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Criminal

Aug. 1, 2013

Petitioners lobby officials to end indefinite isolation of prisoners

Two women with family members in California prisons delivered a petition boasting more than 40,000 signatures to Gov. Jerry Brown's office on Tuesday calling for an end to indefinite solitary confinement.

By Hamed Aleaziz
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Two women with family members in California prisons delivered a petition boasting more than 40,000 signatures to Gov. Jerry Brown's office on Tuesday calling for an end to the state's use of indefinite solitary confinement.

Mayra Romero, the wife of an inmate inside Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit, or SHU, started the petition on the website Change.org. In addition to requesting an end to indefinite solitary confinemen...

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