district court judge felton henderson in san francisco stopped short of shutting down the prison are its dreaded shoe or security housing unit here. so attorneys both for the state and for the inmates claimed victory. >> i think in different areas i think different parties won. >> responding to the point about this somehow can be construed in any way as a state victory or as a split decision is very much like saying that germany didn't lose world war ii because the country still exists. >> reporter: although the judge did say the state can continue to house inmates in windowless 8x10-foot cells in the shoe, he did order restrictions. he said the state cannot imprison mentally ill inmates here because of the extreme isolation of spending 22.5 hours a day in the cell. he said: "placing them in the shoe is the mental equivalent of putting an asthmatic in a place with little air to breathe." judge henderson also said prison officials used excessive force against inmates, denied them basic psychiatric and medical care, and called internal investigations and brutal complaints" counterfeit.