California has received widespread attention over its consideration of a multi-billion dollar reparations package that could exceed the state’s annual budget. But a lesser-known plan to “rectify racial biases” threatens to change the way that the Golden State approaches criminal sentencing; by mandating that race is taken into account.
California Assembly Bill 852, which was introduced by Assemblyman and Reparations Task Force Member Reginald Jones-Sawyer (D-57) , seeks to put race at the forefront of the criminal sentencing process by amending the penal code. The bill passed in the Assembly in May by a vote of 58 to 13, with nine abstentions.
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