60 Minutes has reported on the prison's SHU before. Mike Wallace went there in 1993 to report on conditions at a time when the state touted Pelican Bay as "the wave of the future" in corrections.

A man who walked away from Pelican Bay State Prison's minimum support facility is back in custody,According to the California ...

CRESCENT CITY — A man convicted in Santa Clara County being held at Pelican Bay State Prison has been accused of killing another inmate at the correctional facility, according to the California ...

State prison officials allowed the media to tour Pelican' Bay's secure housing unit, known as the SHU, where inmates are isolated for 22 1/2 hours a day in windowless, soundproofed cells to ...

Some locals fought the building of Pelican Bay; Sacramento tried to placate them with promises of a forested buffer, a margin of trees to hide what was, at the time, the highest security prison in ...

A Pelican Bay State Prison inmate was killed by two other inmates Thursday night and authorities are investigating the deadly attack, state corrections officials said Friday. Killed was 35-year ...

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.

CRESCENT CITY, Del Norte County -- A Richmond man incarcerated at Pelican Bay State Prison was sentenced on Thursday to 11 more years and 3 months for participating in a conspiracy to possess with ...

Last week flames came within about 5 miles (8 kilometers) of Pelican Bay State Prison, but firefighters protected communities around the maximum-security lockup that houses about 1,600 inmates in ...

Pelican Bay State Prison officials are investigating the Saturday death of an inmate as a potential homicide. In a news release, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said ...

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.