Pelican Bay State Prison News

Editor's note: This letter from a friend of Michael Zaharibu Dorrough, a frequent contributor to the Bay View who is housed in the infamous Corcoran SHU, shows the positive influence he has had on the friend, who is now trying to visit him.

A San Francisco appeals court has ruled that a werewolf erotica novel must be returned to Andres Martinez, an inmate of Pelican Bay State Prison, after prison guards took it away from him on the grounds that it was pornography.

The effect of solitary confinement on mental health can be devastating - what techniques can kidnap victims, hostages and prisoners use to get through the ordeal? For many months, Tabir was kept in solitary confinement in a cell in North Africa, imprisoned for his political views.

Apparently, it's not OK for prisons to disallow the reading of werewolf erotic fiction, according to this story by Melville House .

Less than a month before statewide hunger strikes are set to resume, the California Department of Corrections has instituted a new policy at Pelican Bay State Prison which has resulted in chronic sleep deprivation for prisoners in solitary confinement.

Lewis has retired, but he's still coming to work at the prison A year after reaching the apex of his career at Pelican Bay State Prison by being officially appointed as warden, Greg Lewis is on his way toward full-time freedom.

A room the size of a bathroom. No windows, no natural light, constant illumination.

When a maximum-security state prisoner ordered a paperback novel that included one sexual encounter per chapter, some of them between humans and werewolves, a horrified warden blacklisted the book as obscene and tending to incite violence.

The Pelican Bay Human Rights Movement First Amendment Campaign stands in solidarity with the Stop the Torture Campaign, as our goals and objectives are mutual.

Bringing a scholarly take to trashy literature, the First District Court of Appeal ruled Friday that state prison officials can't stop an inmate from reading an erotic romance novel built around human-werewolf relationships.

It did not transfer inmates from prisons to jails. The role of AB 109 in reducing the inmate population at Pelican Bay State Prison was misstated in a May 21 article.

The "homeless" population is not monolithic. Those who follow these issues already know that.

Visualize life without windows. Picture a room without doors. Imagine living more than 23 hours of every day in an eight-by-four-foot concrete box void of human contact, communication, or comfort.

The San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper, March 2013, Vol. 38, Issue 3, was censored by staff at Pelican Bay due to an article titled "Prisoners' peaceful protest to resume July 8 if demands are not met" on Page 3 in the "Behind Enemy Lines" section.

Pelican Bay State Prison recently hosted the "New Challenges, New Solutions" crime victims' advocates luncheon.

Pelican Bay State Prison's Lt. Christopher Acosta has been named public information officer of the year by the California State Information Officers Council.

Residents packed into what you might call Greater Crescent City The 2013 population of Crescent City is 7,243, according to a California Department of Finance's estimate, but it's not a terribly useful number.