Cruel and Unusual Punishment in California Prisons; Anti-Abortion Billboards Target Latina Women

Li Onesto, contributing writer to Revolution newspaper, on the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that prison conditions in California constitute cruel and unusual punishment and ordering the state to reduce its prison population of 140,000 by 30,000 people.

Gabriela Valle from California Latinas for Reproductive Justice (CLRJ), and Nourbese Flint from Trust Black Women about anti-abortion billboards now targeting Latina women. They have condemned the "racist and heinous billboard messages slated for California, which use Latinas' wombs as a political battleground to attack our health and dignity."

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