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Nearly 15,000 California Prisoners Held in Long-term Isolation
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2009
by Michael Brodheim
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2009, page 36
The American Friends service committee (AFSC) has taken the position that “long-term solitary confinement is ineffective and inappropriate in all circumstances.”
Filed under:
Statistics/Trends,
Conditions of Confinement,
Totality of Conditions.
Location:
California.
In May 2008, it launched a national STOPMAX campaign calling for an end to the use of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons. In conjunction with the launch of that ...
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