Lonnie Rose spent 26 years in California’s high security state prisons. Now, walking into a crowded supermarket makes him feel overwhelmed and panicky.

“I start to look around and feel the need to get out of there. It is the result of being in solitary confinement for almost 10 years straight,” said 64-year-old Rose.

Rose, who had been in and out of prison since 1972, was given a life sentence under California’s three strikes law in 1994 for transporting heroin, a nonviolent offense.

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