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.” ...

His 22 classmates inside B Facility at Pelican Bay State Prison were skeptical ... passed up a chance to transfer to a lower-security prison because of his Humboldt classes.

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Years ago when I visited Pelican Bay State Prison on the northern ... a hostage situation involving a visitor at the maximum security facility, which houses violent and dangerous ...