It started in 2009 with a handwritten complaint from two prisoners: Solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison “has been the cause for many inmates to: go insane; die or have worse health.”
It led to a hunger strike involving tens of thousands of inmates, a class action certified by U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken of the Northern District of California and, last summer, a settlement under which the state of California agreed to return hundreds of inmates to the general prison population and dial back the use of solitary.
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