Transforming Lives Behind Bars. In the heart of California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, an innovative experiment in higher ...

The Pelican Bay State Prison, which opened in 1989, served as a limit case for the practice of solitary confinement. As the documentary outlines, the building of that “state-of-the-art ...

The high-security Pelican Bay prison was designed for mass-scale solitary confinement, often for a decade or more, and with little due process. In 2013, 30,000 incarcerated people went on a hunger ...

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 ...

Among the second chances offered in U.S. prisons is the first in-person bachelor’s program inside a maximum security yard.