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| Judge orders prisons to stop isolating disabled inmates |
| By recordnet.com |
| Published: 02/05/2015 |
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SACRAMENTO — California must stop housing disabled inmates in isolation cells solely because prisons lack housing to accommodate wheelchairs and other assistance, a federal judge has ruled. The state violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and previous court orders when inmates are placed in the administrative segregation cells, U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken said Tuesday in Oakland. The state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation agreed in 2012 to move the inmates from the cells. Still, Wilken found that 211 inmates with disabilities were held in such cells between July 2013 and July 2014 — some for less than a day and others for a month or more. Read More. |
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