Oral Arguments in Ashker v. Brown (Constitutionality of Long-Term Solitary Confinement)

Please join us on Thursday, February 12th for oral arguments in Ashker v. Brown, a federal lawsuit on behalf of prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison who have spent between 10 and 28 years in solitary confinement.

CCR President Jules Lobel will be in court urging the court to expand the case to cover prisoners recently transferred from solitary confinement at Pelican Bay to another California solitary confinement unit, under the new step down program. California must not be allowed to continue its torturous solitary confinement practices merely by changing the location of the abuse. As Plaintiffs alleged in the proposed amended complaint, “the cruel and unusual treatment [the prisoners have] experienced, and its debilitating effects, have not abated, but instead continue under a different name in a different prison.”