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| Inmates Ask California Prison Guards To Walk Quieter At Night |
| By sacramento.cbslocal.com |
| Published: 09/18/2015 |
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California corrections officials said Thursday that they are handing out earplugs and telling guards to walk softly around some of the state’s most dangerous prisoners after the inmates complained about noise. The inmates say new welfare checks at Pelican Bay State Prison’s notorious security housing unit are keeping them up nights because noise caused by guards rouses them every half-hour around the clock. “We know that people have not been able to sleep at all, and that’s pretty dangerous,” said Laura Magnani, an advocate with the American Friends Service Committee. Correctional officers are supposed to pause at each inmate’s cell and peer in long enough to know that the prisoner is breathing, to guard against suicides and other problems like heart attacks, said Michael Bien, an attorney who represents mentally ill inmates and has fought to lower California’s high inmate suicide rate. Read More. |
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