When a group of prisoners attacked two guards at Californias High Desert State Prison in 2006, the warden declared a full lockdown that confined African Americans in one wing of the prison to their cells, and kept them there for 14 months. The state has now agreed, in settling a civil rights lawsuit brought in response to the High Desert lockdown, to give up its use of race-based punishment as a tool to control violence in its prisons.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 05:05:04 +0000
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