It didn't just put you in the SHU, it made it harder for you to get parole. And this is what was kind of evil about Pelican Bay. Once you got placed in the SHU, you couldn't get out. In 2012 ...

Pelican Bay, opened in 1989 in Crescent City ... or what the state calls the special housing unit (the SHU), became immediately notorious for cruelty and violence. As the crack epidemic and ...