Friday, March 29, 2024
Advertisement
Tags Our goal of fundamentally transforming the criminal justice system and stopping the practice of warehousing people in prison

Tag: our goal of fundamentally transforming the criminal justice system and stopping the practice of warehousing people in prison

California prisoners win historic gains with settlement against solitary confinement

Today, California prisoners locked in isolation achieved a groundbreaking legal victory in their ongoing struggle against the use of solitary confinement. A settlement was reached in the federal class action suit Ashker v. Brown, originally filed in 2012, effectively ending indefinite long-term solitary confinement and greatly limiting the prison administration’s ability to use the practice, widely seen as a form of torture.