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	Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		PBSP maintains a 296 bed Level I minimum support facility outside the security perimeter of the main institution.
		Pelican Bay State Prison was opened December 1989, and covers 275 acres.
		PBSP is located 370 miles north west of Sacramento, and 370 miles north of San Francisco
	www.cdcr.ca.gov /Visitors/fac_prison_PBSP.html (543 words)

	The Crime of punishment Pelican Bay Maximum Security Prison
		Pelican Bay as prototype prison of the future is a clear repudiation of the "treatment era" prison.
		Prisons are increasingly and disproportionately non-white, with the Pelican Bay SHU particularly targeting Latino-Americans.
		In the early 1950s, in the relatively freer atmosphere of the "treatment era" prison, Black prisoners began to seize and dominate the state's prison yards as a means of fighting segregation and reversing their position at the bottom of the convict caste system.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Prison_System/CrimePunish_Pelican.html (2799 words)

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		Prisoners considered capable of being reformed were housed by the "congregate method."[39] Congregate prisoners slept alone in a cell at night, but worked together in a workshop during the day.
		Prison officials routinely tell prisoners accused of gang affiliation that the only way out of the SHU is to "snitch, parole or die."[63] Within the SHU, there is an internal wing, known as the Violence Control Unit (VCU), which houses approximately forty to fifty prisoners.
		[243] The profundity and duration of confinement in the SHU is acute for all prisoners.
	www.fedcrimlaw.com /visitors/PrisonLore/romano1.html (7161 words)

	CMPP \| Supports The Hunger Strikers At Pelican Bay State Prison
		Steve Castillo and other inmates, in their effort to raise the consciousness of the public to the human rights violations suffered by prisoners in the SHU (Security Housing Units) at Pelican Bay State Prison and in “Concentration Prison Camps” across the U.S., have begun a massive and historic hunger strike.
		Prisoners have been housed in the SHU under this policy for 5, 10, 15 years or more.
		Other examples are: signing a card for a dying prisoner, prisoners assisting each other with legal work, or an issue of speech and an association that has absolutely nothing to do with gang affiliation or gang related matters.
	uniondelbarrio.org /cmpp/articles/pg05.html (822 words)

	Pelican Bay State Prison Medical Grievance Petition
		Prisoners in California’s prison are dying, becoming disabled and being neglected and returning to society worse off then when they entered prison.
		Prisoners are also denied medical treatment in retaliation for filing 602’s inmate grievance against the health care department.
		The State’s entrenched unwillingness and/or incapability to effectively discuss, let alone act upon, the crisis in California’s prisons underscores the critical importance of the court and the receivership in its attempts to assure inmates/patients of their constitutional rights.
	www.petitiononline.com /PBSP01/petition.html (1729 words)

	Pelican Bay on Hunger Strike
		Prison officials said they are monitoring the striking inmates carefully but have no plans to alter their policy.
		Under state regulations, male convicts determined to be gang members or associates may be sent to a security housing unit at Pelican Bay or at prisons in Corcoran and Tehachapi.
		The hunger strike at Pelican Bay is being led by Steven Castillo, a unit inmate convicted of first-degree murder who is challenging the state's assertion that he is a member of the Mexican Mafia.
	www.rohan.sdsu.edu /~rgibson/pelicanhunger.html (1241 words)

	Melee at Pelican Bay 7/00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pelican Bay prisoners widely believe that officials had advance warning that the February 23 melee was going to occur, yet allowed it to proceed.
		Prisoners report that in late October or early November, officials began releasing small groups of white and fl prisoners—between whom tensions were still high—onto the yard together.
		Prisoners must be afforded the ability to educate themselves, to work, and to spend their free time doing more than watching television in their cells.
	www.prisons.org /melee.htm (2008 words)

