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.” ...

The Strike, a documentary by JoeBill Munoz and Lucas Guilkey, provides the viewer with an enthralling and engrossing look at ...

Pelican Bay, opened in 1989 in Crescent City, became the blueprint for maximum security facilities now known as Supermax prisons. With 1,000 units dedicated to solitary confinement, the conditions ...

When California opened the Pelican Bay State Prison in 1989, it was considered a model of its "supermax" type, designed as a maximum security institution for "the worst of the worst." At the time ...

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 ...