$32.00 donated in past month The Living Hell in Pelican Bay
Prison Crescent City is far north in California, about 20 miles
from the Oregon border. In 1989, In 1989, 275 acres of dense
forest near there were chopped down to build the $277.5 million
Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP). Today, more than 3,000 people
are locked up in this prison, infamous for its inhumane
conditions and extreme abuse. More than 1,000 prisoners at PBSP
are locked up in an X-shaped cluster of white buildings set
apart by electrified fences and barren ground. This is the
Security Housing Unit (SHU), a supermax control facility where
prisoners are subjected to sensory deprivation, isolation and
brutality. Dehumanizing Sensory Deprivation and Isolation
Solitary confinement is a hidden world within the larger hidden
world of the prison system, and prisoners in solitary are an
invisible and dehumanized minority within the larger population
of prison inmates in general—who also remain remarkably
invisible and dehumanized... —Solitary Watch,