Oprah Winfrey visits California's Pelican Bay State Prison and the infamous Security Housing Unit that has been controversial for years and once earned the "supermax" prison the nickname "Skeleton ...

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 ...

Project Rebound is a California State University program that supports the higher education and reintegration of formerly ...

Correctional officers fired 19 bullets from semi-automatic rifles and three hard foam rounds to break up the melee at Pelican Bay State Prison, located in Crescent City near the Oregon border ...

The Pelican Bay State Prison Security Housing was opened in 1989 to hold over 1,000 people in solitary confinement. It is embedded amidst the redwood forests on the remote Northern California coast.

(BCN) — A Pelican Bay State Prison inmate allegedly attacked and killed another inmate in a housing unit dayroom Friday evening. Fernando Torres Lopez, 23, allegedly attacked Uriel Otero ...

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. Officials at ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is investigating an attempted murder of an officer at Pelican ...

His 22 classmates inside B Facility at Pelican Bay State Prison were skeptical: Just two weeks earlier, Mariscal had used his presentation time to give step-by-step directions on how to make a peanut ...

SACRAMENTO — A federal judge has sentenced a Rodeo gang member to 11 years in prison for a plot to smuggle “balloons” of heroin and methamphetamine into Pelican Bay State Prison in 2017 ...