“When you first get out you’re happy to be free, you enjoy inhaling air that’s not in a concrete bunker,” said a man who had spent 18 years in solitary confinement in the infamous Security Housing ...

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 ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is investigating an attempted murder of an officer at Pelican ...