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Assemblywoman Sydney Kamlager (D-Baldwin Hills) is on a crusade: to ensure prisoners can refuse work. She hopes to do this by changing the language in the California Constitution.
“As it currently reads, the Constitution of California prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude ‘except to punish crime,’” she said. “The California Abolition Act would remove such conditional language, abolishing slavery and involuntary servitude without exception.”
In January, Kamlager introduced ACA 3 to the Assembly. The bill is co-sponsored by Assemblyman Ash Kalra (D-San Jose), who is also the Chair of the Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment.
From a press release:
“California’s incarcerated people have no practical ability to refuse to work. For example, Samual Nathaniel Brown, the original author of ACA 3 and a person incarcerated at California State Prison, Los Angeles County, has had to sanitize the cells of incarcerated people infected with COVID-19 with insu
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Dozens of people led by a bagpiper marched along Highway 62 on Sunday, processing into the Joshua Tree Coffee Company and placing white roses in a vase in memory of the business owner, Royce Robertson.
Nearly 100 people gathered for the memorial service for the 33-year-old Joshua Tree man who was fatally shot by two Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies on Feb. 15 in Indian Wells.
Mourners
delivered testimonials from a parking lot across the street from the coffee shop. The parking lot was chosen because it is centralized, open and shared by business owners who knew Robertson. Passing traffic muffled some of their tributes,
Replies(4) We are making it a goal [that] every death caused by fentanyl toxicity is being investigated as a potential homicide, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco announced this week. (Renee Schiavone/Patch)
RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA For the second time in a week, the Riverside County Sheriff s Department has announced a homicide arrest linked to a fentanyl death.
A man and a 16-year-old girl were found unresponsive at a residence in the 35000 block of Sugar Maple Street in French Valley around 7:04 p.m. Wednesday. Both people were hospitalized for suspected fentanyl poisoning, but the girl did not survive, according to sheriff s Sgt. Rick Espinoza.
Dorsey Nunn knows more about one particular line in the California Constitution than anyone would ever want to. It’s the line that harkens back to the dark days after the Civil War, the one that bans slavery more or less.
“Slavery is prohibited,” says Article 1, Section 6 of the Constitution, the set of fundamental principles that defines what this state stands for. “Involuntary servitude is prohibited except to punish crime.”
The 69-year-old spent a decade behind bars for a 1971 robbery in which his accomplice killed a man. At San Quentin State Prison, he mixed chemicals for detergents that cleaned California’s tunnels and highways and hefted 50-pound sacks for later delivery. Two of his brothers were in prison at the same time.
UpdatedTue, Feb 23, 2021 at 3:18 pm PT
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Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin during Monday s news briefing. (Riverside County District Attorney s Office )
RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA For the first time in Riverside County s history, a man who is accused of dealing fentanyl-laced pills has been charged with murder following the overdose death of one of his buyers.
Joseph Michael Costanza, 21, of Eastvale has been charged with one count of second-degree murder in connection with the Oct. 4 fentanyl-overdose death of 18-year-old Eastvale resident Angel Vazquez who purchased the narcotic from him, according to the district attorney s office.
A 16-year-old teen who was with Vazquez also overdosed on a fentanyl-laced pill provided by Costanza, but the juvenile survived, according to Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin.