when california opened its first "adjustment center", the goal was to return prisoners to the mainline prison population and ultimately to a society through an enrichment program of psychological and social services. however, the plan was never executed. in 1983, george deukmejian was elected as the california governor and during his time, he formed what was then the state's newest prison – a massive, windowless “security housing unit” (shu). shu was intended to segregate over a thousand prisoners from the rest of the prison system through isolation. deukmejian boasted that the pelican bay state prison was a "state-of-the-art prison that will serve as a model for the rest of the nation...".