Tuesday, September 1, 2015

California to Reduce Solitary Confinement

Prison officials and inmate advocates have announced a settlement to substantially reduce solitary confinement in California’s prisons.

Both sides say the agreement should allow at least half the 3,000 inmates now held in isolation cells to regain contact with the general prison population.

Rachel Silverman reports from San Francisco.


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