California to End Automatic Racial Segregation of Inmates

California prison officials announced that starting in March 2006, they would end their practice of automatically segregating inmates according to race.

The decision was the result of a legal settlement in a series of legal challenges that started in 1995 when a California inmate sought to change the practice.

• The Inmates' Lawyer
• Calif. Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation
• Civil Rights and Your Legal Rights  (FindLaw)