Mr. Beard also said that the state was in the process of making changes to the way it runs the solitary-confinement program, but that those changes could be delayed by the hunger strike. Mr. Lobel called that claim disingenuous.
James W. Marquart, a former Texas prison official who has testified for California in the court cases, said that when Texas faced similar federal lawsuits, it “made the changes and got on with it.”
“Everyone believes that California is the leader, but decades ago Texas just said, ‘To heck with it, we have to do what the court says,’ ” Dr. Marquart said. “It’s layer upon layer of problems that you either have to deal with or you are going to get bled dry on the legal fees to fight it to the death.”
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