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Slaying casts pall on plan to reduce solitary confinement
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California's efforts to ease its famously harsh use of solitary confinement are clashing with a bloody reality after an inmate who spent decades alone in a tiny cell was sent back to the general population and killed by fellow inmates within days.
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Huge California fire mostly spares infrastructure
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Nearly an inch of rain, with more wet weather forecast for the weekend, has helped firefighters gain the upper hand on a massive wildfire burning in the mountains east of Sacramento, officials said Friday.
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