aim at his competitor’s lack of prosecutorial and managerial experience. Price’s detractors were also quick to draw parallels between her and San Francisco’s recently recalled former District Attorney Chesa Boudin — including at Wiley's election night party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Chesa Boudin experiment was tried in San Francisco and it failed,\" Deputy District Attorney Butch Ford told the crowd, referring to the former DA across the bay whose tenure was marked by efforts to end cash bail, reduce jail time, and criminally charge police accused of misconduct. Ford continued, saying that Wiley \"made it real clear he'd be damned that the 'Pamela Price experiment' be tried here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price shares Boudin's opposition to cash bail and to charging youths as adults, put forth ambitious plans to combat sex trafficking, and sought to expand the role the DA plays in advocating for mental health care services and affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s campaign, her second for Alameda DA after an unsuccessful run in 2018, was widely endorsed by local Democratic clubs, progressive labor unions and justice reform advocacy groups including Oakland’s Anti Police-Terror Project and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11931593 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman with long, curly black hair dressed in a purple sequin dress smiles among people smiling at her.\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda county district attorney candidate Pamela Price greets guests at her election night party at Q's Lounge in Oakland on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, campaign funding flowed to the candidates from different sides of the courtroom. Current attorneys and inspectors for the Alameda County district attorney’s office contributed heavily to Wiley’s campaign, both individually and collectively, including a $75,000 donation from the Alameda County Prosecutors’ Association. Over the course of his two-year campaign, Wiley raised more than $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price received numerous individual donations from attorneys in the Alameda County Public Defender’s office. Price began fundraising for her 2022 campaign in 2018, and though she pulled in money more slowly, her fundraising for this election surpassed the $1 million mark as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association and the Fremont Police Department funded attack ads through the Golden State Communities Project targeting Price and hyperbolizing about crime in the Bay Area, which, though perhaps unsolicited by Wiley, certainly benefited him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price will be the first Black district attorney in Alameda County history. Aside from gun violence in Oakland, she inherits issues such as accusations of misconduct within the current DA’s office and a growing number of deaths at the county jail, where at least two people have died in the last four weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 6:30 p.m. Saturday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela Price has won the closely watched and closely contested Alameda County district attorney’s race, with opponent Terry Wiley conceding the race late Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to thank my family and everyone who supported me in my campaign, including my volunteers and everyone who voted for me,” Wiley said Saturday. “Although I expected a different result, I’m grateful for everyone’s support. I congratulate Pamela Price on becoming Alameda County’s first-ever African American District Attorney. I look forward to working with Pamela in her transition to District Attorney.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price, a progressive civil-rights attorney, had over 53% of the vote in the latest results Saturday, and Wiley — the county’s chief assistant district attorney under retiring DA Nancy O'Malley — had just under 47%, a difference of nearly 27,000 votes. Price had already \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PPriceCares/status/1593818402992308225\">declared herself the victor on Friday\u003c/a> with a tweet that said “WE DID IT!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hotly contested race reflected two starkly different approaches to crime, which Alameda County voters consistently named a top priority — the increase in gun violence in Oakland, in particular — during the months leading up to the election. Price's win seems to reflect East Bay voters' appetite for progressive criminal justice reform: Her campaign offered voters a vision for a district attorney who proposed bold stances to eliminate racial inequity in the criminal legal system and provide alternatives to incarceration focused on healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiley, a career prosecutor, offered a more moderate approach, calling for flexibility and arguing that pretrial detention and life-without-parole sentencing — things that Price spoke out against using — are sometimes necessary to protect public safety. Among other campaign promises, Wiley proposed to focus his office's work on what he called \"the 2,000 repeat offenders who commit the majority of crime in Alameda County,\" and increasing referrals from the court system to the county's drug and mental health care treatment programs. A win for Wiley would have preserved much of the status quo with the Alameda district attorney's office, whose work he defended on the campaign trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the June primary, Price was the favorite, taking 40% of the vote over Terry Wiley, who garnered slightly less than 30%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_9030-1020x765-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11932395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_9030-1020x765-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"a young Black man in a black coat smiles in a portrait at the library\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_9030-1020x765-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_9030-1020x765-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_9030-1020x765-1.