On February 12, 2019, attorneys for people housed in Sacramento County Jails, filed a motion to challenge the  unconstitutional use of solitary confinement for people with serious mental illness and the ongoing lack of access to mental health care.

“This harm is too serious and too urgent to wait for the normal course of business,” said Margot Mendelson, an attorney with the Prison Law Office, in an interview with The Sacramento Bee.