Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California, is surrounded by razor wire, tall fences and towers manned by guards with rifles. Mark Boster Los Angeles Times A Sacramento County inmate at ...

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

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 ... that “state-of-the-art” penitentiary in the ...

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, 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.