{"id":1572,"date":"2015-09-02T18:29:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T18:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2015-09-02T18:31:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T18:31:05","slug":"california-agrees-to-overhaul-use-of-solitary-confinement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/2015\/09\/02\/california-agrees-to-overhaul-use-of-solitary-confinement\/","title":{"rendered":"California Agrees to Overhaul Use of Solitary Confinement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/files\/2015\/09\/02solitary-master675.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1573 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/files\/2015\/09\/02solitary-master675.jpg\" alt=\"02solitary-master675\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/files\/2015\/09\/02solitary-master675.jpg 675w, https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/files\/2015\/09\/02solitary-master675-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\">LOS ANGELES \u2014 California has agreed to an overhaul of the use of solitary confinement in its prisons, including strict limits on the prolonged isolation of inmates, as part of a landmark legal settlement filed in federal court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">The settlement is expected to sharply reduce the number of inmates held in the state\u2019s isolation units, where nearly 3,000 inmates are often kept alone for more than 22 hours a day in cells that sometimes have no windows, and cap the length of time prisoners can spend there. Prison reform advocates say they hope the settlement will serve as a model for other states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">To read more click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/02\/us\/solitary-confinement-california-prisons.html?_r=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 California has agreed to an overhaul of the use of solitary confinement in its prisons, including strict limits on the prolonged isolation of inmates, as part of a landmark legal settlement filed in federal court on Tuesday. The settlement is expected to sharply reduce the number of inmates held in the state\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}