TIMELINE: Crime Date(s): Ongoing activities discovered in the late 1990s Sentencing Date: Various, early 2000s Current Status: Ongoing investigations and prosecutions FACILITY: Name: Pelican Bay State Prison State: California Security Level: Supermax Pelican Bay State Prison, nestled within the towering redwoods of Northern California, has long held a notorious reputation. It is a place where […]
TIMELINE: Crime Date(s): Ongoing activities, with key events in the 1990s Sentencing Date: Various, spanning multiple years Current Status: Ongoing monitoring and prosecutions FACILITY: Name: Pelican Bay State Prison State: California Security Level: Supermax Nestled in the dense, misty redwoods of California’s northwestern coast lies Pelican Bay State Prison, a fortress of concrete and steel […]
In the annals of American prison history, few events cast a shadow as dark as the New Mexico Prison Riot of 1980.
On the night of June 11, 1962, three inmates at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary executed an escape plan so audacious and so meticulously crafted that it continues to baffle authorities and captivate the public more than six decades later.
Pelican Bay State Prison, situated on the remote, rugged northern coast of California, is notorious for housing some of the most dangerous inmates in the United States.
In the quiet, rolling hills of California, nestled within a landscape that belies its grim purpose, stands the United States Penitentiary in Lompoc.
In the dark corridors of the U.S. prison system, the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) etched its name as a powerful and feared entity.
In the early hours of September 9, 1971, tensions that had been simmering beneath the surface of Attica Correctional Facility in New York erupted into one of the most significant prison uprisings in American history.
In recent years, the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, has come under intense scrutiny due to alarming allegations of staff misconduct and abuse.
Nestled amidst the dense redwoods of Northern California, Pelican Bay State Prison stands as a fortress of containment for some of the United States’ most dangerous offenders. Among them, the Aryan Brotherhood, a notorious white supremacist gang, has long been a focal point of criminal enterprise and violent control within prison walls.