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leron Garret voted at the Oakland Public Library on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Election Day, voters at the Oakland Public Library on 14th Street said they had been closely following the candidates' campaigns. Oakland resident Leron Garret didn’t share whom he voted for, but said he felt like crime had gotten worse in the city, and he wanted a DA who would thoughtfully address it — within reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very nuanced, especially when you consider the deleterious effects of long sentences and what it can do to someone’s life long-term,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another voter, teacher Erin Hartfield, said voting for a Black candidate was important to her. Both Wiley and Price are Black. But Price, who opposes cash bail and charging youths as adults, won Hartfield's support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She actually thinks about the youth and is very strategic about saying that,” said Hartfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11931624 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man smiling broadly and looking directly at the camera, with a bald head and wire-rimmed glasses, dressed in a dark gray suit, a light dress shirt, and a tie with diagonal blue and red stripes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/TerryWiley.THUMBNAIL-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terry Wiley is seen among supporters at a campaign party held at Mimosa 2 in Oakland on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiley was widely endorsed by elected officials including the mayors of several Alameda County cities, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell. He also had the support of local and state district attorneys’ associations and police and sheriffs’ associations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiley's campaign often took aim at his competitor’s lack of prosecutorial and managerial experience. Price’s detractors were also quick to draw parallels between her and San Francisco’s recently recalled former District Attorney Chesa Boudin — including at Wiley's election night party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Chesa Boudin experiment was tried in San Francisco and it failed,\" Deputy District Attorney Butch Ford told the crowd, referring to the former DA across the bay whose tenure was marked by efforts to end cash bail, reduce jail time, and criminally charge police accused of misconduct. Ford continued, saying that Wiley \"made it real clear he'd be damned that the 'Pamela Price experiment' be tried here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price shares Boudin's opposition to cash bail and to charging youths as adults, put forth ambitious plans to combat sex trafficking, and sought to expand the role the DA plays in advocating for mental health care services and affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s campaign, her second for Alameda DA after an unsuccessful run in 2018, was widely endorsed by local Democratic clubs, progressive labor unions and justice reform advocacy groups including Oakland’s Anti Police-Terror Project and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1616px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11931593 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman with long, curly black hair dressed in a purple sequin dress smiles among people smiling at her.\" width=\"1616\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519.jpg 1616w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519-800x535.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/IMG_0519-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1616px) 100vw, 1616px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda county district attorney candidate Pamela Price greets guests at her election night party at Q's Lounge in Oakland on Nov. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, campaign funding flowed to the candidates from different sides of the courtroom. Current attorneys and inspectors for the Alameda County district attorney’s office contributed heavily to Wiley’s campaign, both individually and collectively, including a $75,000 donation from the Alameda County Prosecutors’ Association. Over the course of his two-year campaign, Wiley raised more than $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price received numerous individual donations from attorneys in the Alameda County Public Defender’s office. Price began fundraising for her 2022 campaign in 2018, and though she pulled in money more slowly, her fundraising for this election surpassed the $1 million mark as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association and the Fremont Police Department funded attack ads through the Golden State Communities Project targeting Price and hyperbolizing about crime in the Bay Area, which, though perhaps unsolicited by Wiley, certainly benefited him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price will be the first Black district attorney in Alameda County history. Aside from gun violence in Oakland, she inherits issues such as accusations of misconduct within the current DA’s office and a growing number of deaths at the county jail, where at least two people have died in the last four weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It’s like that slavery rate of $1 a day,” said Mohammed Mousa, 41, an immigrant from Egypt who said detention center staff held him in solitary confinement for more than 40 days for supporting the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an official civil liberties complaint and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919749/ice-detainees-making-1-a-day-sue-over-alleged-wage-theft\">a lawsuit\u003c/a>, some strikers alleged The GEO Group, the private company operating the detention centers, retaliated against them, including subjecting them to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919161/ice-detainees-protested-1-a-day-wage-now-theyre-in-solitary-confinement\">solitary