Makes me think of Pelican Bay, where so many of the victims of the Golden State Killer want to send DeAngelo vs. San Quentin. And yes, this is less than 10% of article for copyright below MOO
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6] PELICAN BAY STATE PRISON (CRESCENT CITY, CALIFORNIA)
Number of prisoners: 3,500 (1,500 in solitary)
Who'
s in charge: Greg Lewis, warden; Jeffrey Beard, secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
The basics: California leads the nation both in its overall prison population and in the number of prisoners in solitary confinement — about 11,000 men and women on any given day. At Pelican Bay, the state's first and most notorious supermax, the 1,500 occupants of the Security Housing Unit (SHU) and Administrative Housing Unit spend 22.5 hours a day alone in
windowless cells measuring about 7 x 11 feet. The remaining 90 minutes are spent, also alone, in bare concrete exercise pens. With no phone calls allowed, and only the rare noncontact visit, these prisoners, like those at
ADX and Texas' Allan
Polunsky Unit, can only access the world outside their cells via their ”feeding slots.“ And their only interactions with fellow prisoners consists of shouting through steel mesh — until the guards order them to shut up.
More than 500 Pelican Bay prisoners have lived in the SHU in excess of a decade, nearly 80 have been there for more than two decades, and one prisoner recently marked his 40th year in solitary. Two-thirds of these prisoners are serving indeterminate stints in the hole — not because of any misbehavior, but because corrections staff have labeled them gang members or ”associates.“
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