Shaanth Kodialam Nanguneri comes to CalMatters as an intern on the health and justice beat. They are a rising senior at UCLA, studying geography and communication, and they were born and raised in the Bay Area. As a student, they have written for their campus newspaper, The Daily Bruin, as well as The Sacramento Bee, the Orange County Register, and The Nation.
Los tribunales de California han mantenido durante mucho tiempo salarios inferiores al mínimo para los reclusos que desempeñan una amplia gama de trabajos. Una medida electoral de 2024 que prohibiría el trabajo forzoso podría alterar esas decisiones.
California courts have long upheld below-minimum wage pay for prison inmates working a wide range of jobs. A 2024 ballot measure that would ban forced labor could alter those decisions.
California's constitution allows forced labor as a form of criminal punishment. That would change if voters approve an anti-slavery amendment this fall.
Los trabajadores contratados a través de una organización sin fines de lucro podrían perder sus empleos en una prisión estatal de California este otoño. La Junta Estatal de Personal encontró que su contrato violaba las reglas estatales de subcontratación.
Workers hired through a nonprofit could lose their jobs at a California state prison this fall. The State Personnel Board found their contract violated state outsourcing rules.
A federal judge in April ordered Alameda County to review more than 30 of its death penalty convictions after evidence emerged suggesting the District Attorney’s Office blocked Black and Jewish people from serving on juries. This week, the California Supreme Court upheld a capital sentence from a trial that had no Black jurors.
