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California Halted from Re-Integrating “Sensitive Needs” Prisoners Into General Population
Loaded on April 1, 2023
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2023, page 22
Filed under:
Confinement in Segregated Housing,
Administrative Detention/Segregation.
Location:
California.
by David M. Reutter
California’s Superior Court for Sacramento County issued a Writ of Mandate on September 30, 2022, ordering the state Department of Correction and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to “immediately cease” transferring prisoners under a controversial new housing policy.
This case was brought by state prisoner Israel …
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