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.
But
in a ruling this week, a federal judge in Oakland, Calif., agreed to
consider whether, as a lawsuit against the state’s corrections
department maintains, holding prisoners in such prolonged isolation
violates their rights under the Eighth Amendment.
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