To mark the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend isolated in special housing units, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison conditions. Below, Kijana Tashiri Askari, a class member in Ashker v. Governor of California , shares his experience of being released into the general prison population following a settlement in the case that effectively ended long-term solitary confinement in CA prisons. I was interned to indefinite solitary confinement status on August 12, 1994, for the sole act of commemorating my ancestors...