	Newspaper Picture Story-Award of Excellence
		A message smuggled into Pelican Bay State Prison in the rectal cavity of a Nuestra Familia gang member reports on the activity of the gang at the prison he was transferred from.
		An inmate in the Security Housing Unit at Pelican Bay State Prison removes all his clothing, spreads his toes and buttocks and is handcuffed without coming into physical contact with prison guards before a visit to the prison dentist.
		Pelican Bay Prison Guard George Sherman carries a rifle in the control room of the ultra-maximum Security Housing Unit, known as the SHU, whenever a guard enters one of the groups of 10 cells.
	www.sfbappa.org /Awards/picturestory/picstory28.ex2.html (433 words)

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		Pelican Bay, which sprawls over 275 acres just south of the Oregon border, in a Tolkienesque region of misty mountains and ancient redwood forests, was among the first of a wave of new prisons equipped with ultra-restrictive "supermax" lockups that have proliferated nationwide in recent years.
		Pelican Bay instituted several reforms as a result of the case, including creating a 127-bed psychiatric unit and beefing up its mental-health staff to a total of 79.
		Despite its oppressive security, there were 221 assaults in the Pelican Bay SHU last year—inmates assaulting guards when they are taken to court, for example, or by ingenious methods such as firing homemade blowguns though the perforations in their cell doors.
	www.supermaxed.com /Beiser-Pelican.htm (4375 words)

	Pelican Bay State Prison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pelican Bay opened in 1989 principally to house the growing population of maximum-security and high-security risk inmates in the California prison system.
		Prisoner advocates have argued that SHU imprisonment is cruel and unusual punishment, due to the lack of stimulation, activity and natural light given to these prisoners.
		The federal district court judge Thelton Henderson found in January 1995 that prisoners had been subjected to excessive violence, cruel and unusual punishment, and substandard medical care; he ruled that mentally ill inmates could no longer be confined in the SHU and he appointed a special master to oversee the conditions at the prison.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pelican_Bay_State_Prison (767 words)

	California's Security Housing Units (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pelican Bay SHU is the largest and most notorious of the California SHUs.
		In late 1995, CDoC opened a psychiatric treatment center in the adjacent maximum security facility in which prisoners are housed in SHU-like conditions- unacknowledged is the fact that prisoners with psychiatric disabilities are being disciplined and sentenced to SHU conditions for behavior caused by their illness.
		Prisoners with serious illness including AIDS are kept in the unit, their medical complaints ignored.
	www.prisonactivist.org /cpf/CPFshu.html (410 words)

	Rogue Valley Independent Media Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pelican Bay is now an international model of sensory deprivation and isolation; half the inmates are deemed incorrigible and locked in their cells 23 hours-a-day.
		Pelican Bay is overcrowded and tensions between prison gangs and guards results in violence to prisoners, abuse (psychological & physical) and rape.
		Prisoners are human beings and exploitation is exploitation whether it is behind the bars of the California Men's Colony or the barbed wires of a sweatshop in Indonesia.
	rogueimc.org /en/2006/09/7320.shtml (3618 words)

	Pelican Bay State Prison - prison stories, prison history, prison conditions, and inmate treatment for Pelican Bay ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pelican Bay, dubbed "the prison of the future" by the governor of California, opened in 1989 at a cost of $290 million.
		Most arrivals at Pelican Bay are inmates who have previous prison misbehaviour, such as inmate or guard assaults, weapon possession, or rioting, or gang members who refuse to "debrief," or disclose to authorities all information about their gang's activities, operations, or membership.
		Prisoners are allowed one parcel from their family a year, are prohibited phone calls, and can see visitors only on weekends, with the standard no-contact stipulations.
	www.insideprison.com /Pelican-Bay-State-Prison.asp (739 words)

	Pelican Bay, Matt Cramer, California, prison, DAILY JOURNAL ARTICLE, corruption
		Cramer remains at the heart of allegations against Pelican Bay guards, providing key testimony as part of a wide-ranging investigation by the state Department of Corrections that haunts the institution and its officers.
		Sometime after being assigned to Pelican Bay, Cramer recalls Garcia standing in the background and nodding as an inmate told him to lure another prisoner into an attack with the warning, "hit or be hit." Predatory inmates also repeatedly asked him to assault child molesters, Cramer said.
		And last month, a former Pelican Bay prisoner who testified in the preliminary hearing against Bolter and was going to testify in the trial, was found dead in a Redwood City motel room one day after his release from protective custody at New Folsom Prison.
	www.angelfire.com /fl3/starke/mattcramer.html (1534 words)

