LOS ANGELES — For the past 13 years John Martinez has been confined by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to a windowless cell, prohibited from any human contact and allowed out for only 90 minutes of exercise a day in a yard barely bigger than a dog run. He was sent to prison for murder, but was placed in solitary
Hunger Strike Sparks California Prison Reform Efforts
The conditions and ethics of solitary confinement in the U.S. are at the heart of a debate raging in the California corrections system.
