Happy Friday from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle Now. I'm Ruby Deluna, and here are today's top stories. It's Friday, April 12th.

More than 100 formerly homeless Native Americans in King County now have a safe place to live. Today, Chief

Seattle Club opens Sacred Medicine House on Lake City Way. It's a five-story apartment building

covered with indigenous murals. Executive Director Derek Bellgard says they plan to open a building

like this every year for the next five or six years.

We're not here to lower the native homelessness rate. We're not here to just make mere progress.

We're here to end chronic single adult native homelessness forever in this region.

Native Americans make up just 1% of King County's population, but 15% of homeless

adults are indigenous. County Deputy Executive Shannon Braddock spoke at today's opening ceremony.

The disproportionality of Native Americans in our chronic homeless population is inexcusable. It's a direct result of the

settler colonialism that forced Seattle's first peoples off their ancestral lands. The new residents of

Sacred Medicine House will start moving in on the 29th. Washington's Department of Corrections

is working to limit solitary confinement in its prisons,

but as Olympia correspondent Jeannie Lindsay reports, advocates say the legislature hasn't done enough to make sure that happens.

Washington corrections officials say they need $280 million to reduce the use of solitary confinement.

Lawmakers set aside less than $3 million this year, and advocates say right now, there's nothing

requiring the department to meet its goals. I think our concern is that DOC will continue to ask

for money with no strings attached to fund a plan that has no guarantee or teeth.

That's Rachel Sievers from Disability Rights Washington.

She and other advocates wanted the legislature to put certain restrictions around solitary confinement into law this year.

But the bill died.

Corrections officials say it will take about five years to

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