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Judge’s Decision to Hear Inmates’ Case Threatens Practice of Solitary Confinement

More than 200 inmates at Pelican Bay, California’s toughest prison, have spent over a decade locked in windowless 8-foot-by-12-foot cells for 22 hours or more a day. Dozens more have been in solitary confinement for 15 years — or even longer. [read the full story here]

New York Times, Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Tags: Prison Conditions & Corruption, California
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