Tags Secretary of Operations Matthew Cate
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Families of California prisoners respond to controversial solitary confinement reform proposal
We are the families of thousands of loved ones who have been incarcerated indefinitely – some for decades – in California’s “supermax” segregated and administrative housing units. Solitary confinement, even for short periods, has been known for centuries to cause irreparable physical and psychological damage: torture. Yet California continues to condone this practice.