Litigation
Feb. 5, 2015
Judge orders prison officials to stop putting disabled inmates in solitary
Saying the state failed to live up to its promise to move disabled prison inmates out of solitary confinement, an Oakland federal judge on Tuesday ordered the state to stop the practice immediately.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Saying the state failed to live up to its promise to move disabled prison inmates out of solitary confinement, an Oakland federal judge on Tuesday ordered the state to stop the practice immediately.
The long-running case stems from the state's practice of using solitary confinement as an overflow space to deal with prisons' lack of beds. The state agreed in 2012 to stop housing disabled inmate...
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