California agreed to a "landmark" settlement of a federal class action filed on behalf of hundreds of prisoners held in solitary confinement for more than a decade at the state's prison in Pelican...
Thousands of California prison inmates who have been in solitary confinement – some for more than 30 years – will be released into the general prison population under a legal settlement announced...
Hundreds of prisoners housed in the California penitentiary system will be released from solitary confinement, where dozens of inmates have been detained for more than a decade, under the details of...
A settlement has been reached in a federal class action lawsuit that will effectively end indeterminate, long-term confinement in all California state prisons. The suit was filed against Gov. Jerry...
In a resolution that could have wide effects, California's prison system has agreed to change how it handles solitary confinement — and to review the cases of nearly 3,000 prisoners who are currently...
Lawyers representing thousands of inmates who have been held in small, windowless rooms say they’ve reached a settlement with the state of California to end the practice of extreme long-term...
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...
