The bills are designed to mitigate the effects of racism and slavery and will face important legislative deadlines in the next two weeks.
Assemblymember Akilah Weber speaks during the State of Black California Tour at Crawford High School in San Diego on June 15, 2024.14 reparations bills
The bill does not address the issue of cash payment, such as requiring that inmates be paid a minimum wage. In 2022, the California Department of Finance estimated it would, a Moreno Valley Democrat, said the proposal’s softened language was a deliberate choice to make the bill more palatable to voters by proposing incremental changes.
“We need to chip away at it, rather than do a total elimination” of forced prison labor, Jackson said later in an interview with CalMatters.California Legislative Black Caucus members, from left, Assemblymember Corey Jackson, State Sen. Steven Bradford and Assemblymember Mike Gipson answer questions during the State of Black California Tour at Crawford High School in San Diego on June 15, 2024.
Voters believed prisoners should work during their sentences, Wilson said, though most agreed they should not be forced to work when they are ill or when a work shift conflicts with a rehabilitation program. “We want to make sure we have some wins we can build up to,” Jackson said at the event. “People need to know that when you do things on reparations the state isn’t going to fall apart. As a matter of fact, it’s going to improve the state overall.”
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