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Seventeen seconds.
That’s all it took for silence inside Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit to turn into near-fatal violence.

Pelican Bay State Prison is known as one of the most extreme prisons in America — and its SHU (Security Housing Unit) is a prison inside a prison. Built for total isolation, this concrete yard has no blind spots, no crowds, and no chaos. Yet violence still finds a way.

In this documentary, we reconstruct a real inmate-on-inmate stabbing that unfolded inside the SHU exercise yard. No riots. No shouting. Just calculated movement, hardened men, and a system where violence is often planned long before it ever happens.

This is not a story about impulse.
It’s a story about structure.

You’ll see how prison politics operate in silence, how power is enforced without words, and how a single yard release can carry consequences that follow inmates for the rest of their lives. From the buildup of tension, to the moment of attack, to the lockdown that follows — this is Pelican Bay as it truly exists.

Nothing here is fictional.
Nothing is exaggerated.

Just concrete, razor wire, and decisions that can’t be undone.

⏱️ CHAPTERS

00:00 – Inside Pelican Bay’s SHU
06:12 – Power, silence, and prison hierarchy
14:48 – The stabbing: second-by-second
22:10 – Lockdown, punishment, and aftermath
27:30 – What violence really changes inside prison

⚠️ DISCLAIMER

This documentary is for educational and journalistic purposes only. It examines real prison conditions and real incidents without glorification or sensationalism.

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