Rene B. Lopez was found dead last week at Pelican Bay State Prison. Surveillance footage revealed five inmates worked together to kill him, authorities say.

October 5, 2026 – CRESCENT CITY, CA – California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials are investigating the ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials are investigating the death of a 31-year-old man at Pelican Bay State Prison as a homicide af ...

The first-of-its kind bachelor program at one of the nation's most notorious prisons is being offered — to those inmates who qualify — through Cal Poly Humboldt. Pelican Bay State Prison Warden ...

The Los Angeles County man had been sentenced on charges of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, authorities say.

Which Way, L.A.? 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 ...

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 ...

Dell’Arte International will premiere “We’re All We Need: Theatre at Pelican Bay,” a new documentary created in partnership with Malcolm DeSoto showcasing students of Dell’Arte’s long-running Prison ...

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 ...

Five California prisoners worked in concert to kill a fellow inmate last week at Pelican Bay State Prison, authorities said. Guards at the high-security prison near the Oregon border found Rene B.