Assemblyman Chris Holden’s anti-solitary confinement crusade
In this 2019 file photo, an inmate looks out a window in his solitary confinement cell at the Main Jail in San Jose, Calif., on Dec. 16, 2019. He happened to mention that not only is he needing to leave the Legislature because of term limits — a California politician can stay 12 years in Sacramento — but this is his 36th consecutive year of being in elective office.
And the reason we were talking is that I wanted to check in with him about the progress of what may be his final passion project in the Legislature, the California Mandela Act, AB 280, which aims to greatly cut down on the use of cruel solitary confinement in California prisons, especially for youth and women.
“But the system we have in our state, the UN defines it as torture, and I’d like to think California can rise above that. As he prepares to leave office, Chris is still meeting with prison officials in order to get a bill they and the governor can live with.
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