Indefinite Solitary Confinement Ends in San Quentin’s Adjustment Center / Death Row

Links to the articles and radio interview in this post:

• Indefinite Solitary Confinement Ends at San Quentin
  Death Penalty Focus article  http://deathpenalty.org/blog/indefinite-solitary-confinement-ends-san-quentin/

• March 15, 2017 KPFA Interview- ‘Up Front’
  CA Death Row – Solitary Confinement, Cat Brooks talks to Azadeh Zohrabi and Dan Siegel about solitary confinement. https://www.freedomarchives.org/audio_samples/Mp3_files/UpFront3.15.17.mp3

• In California Death Row’s “Adjustment Center,” Condemned Men Wait in Solitary Confinement Solitary Watch article (good background) http://solitarywatch.com/2016/04/13/in-californias-death-rows-adjustment-center-condemned-men-wait-in-solitary-confinement/

• Copy of original complaint (lawsuit) in Lopez v Brown, filed 6/17/2015:  http://sfbayview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Lopez-v.-Brown-San-Quentin-Adjustment-Center-class-action-complaint-061715.pdf

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Indefinite Solitary Confinement Ends at San Quentin

on Death Penalty Focus Blog / March 10, 2017

Death row inmates will no longer be kept in indefinite solitary confinement in San Quentin State Prison, it was announced Monday [March 6]. The agreement was part of a settlement of a 2015 lawsuit filed on behalf of six inmates who were held indefinitely in what is called an “adjustment center” because they were suspected of being gang members. When the lawsuit was filed, there were some 100 inmates being held in the adjustment center. Since then, the number has fluctuated from around 10 to 22 inmates.

“Basically, these guys were housed there for 23 hours a day,” says Oakland attorney Dan Siegel, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of the six inmates. “They got one hour three times a week in the yard. They had no human contact. The cells were like closed boxes, no windows. And they’ve been there for years and years. It takes a toll — emotionally, psychologically, and physically.”