![]() ![]() ![]() 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. OAKLAND - 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. Below I copy the press release of the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity group. Legal Services for Prisoners with Children put out a press release. Many groups were involved in the support of the plaintiffs in the class action suit. It also brings California into line with the practices of virtually all other states. ![]() Prisoners in California will no longer be kept in windowless boxes indefinitely. ![]()
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