Criminal
Aug. 13, 2020
Judge likely to order new protections for disabled prisoners
The case concerns the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility near San Diego, which houses one of the largest concentrations of prisoners who use wheelchairs or suffer from deafness, blindness, mental illness or other disabilities.
A federal judge in Oakland said she would likely soon order new protections for disabled state prison inmates.
"I will start by telling you that I am having the tentative inclination towards granting some relief to the plaintiff class," U.S. District Judge Claudia A. Wilken near the outset of a hearing Tuesday in Armstrong v. Newsom, 4:94-...
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