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Twelve years ago a federal judge ruled unconstitutional California’s practice of putting mentally ill prisoners in solitary confinement. It is, he said, the equivalent of putting an “asthmatic in a room with no air.” Since then, inmates have won settlements or court orders in at least seven states to...

Keep Mentally Ill out of Solitary Confinement Twelve years ago a federal judge called the practice of putting mentally ill prisoners in solitary confinement the equivalent of putting an asthmatic in a room with no air. Since then, lawsuits against corrections departments in at least 10 states have obtained...

Prisons are now housing the mentally ill at alarming rates. Have you had to deal with these issues? A loved one who is sick or have you been incarcerated with mentally ill inmates?