Disabled inmates subjected to excessive solitary confinement in Sacramento County

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According to the resulting 33-page report, inmates with mental-health disabilities weren’t exempted, either, and the “harsh conditions” may have “resulted in two recent deaths,” DRC says in a release.

Specifically, the double-celling of inmates with mental-health disabilities may have contributed to a December 2014 homicide in which a bipolar inmate warned staff he was going to “beat up” his cellmate, a mentally ill sex offender who harassed him and soiled himself. The DRC report states: “Custody staff took no action, and the second prisoner was found dead the next day.