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CA: After 18 years, Pelican Bay prison abuse case to close

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

California Watch Daily Report After 18 years, Pelican Bay prison abuse case to close February 10, 2011 | Michael Montgomery A long-running legal action that exposed widespread abuses at the state?s highest security prison and forced major reforms within California's department of corrections is drawing to a close. In the coming days, federal District Judge Thelton Henderson is expected to terminate litigation in a case that began when inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison filed a class-action lawsuit over claims of widespread physical abuse, poor medical and mental health care, and appalling conditions in the prison?s notorious security housing unit. In a sweeping decision with national implications, Henderson ruled in 1995 that Pelican Bay inmates had been subjected to excessive violence and cruel and unusual punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 17, 2011 (boomark / email).