Changes in solitary confinement procedures in California prisons are at the core of a legal settlement announced Tuesday. The agreement in federal court between the state and a group of inmates held...
There are people in California’s prison system who have been held in near-complete isolation for more than a decade. Today the state has announced a settlement with a group of these prisoners to move...
If mass incarceration is one of modern America’s deepest pathologies, solitary confinement is the concentrated version of it: far too many people locked up for far too long for no good reason, and at...
For years California prisons used soundproof and windowless cells to confine thousands of inmates in near total isolation for years. But hunger strikes, Sacramento debates and now a court case...
Prison officials, civil rights organizations, former guards and gang members have expressed widespread support of a legal settlement between the state of California and Pelican Bay state prison that...
New limits on solitary confinement in California prisons are a long-delayed but welcome step in the evolution of a system that only recently subjected inmates to a degree of abuse that approached...
The way thousands of California inmates tell it, there's prison, and then there's prison. Locked in windowless cells for as much as 23 hours each day, inmates held in solitary confinement have little...
Reform groups are hoping a landmark settlement to effectively end indefinite solitary confinement in California state prisons will soon spread. "There is still much work to be done to end solitary...
After decades of holding thousands of inmates in concrete, sometimes windowless isolation cells, where some stayed for 20 years or more, California prison officials are about to drastically reduce...
"'We've been tossed into the societal refuse heap. It's the landfill of humanity.'" It was 2013, and Daletha Hayden was reading aloud from an open letter written by her son. Those were dark days. Ian...