confinement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is what they’re doing to retaliate against people who speak up. This is what they’re doing to intimidate us,” Pedro Figueroa, 34, told KQED by phone from solitary confinement. Records show guards moved him to segregation shortly after he and other people in his dormitory joined the work stoppage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figueroa said he spent 40 hours a week scrubbing floors and cleaning bathrooms inside the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Facility in Bakersfield. “I chose not to work and voice my opinion respectfully, and that’s within my right,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal challenge by Figueroa and eight other detainees charges the multinational prison company The GEO Group with “systematic and unlawful wage theft, unjust enrichment and forced labor” at Mesa Verde and the nearby Golden State Annex in McFarland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Ana de Alba is set to hear the case in federal court in Fresno next month. Additional lawsuits in Washington and other states also claim GEO, which reported \u003ca href=\"https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220216006284/en/The-GEO-Group-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2021-Results\">revenues of $2.26 billion last year\u003c/a>, should pay detained workers minimum wage or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Pedro Figueroa, detainee, who was moved to solitary confinement after participating in a work stoppage\"]‘This is what they’re doing to retaliate against people who speak up. This is what they’re doing to intimidate us.’[/pullquote]A GEO spokesperson declined an interview with KQED, but strongly rejected allegations of retaliation. 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"content": "\u003cp>Abortion rights supporters had a successful run of ballot measures this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In states where voters were asked to weigh in directly on abortion rights, they \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/10/1135719000/several-state-ballot-measures-resulted-in-victories-for-abortion-rights-supporte\">supported measures\u003c/a> that protect those rights and rejected initiatives that could threaten them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those victories have abortion rights advocates looking at where they can next take the fight directly to voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s take this show on the road. 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She said gerrymandering in many states has resulted in lawmakers who support much deeper abortion restrictions than their constituents do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall said the initiative process can serve as a check on overreach by state lawmakers — when there’s a “huge gap between the desires of the electorate and the actions of politicians. And nowhere is that more the case in America right now than on abortion rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A ‘serious problem’ for abortion opponents\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Faced with these political losses, anti-abortion rights groups are emphasizing that they were outspent by their opponents in these campaigns, and they say they believe that voters were misled by some of the messaging around these initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of SBA Pro-Life America, told reporters on Wednesday that she’s concerned more states will try to pass pro-abortion-rights ballot measures like those in California. 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He accuses Republican elected officials in many states of “pandering to the most extreme portion of their base … that’s holding Republican voters and the broader public hostage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to leapfrog the governors, and you have the leapfrog the legislatures,” Romero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ballot measures face their own challenges, risks\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many states lack a process for citizen-initiated ballot initiatives, leaving the question of abortion in the hands of their state lawmakers. According to the Fairness Project, such initiatives are possible in 22 states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in those states, such efforts could face pushback from abortion opponents. Michigan’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/09/08/1121858922/michigan-supreme-court-abortion-amendment-voters-ballot\">initiative survived\u003c/a> Republican-led challenges aimed at keeping the measure off the ballot, including objections to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1120365677/michigan-supreme-court-abortion-rights\">formatting and spacing\u003c/a> of the language in the amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall, with the Fairness Project, acknowledges there’s a risk that abortion rights advocates might overplay their hand by putting the issue on the ballot and possibly galvanizing voters who will elect anti-abortion candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said she believes that well-crafted measures, tailored to the specific concerns of voters in individual states, can gain bipartisan support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These need to be strategic decisions that meet the electorate where it is,” Hall said. “I don’t think though that we should shy away from having these deep, strategic conversations even in the reddest of places — because frankly there are no other options left in many states for how we advocate for people who need reproductive health care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NYU law professor Melissa Murray said she believes there’s a robust appetite among many voters to push back against some of the state restrictions that have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/06/27/1107750168/the-supreme-courts-abortion-decision-creates-battlegrounds-between-states\">taken effect\u003c/a> in recent months, though the specific message and rationale will vary from state to state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California may have a different logic for this than Kansas, where the prospect of government encroachment might seem like the antithesis of conservatism,” Murray said. “But it’s all cashing out in the same way. