Jeronimo Aguilar

Nov 7, 2024 | davisvanguard.org | Jeronimo Aguilar

We have officially wrapped up the 2023-2024 legislative session, one of the most challenging for criminal justice reform in the past few years. With that said, we still were able to fight for and win some major legislative battles and are confident that we will be getting some powerful reforms to go into effect starting January 2025.

Dec 19, 2023 | znetwork.org | Interview Law |Jeronimo Aguilar |Aaron Cynick

The 13th Amendment of the US Constitution makes an exception to the abolition of slavery in order to permit the use of “involuntary servitude” as punishment for a crime. The modern system of mass incarceration depends on this exception to justify paying millions of incarcerated people subminimum wages that many advocates say is virtually indistinguishable from forms of slavery.