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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.
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.
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 ...
Humboldt's Pelican Bay program is not only the state's first bachelor's initiative at a max-security prison; earlier this year, it became the first program in the country approved under new ...
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.” ...
Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California, is surrounded by razor wire, tall fences and towers manned by guards with rifles. Mark Boster Los Angeles Times A Sacramento County inmate at ...
A prison inmate convicted of a deadly shooting in Turlock eight years ago is suspected of attempting to kill a correctional officer at Pelican Bay State Prison on Saturday.
Carlson Bryant is another student who declined a transfer to stay in Humboldt’s program. At 41 years old, he’s been at Pelican Bay since 2003, more than half his life. Bryant said he was scared of the ...
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.
Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California, is surrounded by razor wire, tall fences and towers manned by guards with rifles. Advertisement ...