Together with the other inmates at California’s Ironwood State Prison, he’d been ordered back to his cell during a lockdown. He calls his work at Pelican Bay a way of “making amends” for the pain he caused so many people. Pelican Bay inmates during a recent college class behind bars. Tiffany Conover/Pelican Bay State Prison“I want to see people come home healthy and whole and not hurt people. It’s opening up a new world that, according to the Pelican Bay warden, is “spreading like a virus” throughout the prison.