As a guard said during a tour of the Pelican Bay SHU yesterday, the inmates there are "the modern-day Al Capones of California." The SHU inmates are locked in cells for more than 22 hours a day. Some ...

Oprah goes inside Pelican Bay State Prison 00:43. Oprah Winfrey visits California's Pelican Bay State Prison and the infamous Security Housing Unit that has been controversial for years and once ...

After COVID shut down all classes inside Pelican Bay, I lost touch with David. The podcast continued production, though, thanks to permission I’d gotten to record phone calls with my students.

Yesterday, California prison officials took a handful of reporters to Pelican Bay State Prison to get a view inside. KPCC's Julie Small was one of them. Support for LAist comes from.

The image is grainy, the fixed camera angle is awkward, and the audio is muffled and scratchy. But the revelatory footage, shot inside California’s supermax Pelican Bay prison, strips bare a moment in ...

Bryant said he was scared of the prison’s reputation when he came to Pelican Bay at age 19. “In the beginning, I would have left so fast,” he said. “But there’s too much positive stuff here.

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.

Today, Pelican Bay State Prison wants to be a model again. One 900-square-foot classroom, ... It’s also the state’s first in-person bachelor’s initiative inside a maximum security yard.

Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California, ... 34, of Los Angeles County, stabbed the guard with a manufactured weapon inside a prison dining hall about 7:15 a.m. ...

His 22 classmates inside B Facility at Pelican Bay State Prison were skeptical: Just two weeks earlier, Mariscal had used his presentation time to give step-by-step directions on how to make a peanut ...

Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California, ... 34, of Los Angeles County, stabbed the guard with a manufactured weapon inside a prison dining hall about 7:15 a.m. ...

His 22 classmates inside B Facility at Pelican Bay State Prison were skeptical: Just two weeks earlier, Mariscal had used his presentation time to give step-by-step directions on how to make a ...