Transforming Lives Behind Bars. In the heart of California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, an innovative experiment in higher ...

Pelican Bay State Prison houses inmates ranging from minimum security all the way to maximum. There are about 1,800 inmates ...

In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would become a months-long hunger strike.

A Sacramento County inmate at Pelican Bay State Prison is one of three facing attempted homicide charges in an attack on a guard Thursday morning, said state corrections officials. Officials at ...

WASHINGTON —Years ago, when I visited Pelican Bay State Prison on the northern ... The “CDCR has a ‘NO HOSTAGE’ policy and all prison inmates, visitors, non-employees and employees shall ...

Three Aryan Brotherhood members were convicted of orchestrating murders and other crimes from California prisons. But will they ever be moved the most secure federal facility?

In 1995 a federal court examining the Security Housing Unit (SHU) of the Pelican Bay State Prison—a California supermax —found that “many, if not most, inmates in the SHU experience some ...

Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California, is surrounded by razor wire, tall fences and towers manned by guards with rifles.

WASHINGTON — Years ago, when I visited Pelican Bay State Prison on the northern ... The “CDCR has a ‘NO HOSTAGE’ policy and all prison inmates, visitors, non-employees and employees ...

As title cards inform viewers at the start of the film, Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit once held hundreds of inmates for more than a decade. Now, it’s nearly empty.