Pelican Bay State Prison - Wikipedia
Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) is a supermax prison in Crescent City, California. The 275-acre (111 ha) prison takes its name from a shallow bay on the Pacific coast, about 2 mi (3.2 km) to the west.
Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) - CDCR
Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) is designed to house California’s most serious criminal offenders in a secure, safe, and disciplined institutional setting. Half of the prison houses maximum security inmates in a general population (GP) setting.
Violent attack by 3 inmates hospitalizes California correctional ...
Jan 31, 2025 · Pelican Bay State Prison, founded in 1989, houses more than 2,000 medium, high and maximum-security inmates and is located just 13 miles from the Oregon-California border.
Attempted homicide of correctional officer being investigated at ...
Jan 31, 2025 · DEL NORTE, Calif. — California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is investigating an attempted murder of an officer at Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP). According to a press ...
Pelican Bay State Prison: The History, Inmate Life, and …
Apr 3, 2023 · Pelican Bay State Prison, located in Crescent City, California, is one of the most notorious maximum-security prisons in the United States. It is known for its high-security housing units that are designed to isolate the most violent and dangerous inmates in …
'The Strike' gives a behind-the-scenes look at solitary confinement ...
6 days ago · The Pelican Bay State Prison, which opened in 1989, served as a limit case for the practice of solitary confinement. As the documentary outlines, the building of that “state-of-the-art ...
At Pelican Bay Prison, a Life in Solitary : NPR
Jul 26, 2006 · The isolation units at California's Pelican Bay prison hold more than 1,200 inmates. They live in small, windowless cells, often for years, with virtually no human contact.
Pelican Bay State Prison | The Center for Land Use Interpretation
California's highest-security modern prison opened in 1989, to move the state's worst offenders out of antiquated facilities such as Folsom and San Quentin (which are now medium and minimum security).
How a Prison Hunger Strike Changed Solitary Confinement
Feb 3, 2025 · Official website: https://to.pbs.org/IL_2024 | #IndieLensPBSIn 2013, incarcerated individuals in California’s Pelican Bay Prison assembled a historic hunger ...
Reforming solitary confinement at infamous California prison
Oct 22, 2017 · Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit -- known as "the SHU" -- is solitary confinement by another name, and inmates and their advocates have long denounced it as state-sanctioned torture....