Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that limits the use of solitary confinement in California state prisons.

Highlights:

• Requires every jail, prison, public or privately operated detention facility to develop and follow written procedures governing the management of segregated confinement and to make those written procedures publicly available (Sec. 1). 

• Requires facilities to document the use of segregated and solitary confinement by providing written orders of that confinement to the individual confined, as specified (Sec. 1). 

• Prohibit detention facilities from involuntarily placing an individual in segregated or solitary  confinement if the individual belongs to a designated population, including if that the individual has a mental or physical disability or that the individual is under 26 years of age or over 59 years of age (Sec. 1). 

• Requires the facility to periodically check on the individual and have a medical or mental health professional periodically assess the individual (Sec. 1). 

• Requires a facility to offer out-of-cell programming to individuals in segregated confinement for at least 4 hours per day, not including time spent on an unpaid work assignment or in paid employment (Sec. 1). 

• Requires a facility to maximize the amount of time that an incarcerated person held in segregated confinement spends outside of their cell by providing outdoor and indoor recreation, education, clinically appropriate treatment therapies, and skill-building activities, as specified, and would require facilities to develop and provide appropriate programming to individuals that pose a significant safety risk to themselves or others, as specified (Sec. 1). 

• Authorizes a facility to use segregated confinement to help treat and protect against the spread of communicable disease, under certain circumstances (Sec. 1). 

• Prohibits a facility from holding an individual in segregated confinement for more than 15 consecutive days and no more than 45 days in a 180-day period (Sec. 1). 

• Prohibits a facility from imposing limitations on services, treatment, or basic needs and from conducting out-of-cell programming opportunities in a smaller cage or therapy module (Sec. 1). 

• Requires facilities to create and publish monthly, semiannual, and annual reports on solitary confinement conditions (Sec. 1). 

• Requires local and state authorities to promulgate regulations or directives to implement the act (Sec. 1).

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that limits the use of solitary confinement in California state prisons.

Highlights:

• Requires every jail, prison, public or privately operated detention facility to develop and follow written procedures governing the management of segregated confinement and to make those written procedures publicly available (Sec. 1). 

• Requires facilities to document the use of segregated and solitary confinement by providing written orders of that confinement to the individual confined, as specified (Sec. 1). 

• Prohibit detention facilities from involuntarily placing an individual in segregated or solitary  confinement if the individual belongs to a designated population, including if that the individual has a mental or physical disability or that the individual is under 26 years of age or over 59 years of age (Sec. 1). 

• Requires the facility to periodically check on the individual and have a medical or mental health professional periodically assess the individual (Sec. 1). 

• Requires a facility to offer out-of-cell programming to individuals in segregated confinement for at least 4 hours per day, not including time spent on an unpaid work assignment or in paid employment (Sec. 1). 

• Requires a facility to maximize the amount of time that an incarcerated person held in segregated confinement spends outside of their cell by providing outdoor and indoor recreation, education, clinically appropriate treatment therapies, and skill-building activities, as specified, and would require facilities to develop and provide appropriate programming to individuals that pose a significant safety risk to themselves or others, as specified (Sec. 1). 

• Authorizes a facility to use segregated confinement to help treat and protect against the spread of communicable disease, under certain circumstances (Sec. 1). 

• Prohibits a facility from holding an individual in segregated confinement for more than 15 consecutive days and no more than 45 days in a 180-day period (Sec. 1). 

• Prohibits a facility from imposing limitations on services, treatment, or basic needs and from conducting out-of-cell programming opportunities in a smaller cage or therapy module (Sec. 1). 

• Requires facilities to create and publish monthly, semiannual, and annual reports on solitary confinement conditions (Sec. 1). 

• Requires local and state authorities to promulgate regulations or directives to implement the act (Sec. 1).

Full Bill Text