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This is an enormous... step toward getting seriously mentally ill prisoners out of solitary confinement and into treatment.

Rebecca Wallace, staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, on a decision by Colorado's interim director of prisons to no longer send prisoners with major mental illness to solitary confinement.

Rebecca Wallace, staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, on a decision by Colorado's interim director of prisons to no longer send prisoners with major mental illness to solitary confinement.

Daniel Luzer is GOVERNING's news editor.