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  2. Pelican Bay State Prison - Wikipedia

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    After Pelican Bay State Prison opened in 1989, guards eager to assert their dominance over the inmates established a culture of violence. Inmates in the Security Housing Unit were beaten, tied and left naked, or subjected to staged "gladiator fights" by guards who would intentionally release two prisoners from enemy gangs and then shoot at the prisoners after they began fighting. [7]

  3. 2013 California prisoner hunger strike - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] The hunger strike was organized by inmates in long term solitary in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay State Prison in protest of inmates housed there that were in solitary confinement indefinitely for having supposed gang ties. [2] Another hunger strike that added to the movement started the week before in High Desert State ...

  4. List of California state prisons - Wikipedia

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    California's only death row for men is at San Quentin. The prison was constructed by incarcerated men on the Waban, a ship anchored in San Francisco Bay and California's first prison. Sierra Conservation Center: SCC Tuolumne: 1965 Yes 3,836 4,012 104.6% Valley State Prison: VSP Madera: 1995 Yes 1,980 2,971 150.1% Wasco State Prison: WSP Kern ...

  5. Hot Docs’ ‘The Strike,’ About the Fight Against ... - AOL

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    The doc tells the story of America’s supermax prison Pelican Bay, which opened in 1989 and was designed specifically for mass-scale solitary confinement. For decades, the California prison held ...

  6. A terminally ill prisoner didn't want his gang to die with ...

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    For 25 years, Castellanos lived under the most restrictive conditions the state prison system could offer: the Security Housing Unit, or SHU, at Pelican Bay.

  7. Solitary confinement in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Opened in 1989, California's Pelican Bay State Prison was one of the nation's first and most prolific supermaximum-security prisons. Consisting exclusively of solitary confinement cells, the Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit (SHU) was designed to house incarcerated people in isolation for almost 23 hours a day with virtually no human contact.

  8. California prison on generator power after wildfires knock ...

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    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 ...

  9. California State Prison, Corcoran - Wikipedia

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    In July 2013, many inmates at COR participated in a state-wide hunger strike protesting the use of solitary confinement. [24] Billy Michael Sell, an inmate in COR who had been participating in the hunger strike, committed suicide by hanging himself while in a Security Housing Unit (SHU). [25] He had been protesting from July 8 to July 21.

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