Guest Commentary: To Root Out Racism in the Criminal Legal System, We Can't Fear Too Much Justice
The landmark California Racial Justice Act is allowing our clients to challenge their death penalty prosecutions in Riverside County. By Robert Pon...
The landmark California Racial Justice Act is allowing our clients to challenge their death penalty prosecutions in Riverside County. By Robert Ponce Long before I joined the ACLU, I was just a skinny brown kid who grew up in the 'Inland Empire' — a region of Southern California that includes 52 cities spread across Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. Even when I've moved away at different points of my life, the Inland Empire has always been a place that I've called home. However, my younger self could never have imagined that the same field I played club soccer on at Riverside Poly High School was used for a Ku Klux Klan recruitment and cross-burning event less than a century earlier.