	NPR : At Pelican Bay Prison, a Life in Solitary
		Prison officials at Pelican Bay say the 1,200 inmates here are in segregation because, since arriving in prison, they have been the most violent, dangerous inmates in California.
		In the psychiatric SHU at Pelican Bay, one inmate stands in the middle of his cell, hollering at no one in particular.
		Prison officials say that removing the most dangerous gang members and putting them in segregation makes regular prisons safer for the rest of the inmates -- and it weakens the gangs.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5584254 (2721 words)

	Workers World March 9, 2000: Pelican Bay prison explosion of anger
		On Feb. 23 guards at Pelican Bay State Prison used deadly force against prisoners who were fighting in the B yard facility of the prison.
		According to the prison administration, one prisoner was killed, 15 were injured by gunshots and 32 injured in the fighting.
		Prisoners are placed in the SHU either for violent acts while in prison or for being labeled gang members.
	www.workers.org /ww/2000/pelican0309.php (861 words)

	Use of Force
		State regulations and federal law provide the general framework for the use of force in correctional settings, allowing force to be used under certain conditions.
		Prison officials have the ‘unenviable task of keeping dangerous men in safe custody under humane conditions.’ There is no question that this demanding and often thankless undertaking will require prison staff to use force against inmates.
		Pelican Bay has served as a laboratory for the development of a use-of-force policy that could be applied throughout the system.
	cpr.ca.gov /report/indrpt/corr/report/4.htm (3481 words)

	CA- Pelican Bay State Prison: Behind the walls - Prison Talk
		Prisoners who will only be in the prison for a short time, like someone serving a month or so because of a parole violation, would also be housed here.
		Pelican Bay State Prison was opened in 1989 and was built to help accommodate the increasing maximum security population in the California Department of Corrections.
		Examples of prison gangs are Mexican Mafia, the Nuestra Familia, the Northern Structure, the Aryan Brotherhood, the Black Guerrilla Family, the Nazi Lowriders and the Texas Syndicate.
	www.prisontalk.com /forums/showthread.php?t=43399 (4837 words)

	Santa Rosa Press Democrat Special Report: Operation Black Widow
		The gang originated in 1968 inside the state prison as a means of protection for Latino inmates from rural Northern California communities, and its imprisoned leaders are suspected of being responsible for at least 300 killings over three decades in state prisons and on the streets.
		State prison officials say that the Nuestra Familia and Mexican Mafia have become the two most powerful prison gangs in the state prison system.
		James "Tibbs" Morado and Cornelio Tristan, two of the three imprisoned "generals" in the prison gang's high command, face federal charges of conspiracy to murder and racketeering for their alleged roles in a string of violent crimes and drug dealing in the North Bay, the Central Valley and the Central Coast.
	www.pressdemocrat.com /pelican/0421_main.html (1568 words)

	Pelican Bay Prison Project - History
		Pelican Bay is now an international model of sensory deprivation and isolation; half the inmates are deemed incorrigible and locked in their
		As a result, Pelican Bay inmates are getting new convictions and becoming permanently trapped in prison, regardless of their original conviction.
		Federal court papers are replete with other heinous examples of abuse at Pelican Bay, such as the notorious case of guards and medical staff who boiled an inmate alive.
	www.pelicanbayprisonproject.org /history.htm (2039 words)

	Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Located on 275 acres in the northwest corner of California, Pelican Bay State Prison is designed to house the state's most serious criminal offenders in a secure, safe and disciplined institutional setting.
		PBSP maintains a 296 bed Level I minimum support facility outside the security perimeter of the main institution.
		Pelican Bay State Prison was opened December 1989, and covers 275 acres.
	www.corr.ca.gov /Visitors/fac_prison_PBSP.html (543 words)

