60 Minutes special contributor Oprah Winfrey reported from Pelican Bay, the notorious state penitentiary, this week. The prison is known for its security housing unit, or SHU, which was designed to ...

On a recent media tour, journalists got glimpse of that life on a visit to the Security Housing Units at Pelican Bay State Prison. Nearly 1,200 men are housed in the complex of low, concrete buildings ...

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Want more? Subscribe to our newsletter to get our investigations delivered straight to your inbox. “I haven’t seen the moon since 1998.” That’s inmate Jeremy Beasley, talking to me while sitting – ...

Oprah Winfrey visits California's Pelican Bay State Prison and the infamous Security Housing Unit that has been controversial for years and once earned the "supermax" prison the nickname "Skeleton Bay ...

Mark Taylor says that his work at Pelican Bay in California is his way of “making amends” Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times via Getty;Tiffany Conover/ Pelican Bay State Prison The first-of-its kind ...