The Pelican Bay Information Project

The Pelican Bay Information Project is an independent citizens group that was formed during 1991 in response to prisoners' complaints about Pelican Bay State Prison. The group is made up of family members and visitors of prisoners, ex-prisoners, human rights advocates, and lawyers. We have sponsored two investigative visits to Crescent City and Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP), which included more than 100 in-depth interviews with prisoners and visitors. Those site visits, our continuing communications with Pelican Bay prisoners, and our long collective experience with the California Department of Corrections provide the basis of for our knowledge about the harsh realities of life at PBSP and its torturous Security Housing Unit (SHU).

The PBIP works to monitor the situation at Pelican Bay and to educate the community about conditions there. Our four goals are:

1. An end to the human rights abuses in the Pelican Bay SHU
2. An end to the use of long-term solitary confinement in California prisons
3. Rehabilitation of prisoners held in the SHU as survivors of torture
4. The closing of the Pelican Bay SHU.

Pelican Bay Information Project
2489 Mission St. #28
San Francisco CA 94110
Tel: 415-821-6545

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