On a recent media tour, journalists got glimpse of that life on a visit to the Security Housing Units at Pelican Bay State Prison. Nearly 1,200 men are housed in the complex of low, concrete buildings ...

As one of the many Security Housing Unit prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison, I felt obligated to comment on a recent article (”Report calls SHU in Pelican Bay ‘degrading’,” Times-Standard, Oct. 10, ...

For 60 days this summer, thousands of inmates joined a hunger strike to focus attention on conditions in the Security Housing Units, or SHUs, at Pelican Bay and other state prisons. They say ...

60 Minutes special contributor Oprah Winfrey reported from Pelican Bay, the notorious state penitentiary, this week. The prison is known for its security housing unit, or SHU, which was designed to ...

A recent Amnesty International report examining conditions in Secure Housing Units in state prisons, with a focus on Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, found that California’s SHUs “breach ...

A federal judge says inmates held in isolation for more than a decade at California's Pelican Bay State Prison can proceed with a lawsuit accusing the state of subjecting them to mental torture and ...

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Pelican Bay State Prison inmate Jeremy Beasley, 39, a member of the Nazi Low-Riders and then elevated to the Aryan Brotherhood, shows his tattoos. At Pelican Bay since 1998, Beasley went to prison on ...

Vince Beiser is a California-based freelance writer who writes often on criminal justice issues. It’s quiet in pod C5, deep inside Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit, home to about 1,200 ...

California prisons have isolated gang bosses in stark conditions for years, sometimes for decades. But last month’s inmate hunger strike at Pelican Bay State Prison near the Oregon border has prompted ...

Nicole Colson and Gillian Russom report on the end of a hunger strike by California prisoners--and the solidarity their courageous protest sparked around the U.S. AFTER PROMISES of reform from state ...

“What is of note here and something that should concern all U.S. citizens, is the increasing use of behavioral control, i.e. Torture units and human experimental techniques against prisoners, not only ...