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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. 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 ...

  4. Prisons in California - Wikipedia

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    The California state prison system is a system of prisons, fire camps, contract beds, reentry programs, and other special programs administered by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) Division of Adult Institutions to incarcerate approximately 117,000 people as of April 2020. [1]

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

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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. California prison deaths from drug overdoses surged in 2023 ...

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    With a lower prison population than in previous years, California’s 2023 numbers represent a record high overdose death rate of at least 62 per 100,000 prisoners — and the numbers are likely ...

  7. List of California county jails - Wikipedia

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    The following counties do not have jails: Alpine County: [125] jail services are contracted to El Dorado County and Calaveras County.; Sierra County: [126] this county does not have an official jail tracked by the Board of State and Community Corrections, but the Sheriff's website says that "as of March 17, 2015 the Sierra County Jail began operating as a Temporary Housing Facility".

  8. Supporters say 'warmhearted' alleged Mexican Mafia member ...

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    In a letter, Canales said her son's participation in a 2011 hunger strike over conditions in the maximum-security prison at Pelican Bay led to her own "awakening as to the harsh reality of human ...

  9. 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.