	Recording Carceral Landscapes
		The Pelican Bay Wilderness Area is a proposal to allow the young redwood forest to reclaim the super-max prison.
		Only minor modifications to the current infrastructure are required: the prison’s 5,000-volt electrical fence is de-installed and all heavy doors and windows are removed.
		After several years, prolific vegetation would literally tear the remains of the former prison to the ground reducing the former prison to a soft footprint on the thriving forest floor.
	www.paglen.com /carceral/pelican_bay_reclamation.htm (243 words)

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		By Rex Bossert State officials sounded surprisingly upbeat and willing to cooperate with a monitor appointed by a San Francisco federal judge, who ruled in a landmark decision Wednesday that the use of excessive force and inadequate health care at California's state of the art Pelican Bay State Prison violate inmates' rights.
		The suit was a consolidation of nearly 300 separate suits filed by Pelican Bay prisoners and brought before Henderson in a three month bench trial that ended a year ago.
		But state Department of Corrections officials were also quick to claim victory, noting that Henderson did not shut down the high tech prison or significantly fault the basic conditions of confinement.
	eserver.org /govt/pelican-bay.txt (999 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State -- Pelican Bay painter disciplined for running prison business
		While Donny Johnson hasn't profited from his art – all the money is being used to start a program for children of inmates – prison officials said he was wrongfully engaged in a business without the warden's permission.
		In the “prison within a prison,” Johnson lives in an 8-by-12-foot concrete cell.
		To alleviate boredom and loneliness, Johnson turned to art and got the attention of Stephen Kurtz, a semiretired psychoanalyst who runs the nonprofit Pelican Bay Prison Project and became a pen-pal with Johnson four years ago.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/state/20060804-1632-ca-prisonpainter.html (760 words)

	Support the Pelican Bay State Prison Peace Summit
		Their primary stated reason for its construction was to reduce prison violence by segregating alleged gang leaders and members.
		We knew there were a number of associate wardens here at PBSP, as well as Institutional Gang Investigation (IGI) unit administration in Sacramento, along with the CA Corrections Peace Officers Association (CCPOA, prison guards union) who did not want this truce to take place or to take hold.
		The organizers at Pelican Bay are setting a good example for people behind bars and on the streets, and we will work with them to take the struggle to the next level, beyond peace and onto the united struggle for justice.
	www.etext.org /Politics/MIM/agitation/prisons/campaigns/ca/support.pelican.bay.peace.html (1048 words)

	Pelican Bay State Officials Battle Staph Outbreak - News
		Four correctional officers at the prison near Crescent City have filed claims alleging they suffered exposure, but one was determined to have a different infection.
		The problem became an issue this fall in a federal judge's ongoing oversight of problems at Pelican Bay, but the infection alleged by an officer in that case turned out to be a different disease, said Bach and California Correctional Peace Officers Association Vice President Lance Corcoran.
		Prisons are particularly vulnerable because so many people are jammed into tight quarters, and inmates suffer from more health problems than the general population, she said.
	www.ktvu.com /news/4037191/detail.html (540 words)

	Arcata Zen Group - Pelican Bay State Prison & County Jail Sanghas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pelican Bay State Prison and County Jail Sanghas
		In 2001, the Arcata Zen Group was contacted by an inmate incarcerated in Pelican Bay State Prison, near Crescent City, for help in establishing a Taoist/Buddhist Study Group.
		For our editable calendar of who is going to Pelican Bay when, click here.
	www.arcatazengroup.org /pelicanbay (146 words)

	THE WRONGFUL CONVICTION OF CARLOS LOVOS - PELICAN BAY STATE PRISON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pelican Bay State Prison Articles at Three Strikes
		Punishment for Prisoners Refusing to Double Cell at Pelican Bay State Prison
		Cruel and Unusual Punishment at Pelican Bay State Prison
	www.freecarloslovos.com /pelicanbay.html (97 words)

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