Pennsylvania inmates with mental illness no longer subject to solitary confinement

Deal aims to end solitary confinement for seriously mentally ill prisoners in Pa.

The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections has reached a settlement with the Disability Rights Network of Pennsylvania requiring sweeping reforms in the care of inmates with serious mental illness in the state’s prison system. Inmates with serious mental illness or intellectual disabilities no longer will be subject to solitary confinement, according to the terms of the settlement, reached late Monday.