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• According to the Mercury News, 57-year-old Todd Ashker filed a complaint about the “torturous” conditions in solitary at Kern Valley State Prison. Ashker was the lead plaintiff in a 2016 landmark settlement that ordered Ashker and hundreds of others to be released from solitary confinement at the Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit (SHU). But years […]

Seven Days in Solitary

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by Valerie Kiebala

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by Valerie Kiebala

December 16, 2019

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Seven Days in Solitary [10/28/19]

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October 28, 2019

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May 13, 2019

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October 21, 2018

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by Valerie Kiebala

June 24, 2018

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