CDCR releases new regulations for SHU placement

CDCR releases new regulations for SHU placement

Posted on March 13, 2012

Last week, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) released  new regulations pertaining to how prisoners are placed in Security Housing Units (SHUs) and how prisoners can be released from the SHU back into prison’s general population. Download and read the full 40-page document (pdf).

These new regulations are in part the CDCR’s response to the CA hunger strikes, however they do not fully address the torturous conditions prisoners were protesting. According to attorney Charles Carbone, these regulations could expand the number of people classified as “gang members” and increase the number of people imprisoned in SHUs. Read or listen to an interview with Charles Carbone on CDCR’s new regulations here.

Also, make sure to read Amnesty International’s public statement on CDCR’s new regulations: “California’s prison isolation units remain inhumane despite department’s proposals to amend policies”.

Listen to an interview with reporter Michael Montgomery summarizing the new regulations here.