View from Treblinka Dungeon Pelican Bay View from Treblinka Dungeon Pelican Bay January 19, 2021 Being imprisoned means you are nameless, you are silenced, you are disregarded and stripped of all your human and civil rights. Medical neglect is a pervasive dehumanizing tactic used by guards and the system, and women face added challenges particular to them. – Art: Terra DeHart. by Lofofora Contreras I arrived at Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit (SHU) in July ‘91. This SHU opened in 1989 and is now a well-known Control Unit, sometimes called by the prisoners “Dungeon Pelican Bay.” I informally call it “Treblinka.” [Treblinka was a Nazi extermination camp in Poland in World War II.]