A bill on Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk may determine the fate of hundreds of California inmates who are sitting in solitary confinement.
BERKELEY – A bill on Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk may determine the fate of hundreds of California inmates who are sitting in solitary confinement — a common and controversial practice that states across the country are moving to restrict.
Kevin R. McCarthy, a student at UC Berkeley, was once held in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison for nine years.His experience is a powerful supporting argument for a bill sitting on Newsom's desk that would limit the use of solitary confinement in California, a bill he's been advocating for since his release.
"I remember seeing the green and the trees and it was almost like this psychedelic feeling, you know, because I had not seen like, you know, the color green, so many years," McCarthy recalled. Like a scene out of"Shawshank Redemption," McCarthy studied. And studied, until he accomplished what he set out to do: become a student at UC Berkeley. The first presently incarcerated person to do so.
"There so many men and women in there who never got a second chance you know, are still stuck there and more capable of such great things, but the way the laws are written they don't, they don't have that chance," he said."I just feel so guilty for them."
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