Travel nurse Kevin Levu has more than doubled his income by working in prisons: "This is the first time I've ever made over ...

Pelican Bay State Prison houses inmates ranging from minimum security all the way to maximum. There are about 1,800 inmates ...

The punishment was severe: He was sent to a special supermax unit at the state’s highest-security prison, Pelican Bay. The facility was designed to isolate men deemed the “worst of the worst.” ...

Thomas is one of two women who authorities said were killed last year during conjugal visits with their husbands at the prison in Amador County. The California Department of Corrections and ...

The day before state authorities announced plans to restrict inmate movement and revoke visits and other privileges, three inmates were killed in attacks at three different prisons.

The Strike, a documentary by JoeBill Munoz and Lucas Guilkey, provides the viewer with an enthralling and engrossing look at ...

In 1995 a federal court examining the Security Housing Unit (SHU) of the Pelican Bay State Prison—a California supermax —found that “many, if not most, inmates in the SHU experience some ...