18 prisoners seek reduced sentences under California's rarely used Racial Justice Act
- Posted on November 20, 2025
- By Los Angeles Times
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18 prisoners seek reduced sentences under California's rarely used Racial Justice Act
Attorneys from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Stanford Law School filed 18 petitions seeking to reduce the prison terms of people in five counties — including Los Angeles and Riverside — citing “gross racial disparities" in how they were sentenced for crimes.
