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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Premieres Monday, Feb. 3, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. How California's Pelican Bay prison ignited a statewide hunger strike as a feat of unity by 30,000 incarcerated people.

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. ...

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.

The punishment was severe: He was sent to a special supermax unit at the state’s highest-security prison, Pelican Bay. The facility was designed to isolate men deemed the “worst of the worst.” ...

Today, Pelican Bay State Prison wants to be a model again. One 900-square-foot classroom, lined with computers, is now an accredited part of California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt.

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 ...