Prisons in California will no longer use race or ethnicity to impose broad lockdowns on prisoners.

The change comes from a court settlement in a federal civil rights suit this week.

The suit was brought by prisoners after a warden at California's High Desert State prison confined African American prisoners to a wing of the prison for 14 months.

But the implications could go statewide.

For more, LA Times reporter Paige St. John weighs in.