“When you first get out you’re happy to be free, you enjoy inhaling air that’s not in a concrete bunker,” said a man who had spent 18 years in solitary confinement in the infamous Security Housing ...

The Pelican Bay State Prison, which opened in 1989, served as a limit case for the practice of solitary confinement. As the documentary outlines, the building of that “state-of-the-art ...

Decades later, prisoners at Pelican Bay, including Morris, started a dialogue through coded messages and other covert communication. They decided to protest long-term solitary confinement by ...