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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers will once again introduce legislation that could ban imposing forced labor on inmates. This effort to amend state’s Constitution was rejected last year when lawmakers failed to pass it through the Assembly.

A public records request connects children's eyeglasses to labor exploitation in prisons

A tape in which city officials make racist comments is only the latest controversy in California's biggest city.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Republican Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham went into the last month of California’s legislative session somewhat hopeful about prospects for his biggest bill.

California will not consider amending its state constitution to eliminate an exemption that allows indentured servitude to punish crime

A measure that would change the California constitution to prohibit involuntary servitude in criminal punishment did not pass the Senate in time to make a deadline for the November ballot, disappointing prison reform advocates who called it critical in addressing the state’s history of enslavement.

LOS ANGELES — GOP Rep. David Valadao, one of the most endangered Republican congressional incumbents in the nation, has survived the California primary and will advance to the November ballot.

The California Senate has rejected a proposal to ban involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime

California gave the nation its first Black vice president. But no part of the state has sent a Black man to Congress in more than 20 years.