Prisoners in solitary petition United Nations: ‘CDCR destroys our minds, souls and spirits’ | San Francisco Bay View

Prisoners in solitary petition United Nations: ‘CDCR destroys our minds, souls and spirits’ | San Francisco Bay View ~~ “California holds more prisoners in solitary confinement than any other state in the United States or any other nation on earth. The treatment of these prisoners is barbaric and, numerous experts agree, amounts to torture.” Peter Schey, who heads the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, is lead counsel for the prisoners who have “joined together to petition the United Nations to intervene by conducting on-site investigations, permitting Red Cross visits, and ultimately ruling that California’s policy on isolated segregation amounts to torture and violates well-established international human rights norms.”