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| State agrees to deal to move nearly 2,000 inmates from solitary confinement |
| By sacbee.com- Sam Stanton |
| Published: 09/02/2015 |
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After years of legal fights and mass hunger strikes among California prison inmates, state officials and inmate advocates announced sweeping changes Tuesday aimed at curbing the use of solitary confinement for nearly 2,000 prisoners. The proposed settlement of a federal class-action lawsuit is designed to end a system in place for more than 30 years that left some inmates in solitary confinement for decades, sometimes on evidence that inmate advocates say was as minor as a tattoo or poem deemed to signal they were prison gang members. “The movement we’re making here is a real sea change,” said California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Secretary Jeffrey Beard, who has overseen a revamping of prison policies in recent years that has dramatically reduced inmate overcrowding. The proposed settlement, which still must be approved by a federal court judge, affects about 2,000 inmates held in solitary because they are considered to be gang members, most of them housed in the security housing unit at Pelican Bay State Prison near Crescent City. Read More. |
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