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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]
A corrections counselor at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City is suing the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for interest on back pay that was seized in what he ...
Pelican Bay State Prison: PBSP Del Norte: 1989 2,380 2,608 109.6% Pleasant Valley State Prison: PVSP Fresno: 1994 2,308 3,062 132.7% Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility: RJD San Diego: 1987 Yes 2,992 3,806 127.2% Salinas Valley State Prison: SVSP Monterey: 1996 2,452 2,877 117.3% San Quentin State Prison: SQ Marin: 1852 Yes
It rained heavily the night before the retaking of New York's Attica Correctional Facility. ... judge finding a pattern of egregious violence perpetrated by guards at Pelican Bay State Prison ...
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 ...
California opened Corona and Pelican Bay State prisons in the late 1980s, which were two of the first and largest supermax prisons to be erected. [9] In the case of Madrid v. Gomez in 1995, the U.S. district court for Northern California determined that a significant number of inmates held in SHU units within Pelican Bay prison suffered from ...
A prison inmate convicted of a deadly shooting in Turlock eight years ago is suspected of attempting to kill a correctional officer at Pelican Bay State Prison on Saturday.
For the most violent, powerful, and infamous inmates, this is the last stop in prison purgatory: Pelican Bay State Prison, California. For two decades it’s been at the heart of California’s war on one of the greatest scourges in America—prison gangs. The facility houses the state's most violent offenders, and is populated by numerous gang ...