MADRID V. GOMEZ
By: Anthony Camacho
History of Pelican Bay State Prison
- 1989 prison opened
- Located in California
- Classified as supermax
- Is still open til this day
- 1,056 cells
Inmates
- Guards would shoot inmates and get away with it.
- Vaughn Dortch- 3rd degree burns
- 1hr until token to hospital
- Would burn inmates
- Lcked up mentally ill inmates and not let them see any doctor
Work cited
Courts Ruling
- U.S. District Court
- Judge Thelton Henderson
- 1955
- Ruled that Pelican Bay inmates were being subjected to excessive punishment