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Judge: Pretrial Inmates in San Francisco Need Time in Sunlight [courthousenews.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) · 2/9/206:04 PM

By Maria Dinzeo, Courthouse News Service, February 3, 2020 For years, the city and county of San Francisco has housed inmates awaiting trial in tiny cells, letting them out for only a few hours a day for exercise and often depriving them of any time outdoors, but conditions are set to improve for some after a federal judge ruled Friday that pretrial detainees incarcerated for more than four years must be given at least one hour a week of access to direct sunlight. The order handed down by...

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