Pelican Bay Prison: A National Disgrace?

San francisco a federal judge, deploring the senseless suffering and sometimes wretched misery of inmates in notorious pelican bay prison, ordered the state. In recent years, the controversy surrounding pelican bay has culminated in multiple lawsuits and hunger strikes by inmates protesting their conditions. The state has been. Over the last two decades, pelican bay, californias notoriously brutal supermax prison, has housed thousands of people who are locked in solitary cells, 23 hours a day, for. Only 10 years old, the overcrowded state prison on 275 acres in northwest california outside crescent city has been the scene of riots, the subject of litigation accusing guards of violent.