A routine address from Santa Clara County’s top prosecutor became a dark vision of potential injustice across Silicon...
Cantrell: Is California’s ‘justice’ system just slavery by another name?
The next “Dying to Stay Here” podcast will feature a panel discussing what we call our criminal justice system. The panel reflected on a recent election in California, where voters were asked, in plain language, whether they wanted to remove slavery from our constitution, where it’s still allowed “as punishment for a crime,” and voted to keep it. As we celebrate another Black History Month, I reflect on the disproportionate number of Black people behind bars. That’s not past history — that’s right now, and it tells you this system still claims the right to capture Black bodies, chain them...
