Byrhonda Lyons, CalMatters
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Although California's Supreme Court justices are generally nominated and appointed to the bench, the state's voters decide whether they can remain or should be removed from their judicial service. Here are the four justices on the ballot this Election Day 2022.
Whites make up a little more than a third of California’s population but nearly two-thirds of its Superior Court judges. Advocates are devising ways to get more people of color into law and onto the bench.
While four mostly Latino counties lack any Latino Superior Court judges, another 13 counties have a more than 30 point gap between the percentage of Latinos in the population and on the bench. Here’s what that means.
More than 7,500 prisoners sent home in the program — which aims to slow the spread of COVID-19 — would have been released within months anyway. Thousands with health conditions remain in prison, and the virus keeps spreading.
El virus está aumentando en las cárceles superpobladas de California a medida que se ralentizan las primeras liberaciones. Y las cárceles del condado están luchando con una acumulación de reclusos que esperan ser transferidos a instalaciones estatales.
The virus is surging in California’s overcrowded prisons as early releases slow. And county jails are struggling with a backlog of inmates awaiting transfers to state facilities.