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The ad featured Harris talking about her past efforts to provide access to care for transitioning inmates in California prisons.

They say that he has sought to avoid federal detection by using three-way calls and other inmates’ phone access codes.

Mr Combs was also accused of using the phone accounts of at least eight other inmates to make calls, which is against prison regulations; and of "directing others" to orchestrate payment for this access.

Also part of the criminal accountability message was the voters’ rejection of Proposition 6, which would have banned prisons from forcing inmates to work.

DuVernay and supportive lawmakers have argued that the phrase allowing slavery as a punishment for a crime permits prisons to force inmates to perform labor, many for as little as several cents an hour.