Opinion: Sacramento’s good and not-so-good ideas for boosting housing production in California
They say good things come to those who wait. When you are in solitary confinement, all you have is time to wait and the hope that things can get better. I know this through my own experiences in isolation, and as an advocate to end the use of solitary confinement in our state and country. As Gov.
Like the death row ward that Gov. Newsom is now shutting down, solitary confinement is an expensive and ineffective relic of mass incarceration. It is a practice that is designed to punish and humiliate, and perpetuates systematic violence. When I was held in solitary confinement the practice was accepted as normal, with an estimated 12,000 people being held in solitary in California, many for more than a decade.
In 2011 I co-founded California Families Against Solitary Confinement along with several families impacted by solitary confinement, not only because I was personally impacted by the issue, but because my son was in Pelican Bay and participated in the hunger strikes. I was invested not only as a solitary survivor, but as a mother concerned with the fate of her son.
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