Gavin Newsom vetoes bill to end indefinite solitary confinement in California, citing safety concerns
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that will protect transgender youths fleeing laws in red states that ban gender-affirming care.“One of the reasons this legislation was initiated was because advocates who have participated in the regulatory process have seen time and time again that it falls short of what is needed,” Jackie Gonzalez, policy director of Immigrant Defense Advocates, said in a statement.
Corrections staff would have had to document each incident of segregated confinement thoroughly, including a reason for the isolation, and conduct regular mental health check-ins and monitoring of the incarcerated person. Craig Haney, a distinguished professor of psychology at UC Santa Cruz who has long studied the effects of solitary confinement, said the practice is “traumatizing.” Those who’ve experienced long periods of segregated confinement, Haney said, report high rates of depression, exhaustion and anxiety, nightmares and insomnia and cognitive decline.
Segregated confinement should be used only in “exceptional cases as a last resort,” according to the rules, and banned altogether for those with mental and physical disabilities whose conditions would decline in isolation.Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill to forgive parking ticket fees those who are homeless in California.
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