A California appeals court Wednesday upheld an order for the state’s super-max prison to stop punishing inmates by race, following four-year lockdowns of southern Latino inmates because officials feared their gang ties.

The warden of Pelican Bay State Prison contended race-based practices were forced by “long-standing and constant hostilities between rival Hispanic prison gangs,” whose “repeated efforts to attack each other at every opportunity” threaten prison safety…

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