California has jailed more than 170,000 people in the last four decades, mostly African-Americans and Latinos. And that’s cost the public coffers some 10 billion dollars a year. Many consider the current penal system not only expensive, but unjust and discirminatory, and with a proposition on the ballot, they are seeking reforms to focus on rehabiliation and crime prevention. Rubén Tapia has the story of a grandma and her two grandsons, that shows the way this problem impacts tens of thousands of Latino families.
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