Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) is a supermax prison in Crescent City, California. The 275-acre (111 ha) prison takes its name from a shallow bay on the Pacific coast, about 2 mi (3.2 km) to the west. The prison is located in a detached section of Crescent City, several miles north of the main urban area and just south of the Oregon border. [4]

Mar 22, 2022 · Gardens and other rehabilitative programs have transformed the former SHU at Pelican Bay State Prison. The changes at Pelican Bay State Prison’s (PBSP) Facility D since 2014 have provided more opportunities for the incarcerated. How?

The other half of the institution housed incarcerated persons in the Security Housing Unit (SHU), designed for incarcerated persons presenting serious management concerns. PBSP has now been open for over three decades.

At Pelican Bay, the state’s first and most notorious supermax, the 1,500 occupants of the Security Housing Unit (SHU) and Administrative Housing Unit spend 22.5 hours a day alone in windowless cells measuring about 7 x 11 feet.

FINAL NOTICE: PBSP SHU D-Corridor Hunger Strike Attention: beginning July 1, 2011, several inmates housed indefinitely in PBSP-SHU D-Facility, Corridor Isolation, will begin an indefinite hunger strike in order to draw attention to, and to peacefully protest, 25 years of torture via CDCR's arbitrary, illegal, and progressively more punitive ...

Mar 7, 2016 · What CDCR did not consider was that the gang leaders it indefinitely isolated on the Short Corridor of the Special Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) would band together to stage hunger strike protests that would garner international media attention.

Aug 19, 2020 · The gray corridors are starting to be a little brighter on the Level II facility at Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) thanks to the creative art of the Mural Crew. Self-taught …

Any inmate assigned to the SHU may apply to use the SHU Law Library by completing the Law Library Access Request form, PBSP 14 Lib, and mailing it through the institutional mail to the Law Library.

Many of them are “buried alive” in the prison’s infamous SHU (Secure Holding Unit)—tiny, windowless concrete boxes where men are kept in long-term solitary confinement, in complete isolation for 23 hours a day.

Feb 26, 2018 · Those released to the PSU from SHU fared no better than others held in solitary confinement at PBSP. Prisoners in SHU continued to suffer mental, emotional and physical harm with no remedy made available by CDCr until we were released out to General Population units by the Departmental Review Board (DRB) between 2012 and 2014 and the Ashker v.