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 02/20/25 - Introduced

 AB-1140 Single-Occupancy Cell Pilot Program. (2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 07/03/2025 09:00 PM

AB1140:v98#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 July 03, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 1140

Introduced by Assembly Member Connolly

February 20, 2025

 An act to add Section 2069 to the Penal Code, relating to prisons. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1140, as amended, Connolly.
 Single-Occupancy Cell Pilot Program. 

Existing law establishes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and sets forth its powers and duties regarding the administration of correctional facilities and the care and custody of inmates. Existing law vests in the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation the supervision, management, and control of the state prisons, and the responsibility for the care, custody, treatment, training, discipline, and employment of persons confined in the state prisons.

This bill, the Single-Occupancy Cell Pilot Program of 2026, would require the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to develop and implement a pilot program to house people who are incarcerated at 4 adult prison facilities in single-occupancy cells by January 1, 2027. The bill would require the secretary to select the 4 facilities and
 establish criteria to determine who will be housed in single-occupancy cells. The bill would require the pilot program to apply to 10% of the population housed at each of the 4 facilities. The bill would require that participation in the program be voluntary, as specified. The bill would require the secretary, by March 15, 2028, to transmit a publicly available report to the Governor and the Legislature detailing specified information pertaining to the pilot program, including the number of incarcerated persons housed in single-cell occupancy cells under the pilot program and participating in education assignments by facility, as specified. 

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the California corrections system promote, to the best extent, increased public safety by reducing recidivism through community-based corrections programs and evidence-based practice.

(b) (1) To properly be able to engage in rehabilitative programming offered by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, incarcerated persons must be able to sleep without fear of physical harm.

(2) A study examining 568 male prisoners noted a statistically significant mean increase in systolic
 blood pressure (SBP) when they were moved from single-occupancy cells to multiple-occupancy dormitories (D’Atri, et al., Crowding in Prison: The Relationship Between Changes in Housing Mode and Blood Pressure (1981) 43 (2) Psychosomatic Medicine, pp. 95-105). For those who remained in a single cell, the study noted little mean change in SBP. Rises in SBP are associated with stress and can lead to other health complications like heart disease.

(3) Sleep deprivation is linked to decreased mood and can undermine emotional capacity or the ability to experience positive emotions like joy, happiness, and contentment. In addition to blunting these emotions, sleep deprivation increases anxiety (Palmer, et al., Sleep Loss and Emotion: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Over 50 Years of Experimental Research (2024) 150 (4) Psychological Bulletin, pp. 440-463). When individuals are in a state of anxiety, they function from a heightened amygdala,
 which places a person in a state of “fight or flight.”

(4) Moreover, sleep deprivation degrades normal reciprocal associations, which means that it impairs a person’s ability to read simple and complex social cues that can result in misreading of perceived threats. Individuals who have restful sleep (i.e., those able to engage in REM sleep) were able to have a next-day improvement in emotional discrimination. This highlights the psychological and physiological importance of restorative sleep (Goldstein-Piekarski, et al., Sleep Deprivation Imp