Gangs an Unlikely Source of Order at Pelican Bay Pelican Bay is California’s maximum-security prison on the coast near the Oregon border—recently famous for hunger strikes and allegations of torture.

Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times via Getty;Tiffany Conover/ Pelican Bay State Prison Mark Taylor was eight years into his life sentence for a gang-related murder when, one afternoon in 2005, he says ...

The isolation units at California's Pelican Bay prison hold more than 1,200 inmates. They live in small, windowless cells, often for years, with... At Pelican Bay Prison, a Life in Solitary At Pelican ...

Mark Taylor says that his work at Pelican Bay in California is his way of “making amends” The first-of-its kind bachelor program at one of the nation's most notorious prisons is being offered — to ...