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California reparations for forced sterilizations include prisoners
By Judy Greenspan posted on July 21, 2021
Bay Area Rally for better health care for prisoners.
Oakland, Calif.
It’s not often that incarcerated people win victories under capitalism. Incarcerated women, and transgender and gender-nonconforming people did just that.
When California’s Governor Gavin Newsom approved the new state budget July 12, it included reparations for people who were forcibly or involuntarily sterilized between 1909 and 1979. The language in the bill specifically included incarcerated people in women’s state prisons after 1979. California is the first state in the U.S. to offer reparations to people who were sterilized while in prison. (Press Release by California Coalition of Women Prisoners, July 13)
February 12, 2021
Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese spoke to reporters at the County Government Building Friday. File photo.
California’s felony murder law allows judges to send convicts to prison for life and sentence them to death even when that person is not directly responsible for the death of another. Sen. Dave Cortese wants to end that practice, and give thousands of inmates charged under the law a chance to apply for a new sentence, with a bill he introduced this week.
Defendants can be charged with felony murder when someone dies, even accidentally, during the commission of a felony like a robbery or burglary. It applies to the person whose actions caused the death and to accomplices individuals who, while involved in the crime, did not kill anyone and did not intend for anyone to die, Cortese said.