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New doc ‘The Strike’ details the prison hunger strike that made history
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 ...
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III. Supermax Prisons and the Psychological Effects of Isolation
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 ...
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'A relentlessly dull world' – the case for adding more colour to NZ’s grey prisons
The new expansion to https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/534989/waikeria-prison-on-track-to-become-aotearoa-s-largest ...