The following is a press release from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: California Department of ...

A Sacramento County inmate at Pelican Bay State Prison is one of three facing attempted homicide charges in an attack on a ...

Years ago, when I visited Pelican Bay State Prison on the northern coast of California, prison staff explained the rules. They gave me a stab vest and a handy piece of information: If I were taken ...

An attempted homicide investigation is underway in a California state prison after a supervising correctional officer was ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are investigating the alleged attempted homicide of a peace officer at Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP). On Jan. 30 ...

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

Corrections and Rehabilitation officials are investigating the alleged attempted homicide of a peace officer at Pelican Bay State Prison. According to a statement from CDCR, approximately 7:15 ...

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.

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.

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 ...