MORE ON: Pelican Bay

Corrections officials are taking security precautions and gearing up medical staff in response to growing indications that inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison will resume a hunger strike that was suspended July 20. Strike leaders are calling on state inmates to begin refusing state-issued food... + read more

Corrections officials are studying changes in the classification system used to determine which inmates are locked in the state’s controversial Security Housing Units.  The move could mean more inmates are assigned to the windowless, isolated units but for shorter time periods... + read more

Late last year then-Attorney General Jerry Brown scolded the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for the surge in smuggled cell phones getting into the hands of violent inmates. “For a $9 billion expenditure, that’s a failure we can’t tolerate,” Brown... + read more