Opinion: California must limit the use of solitary confinement
California lawmakers are again considering legislation limiting the use of solitary confinement. Assembly Bill 280, the California Mandela Act on Solitary Confinement, aims to reduce the use of segregated confinement in the state’s prisons, jails, and private detention facilities. On any given day, there are, on average, 4,000 California inmates in solitary confinement, and the proposed changes could reduce this number by as much as 70 percent.
While it is sometimes necessary to separate some individuals from other inmates for their protection or the protection of others, it is nonetheless imperative that living conditions be humane and that solitary confinement not be used as punishment.
Last year, a similar bill was passed by the state legislature, but Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed it, saying that although segregated confinement is “ripe for reform,” the act would establish “overly broad standards and exclusions that could risk the safety of both the staff and incarcerated population within these facilities.” Newsom further argued the bill “could interrupt the rehabilitation efforts of other incarcerated people.
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