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That’s even \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/09/01/1120472842/poll-one-year-after-sb-8-texans-express-strong-support-for-abortion-rights\">the case\u003c/a> in some deeply red states like Texas, where since 2021, when a unique state law took effect, residents have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/28/1083536401/texas-abortion-law-6-months\">seeing the impact\u003c/a> of a ban on most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romero, with the ACLU, said victories for abortion rights in Kentucky this week — and in Kansas in August — show that many Republican-leaning voters are willing to cross party lines to push back against laws they see as overly restrictive. He accuses Republican elected officials in many states of “pandering to the most extreme portion of their base … that’s holding Republican voters and the broader public hostage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to leapfrog the governors, and you have the leapfrog the legislatures,” Romero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ballot measures face their own challenges, risks\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many states lack a process for citizen-initiated ballot initiatives, leaving the question of abortion in the hands of their state lawmakers. According to the Fairness Project, such initiatives are possible in 22 states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in those states, such efforts could face pushback from abortion opponents. Michigan’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/09/08/1121858922/michigan-supreme-court-abortion-amendment-voters-ballot\">initiative survived\u003c/a> Republican-led challenges aimed at keeping the measure off the ballot, including objections to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1120365677/michigan-supreme-court-abortion-rights\">formatting and spacing\u003c/a> of the language in the amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall, with the Fairness Project, acknowledges there’s a risk that abortion rights advocates might overplay their hand by putting the issue on the ballot and possibly galvanizing voters who will elect anti-abortion candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said she believes that well-crafted measures, tailored to the specific concerns of voters in individual states, can gain bipartisan support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These need to be strategic decisions that meet the electorate where it is,” Hall said. “I don’t think though that we should shy away from having these deep, strategic conversations even in the reddest of places — because frankly there are no other options left in many states for how we advocate for people who need reproductive health care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NYU law professor Melissa Murray said she believes there’s a robust appetite among many voters to push back against some of the state restrictions that have \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/06/27/1107750168/the-supreme-courts-abortion-decision-creates-battlegrounds-between-states\">taken effect\u003c/a> in recent months, though the specific message and rationale will vary from state to state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California may have a different logic for this than Kansas, where the prospect of government encroachment might seem like the antithesis of conservatism,” Murray said. “But it’s all cashing out in the same way. Where voters have direct access to the ballot box to register their preferences on abortion, they are registering them in ways that make clear that there is … appetite for greater protections for reproductive rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The damage caused by 3M, DuPont and other manufacturers of PFAS is nothing short of staggering, and without drastic action, California will be dealing with the harms of these toxic chemicals for generations. Today’s lawsuit is the result of a years-long investigation that found that the manufacturers of PFAS knowingly violated state consumer protection and environmental laws. We won’t let them off the hook for the pernicious damage done to our state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minnesota-based 3M said in a statement after the court filing that it “acted responsibly in connection with products containing PFAS and will defend its record of environmental stewardship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931968\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11931968\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1241732286.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1241732286.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1241732286-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1241732286-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1241732286-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A picture taken on June 15, 2021, shows the 3M factory in Zwijndrecht near the Belgian port city of Antwerp. 3M on July 6, 2022, agreed to pay out the equivalent of $582 million to resolve a fight over years of toxic discharges around its Zwijndrecht plant. 3M and the Dutch-speaking region of Flanders announced the out-of-court settlement in a joint statement, saying it resolved ‘ongoing disagreements’ related to the production of PFAS at the plant. \u003ccite>(David Pintens/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dupont, based in Delaware, said the company as it now exists should not have been named in the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 2019, DuPont de Nemours was established as a new multi-industrial specialty products company. 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