Calif. Prisons to be Desegregated
Under the terms of a new settlement agreement, California will begin de-segregating its prisons:
Under the terms of the agreement, the state will phase out racial segregation in three steps: In March, after distributing the new policy to prisons and retraining prison staff, current race segregation policies will end in state prison reception centers.
Next year, the ban will extend to so-called sensitive needs yards and minimum support facilities â” dorms that house minimum-custody inmates. In 2008, plans will be rolled out to bring the new integration policy to the prisons, Deixler said.
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