Social Issues

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FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2016 file photo, condemned inmate Donald DeBose does pushups in a caged recreation yard space of the adjustment center on death row at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. A settlement of a lawsuit by inmates against the state of California, obtained by The Associated Press, says the state no longer will keep inmates in the center just for being gang members. Inmates can still be sent to the windowless cells if they are considered an immediate danger. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

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FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2017 file photo, the Capitol is seen at sunup in Washington. House Republicans on March 6, released their long-awaited plan for unraveling former President Barack Obama's health care law, a package that would scale back the government's role in health care and likely leave more Americans uninsured. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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A large crowd listens to speakers during a public dialogue with officials and hundreds of refugees and immigrants at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Sunday, March 5, 2017, in Durham, N.C. (Bernard Thomas/The Herald-Sun via AP)

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FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2017, file photo, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker delivers his state budget address at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. Walker says his budget proposal sets the state up for a sunny future. But that depends on how you look at it. Critics say accounting maneuvers obscure the fact that the state's true deficit would jump to more than $2 billion for the first time since 2012 under Walker's proposal. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)

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Carlos Gonzalez Gutierrez, center, Mexico's consul general in Austin, waits to give testimony to the Committee on International Trade and Intergovernmental Affairs at the Texas Capitol, Monday, March 6, 2017, in Austin, Texas. Officials from Mexico and Texas are urging the state's lawmakers to defend the North American Free Trade Agreement against President Donald Trump's administration, which has been wary of it. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Carlos Gonzalez Gutierrez, center left, Mexico's consul general in Austin, gives testimony to the Committee on International Trade and Intergovernmental Affairs at the Texas Capitol, Monday, March 6, 2017, in Austin, Texas. Officials from Mexico and Texas are urging the state's lawmakers to defend the North American Free Trade Agreement against President Donald Trump's administration, which has been wary of it. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Members of the transgender community take part in a rally on the steps of the Texas Capitol, Monday, March 6, 2017, in Austin, Texas. The group is opposing a "bathroom bill" that would require people to use public bathrooms and restrooms that correspond with the sex on their birth certificate. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Texas Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, front, backed by Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, center, and other legislators talks to the media during a news conference to discuss Senate Bill 6 at the Texas Capitol, Monday, March 6, 2017, in Austin, Texas. The "bathroom bill" would require people to use public bathrooms and restrooms that correspond with the sex on their birth certificate. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Libby Gonzales stands with her father, Frank Gonzales, as she joins other members of the transgender community during a rally on the steps of the Texas Capitol, Monday, March 6, 2017, in Austin, Texas. The group is opposing a "bathroom bill" that would require people to use public bathrooms and restrooms that correspond with the sex on their birth certificate. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Members of the transgender community take part in a rally on the steps of the Texas Capitol, Monday, March 6, 2017, in Austin, Texas. The group is opposing a "bathroom bill" that would require people to use public bathrooms and restrooms that correspond with the sex on their birth certificate. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, center, with other legislators and supporters of Senate Bill 6, talks to the media at the Texas Capitol, Monday, March 6, 2017, in Austin, Texas. The "bathroom bill" would require people to use public bathrooms and restrooms that correspond with the sex on their birth certificate. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, with other legislators and supporters of Senate Bill 6, talks to the media at the Texas Capitol, Monday, March 6, 2017, in Austin, Texas. The "bathroom bill" would require people to use public bathrooms and restrooms that correspond with the sex on their birth certificate. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Max Briggle, right, holds a sign as he joins other members of the transgender community during a rally on the steps of the Texas Capitol, Monday, March 6, 2017, in Austin, Texas. The group is opposing a "bathroom bill" that would require people to use public bathrooms and restrooms that correspond with the sex on their birth certificate. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Texas Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, right, looks back at Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, center, and other legislators as they hold a news conference to discuss Senate Bill 6 at the Texas Capitol, Monday, March 6, 2017, in Austin, Texas. The "bathroom bill" would require people to use public bathrooms and restrooms that correspond with the sex on their birth certificate. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Members of the transgender community take part in a rally on the steps of the Texas Capitol, Monday, March 6, 2017, in Austin, Texas. The group is opposing a "bathroom bill" that would require people to use public bathrooms and restrooms that correspond with the sex on their birth certificate. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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In this Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2016 photo, George Abila, who won a nearly $2 million lawsuit against New Mexico's Eddy County over his treatment while held in solitary confinement, sits in his attorney's office in Albuquerque, N.M. Former jail inmates have won more than $20 million in judgments in recent years against New Mexico counties over their treatment while held in solitary confinement. With more cases pending, state lawmakers are debating a proposal that would ban solitary confinement for juveniles, pregnant women and inmates with mental illness. (AP Photo/Mary Hudetz)

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FILE - This undated file photo released by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate Rolando Ruiz. Ruiz is scheduled to die Tuesday, March 7, 2017, for the murder-for-hire slaying he carried out more than 24 years ago. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP, File)

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This undated photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows death row inmate Patrick Leonard, convicted of the kidnapping, assault, attempted rape and aggravated murder of his former girlfriend Dawn Flick on July 29, 2000, in her home in the Hamilton County village of New Baltimore, Ohio. Leonard died of an apparent suicide Sunday, March 5, 2017, on death row in Chillicothe, Ohio, according to the Ohio prisons agency. (Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction via AP)

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In this Sunday, March 5, 2017, photo, Leslie Kurtz, right, poses for a picture with her husband, Bart Bartram, daughter Rainey, and son Rio as she holds a print of an X-ray of her ankle, in Knoxville, Tenn. Leslie Kurtz needed three plates, eight screws and a big assist from her insurer after breaking every bone in her ankle during a whitewater rafting accident in 2015. Coverage she purchased through a public insurance exchange established by the federal health care law helped with her medical expenses, but that protection may not exist next year because insurers have abandoned her exchange. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)