Settlement Reached in California Class Action Suit Moves Out of SHU Those There 10 Years or Longer, Ends Solitary Purely Due to Gang Validation September 1, 2015, Oakland – Today, the parties have...
California has agreed to an overhaul of its use of solitary confinement in its prisons, including strict limits on the prolonged isolation of inmates, as part of a landmark legal settlement filed in...
..."I think there is a deepening movement away from solitary confinement in the country and I think this settlement will be a spur to that movement," Jules Lobel, the inmates' lead attorney and...
Ending years of litigation, hunger strikes and contentious debate, California has agreed to move thousands of prison inmates out of solitary confinement. A legal settlement filed Tuesday between the...
California, which once led the nation in putting prisoners in solitary confinement, is poised to end the practice of decades-long isolation. Settlement talks took place Monday morning between lawyers...
California will release hundreds of inmates confined for years in solitary confinement into units where they will live with others, in a sweeping settlement announced Tuesday to reform the practice...
Spurred by hunger strikes and protests over inmates being restricted to solitary confinement for a decade or longer, California on Tuesday agreed to soften its approach to keeping inmates isolated in...
Spurred by hunger strikes and protests over inmates being kept in solitary confinement for a decade or longer, California on Tuesday agreed to soften its approach to keeping inmates isolated in state...
Thousands of California inmates who have spent years in solitary confinement will move back into the general prison population as part of a lawsuit settlement with the state. The settlement,...
California authorities have agreed to sharply limit the number of inmates held in isolation for long periods of time, a major development in the national debate about solitary confinement. The...
