San Francisco’s alleged practice of not granting access to sunlight to inmates in jail is at the center of a lawsuit filed on behalf of incarcerated individuals against the Sheriff’s Office.

The lawsuit filed in May of 2019 went to court Tuesday and claims that denial of sunlight constitutes “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, as plaintiffs allege it has been linked to the development of chronic illnesses.

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Lydia Sidhom is a rising third-year at UC Berkeley studying Data Science and Political Science. She is a Dow Jones News Fund intern for Bay City News. Lydia was a lead beat reporter, deputy news editor and projects developer for The Daily Californian and will be a deputy projects editor there this fall. She enjoys telling stories through data. In her free time, Lydia loves to read, bake and travel.