US Politics
The Secret Kill: California's Quiet War on Justice for Abuse Survivors
For the fourth consecutive year, California lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow survivors of human trafficking, intimate partner, and sexual violence to cite their abuse as a legal defense for violent crimes, with past convictions potentially being vacated. It is a harrowing and necessary fight for justice, where systemic failure and political cowardice are denying dignity and freedom to victims the law has already failed once, turning survivors into prisoners of a past they were forced to endure.
