Nigel Duara

Nigel Duara joined CalMatters in 2020 as a Los Angeles-based reporter covering poverty and inequality issues for our California Divide collaboration.

Replacing Cash Bail: Fairer Justice or Robopocalypse?

California is either about to right decades of inequality between rich and poor defendants by eliminating cash bail, or it’s about to turn over its justice system to robots.

By Nigel Duara

October 23, 2020

Bill’s Defeat Keeps Undocumented Garment Workers in Meager Wages

Before he was hospitalized with COVID-19, before his roommates kicked him out of their shared apartment because of his illness, before he found himself unhoused for the first time

By Nigel Duara

September 16, 2020