Pelican Bay’s SHU (Special Housing Unit) is immortalized in Denzel Washington’s award-winning performance as a crooked cop named Alonzo in the 2001 film Training Day. Just after the film’s climax, as ...

In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would become a months-long hunger strike. The collective action was designed to get ...

Three incarcerated men who feature prominently in the Oscar-nominated documentary The Alabama Solution have been moved into solitary confinement without explanation, according to filmmakers Andrew ...

In the summer of 2013, thousands of incarcerated people in California went on a hunger strike to protest indefinite solitary confinement in Pelican Bay State Prison. Now, the use of solitary ...

Tonight, Oct 23 is the Oakland premiere of the The Strike documentary about the Pelican Bay hunger strikes against solitary confinement, a historic coordinated effort and the largest hunger strike in ...

Transfer of subjects of acclaimed film about inhumane prison conditions described as ‘straight-up retaliation’ The Alabama prison system has moved three well-known incarcerated activists who supported ...

The documentary reveals 50 beds at the hospital have remained unused for more than three years after the hospital opened.

Three incarcerated men who feature prominently in the Oscar-nominated documentary The Alabama Solution have been moved into solitary confinement without explanation, according to filmmakers Andrew ...