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Daily Archives: October 9, 2013

California legislative hearings take on solitary confinement, address hunger strike demands; 100 rally in...

California’s use of indefinite solitary confinement and the devastating physical, mental and public health impacts of the notorious practice was at the center of today’s three hour hearing by a rare joint session of the California Senate and Assembly Public Safety Committees to address demands made by prisoners during this summer’s massive hunger strike, the largest in U.S. history.