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Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) is a supermax prison facility in Crescent City, California. The 275-acre (111 ha) prison takes its name from a shallow bay on the Pacific coast, about 2 mi (3.2 km) to the west.
Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) is designed to house California’s most serious criminal offenders in a secure, safe, and disciplined institutional setting. Half of the prison houses maximum security inmates in a general population (GP) setting.
The following photos provide an inside glimpse into the Security Housing Units (SHUs), or solitary confinement units, at Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP). A new report by prison officials estimates up to 100,000 people may be in solitary confinement in U.S. prisons.
Pelican Bay State was the most violent prison in California. Here’s how inmates turned that around. By Paul Critz Updated March 21, 2022 11:25 a.m. A prison within the prison, the...
This is the Security Housing Unit -- or the SHU (pronounced "SHOE") -- at Pelican Bay State Prison in northern California. With more than 1,200 inmates, it's one of the largest and oldest...
COMPSTAT Operational Performance Measures. Inmate Population Reports. View PBSP Facility Landing Page.
California's Pelican Bay Prison is the most notorious state penitentiary in America. Designed and built as a "supermax" facility, it's been used for nearly 30 years to lock away inmates...
Today, incarcerated people in Facility D, the former Security Housing Unit (SHU), no longer need to request an officer’s assistance to plug in electrical appliances through a small security hole in their cell wall. Now, they simply do it themselves because the prison installed electrical inside every cell.
Two years have passed since people confined in California’s Pelican Bay State Prison initiated a 60-day hunger strike to protest the conditions associated with the prison’s “security housing unit,” or SHU.
How the men in Pelican State Prison influence the community outside, one another, and inmates across California.