Dell’Arte International will premiere “We’re All We Need: Theatre at Pelican Bay,” a new documentary created in partnership with Malcolm DeSoto showcasing students of Dell’Arte’s long-running Prison ...

A few years ago, the idea of working at a law firm or earning a 4.0 GPA seemed out of reach for incarcerated individuals at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City. But today, that’s not just ...

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 ...

Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times via Getty;Tiffany Conover/ Pelican Bay State Prison Mark Taylor was eight years into his life sentence for a gang-related murder when, one afternoon in 2005, he says ...

Gangs an Unlikely Source of Order at Pelican Bay Pelican Bay is California’s maximum-security prison on the coast near the Oregon border—recently famous for hunger strikes and allegations of torture.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Todd Ashker and Danny Troxell are among the 78 prisoners who have lived for more than 20 years in notorious solitary confinement cells at a California prison. Troxell ...

SAN FRANCISCO — An appeals court on Wednesday ordered California's Pelican Bay State Prison to halt race-based punishment except during riots and other dire emergencies. The California Court of Appeal ...

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 ...

A guard tower stands over the grounds of Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, Calif., in an undated photo. Authorities are investigating the fatal assault of inmate Rodrigo Gomez inside a ...