SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Special California prisons intended to protect gang informants, disgraced cops and child molesters have become so violent, gang-riddled and crowded that officials are dismantling what’s become the United States’ largest protective custody program.
The inmates are gradually being integrated into the general prison population, where some advocacy groups fear they will be even worse off.
California created the so-called Sensitive Needs Yards nearly two decades ago.
By 2015, their population ballooned to about a third of the state prison system’s 130,000 inmates, with all the problems of a mainline prison: nearly 100 gangs; smuggling of drugs like the Fentanyl that killed one inmate and sickened 12 this s…
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