For 60 days this summer, thousands of inmates joined a hunger strike to focus attention on conditions in the Security Housing Units, or SHUs, at Pelican Bay and other state prisons. They say ...

Officers at Pelican Bay tear apart a Secure Housing Unit — or SHU — cell after learning an inmate may have gotten hold of a metal binder clip and fashioned it into a weapon. A view of the hallway in a ...

This story was produced in collaboration between The Marshall Project and CatchLight as part of a three-year Mental Health Visual Desk Reporting Initiative. One morning in July 2013, tens of thousands ...

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The isolation units at California's Pelican Bay prison hold more than 1,200 inmates. They live in small, windowless cells, often for years, with... At Pelican Bay Prison, a Life in Solitary At Pelican ...