Criminal
Jun. 2, 2012
Pro se cases grow to class action against state prisons
A federal class action lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that California prisons follow solitary confinement policies that violate the constitutional rights of hundreds of inmates.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A federal class action filed Thursday alleges that solitary confinement policies throughout California prisons violate the constitutional rights of hundreds of inmates.
The lawsuit, filed in the Northern District, stems from two pro se cases brought in 2009 by inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison, Todd Ashker and Danny Troxell. Lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights, a New York based non-pro...
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