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• US CA: San Quentin Guard Arrested On Drug Charges.
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• SAN QUENTIN GUARD ARRESTED ON DRUG CHARGES .
• Regional -- A veteran San Quentin State Prison guard who holds a leadership position in the prison system's powerful union was in jail yesterday after corrections officials arrested him in Bay Point during the weekend. ...

• San Quentin is famous as a Level 4 prison, but the security measures necessary in Level 4 combined with the overpopulation were deemed cruel and unusual punishment by a district judge a few years ago. ...
• We carried our drivers' license, a water bottle, and wore our cleats and uniforms into the prison. ...
• San Quentin is very segregated. ...
• For the next 45 minutes, we weren’t in the San Quentin yard, and they weren’t either – we were just playing the game we’d all learned back home, growing up. ...

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• San Quentin: Prison in Paradise .
• In the 19th century, when the land of California offered a new paradise, the lost ways of its scoundrels and villains would find only torment in the prison near the Golden Gate.
• San Quentin, one of the most famous and notorious prisons in the world. ...
• Known as the Big House, The Joint and Q, San Quentin has also been touched by measured moments of sacrifice and courage and passed into legend. ...
• The real San Quentin is the oldest prison in California. ...
• Elizabeth Duncan was the last woman to be executed at San Quentin in the 20th century. ...
• Some of the wardens of San Quentin were benign. ...
• Clinton Duffy offered redemption in the darkness of the prison's soul. ...
• Though its present day rhythms can appear mundane, even routine, San Quentin is never far from its savage past where rebellion, Death Row and the gas chamber live as common allies in this land of exile. ...
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• Correctional officer Phillip Chow, above, escorts a condemned inmate into the original death row entrance at San Quentin on Friday. ...
• San Quentin facility's future not settled yet.
• SAN QUENTIN -- From a sun-baked rooftop surrounded by postcard views of San Francisco Bay, Lt. ...
• Death row at San Quentin, the state's oldest penitentiary, was originally designed to hold 68 murderers bound for the execution chamber.
• Today, spread across three aging buildings on the prison's 435-acre grounds, it has 600 -- most under conditions so stark and dangerous that Gov. Gray Davis and the state Senate are proposing a $220 million replacement, despite California's $38. ...
• The issue, however, is far from resolved, with a budget subcommittee in the Assembly endorsing what some say is a much cheaper solution -- moving death row to New Folsom Prison in suburban Sacramento. ...
• Prison advocacy groups say the move makes no sense, because it would disrupt Folsom's strong programs for inmates with serious mental health problems. The Department of Corrections and the powerful guards union are against it, and Senate President Pro Tem John Burton, D-San Francisco, originally a foe of the San Quentin project, now says it's the best solution.
• With about three new condemned inmates arriving each month and a protracted appellate process that can take up to 20 years from conviction to execution, prison officials say it's far past time for the problem to be fixed.
• By comparison, when death row was opened in 1934, it took about a year from conviction to execution, prison officials said.
• The so-called East Block, a dimly lit, five-tier prison within the prison, holds 43 condemned inmates. ...
• The old prison "Adjustment Center," where the most incorrigible and violent inmates are held, has 97 condemned prisoners. ...
• "At this prison there is no gun port. ...
• The more guards walk among the inmates, even if they're in their cells, the greater the risk for assaults, prison officials said.
• "It's a safety issue first and foremost for the employees who work there, and it has to be upgraded," said state Sen. ... Her budget subcommittee has been critical of other Department of Corrections spending decisions recently but supports a new death row at San Quentin.

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• Spencer Michels reports on a drama at California's San Quentin prison.
• SPENCER MICHELS: A group of invited guests arrived at California's San Quentin prison recently to attend a preview by inmates of a dramatic work in progress, "John Brown's Body," an epic poem about slavery, freedom and the Civil War. Mounting a play dealing with race was a risk for the prison, and attending it was a risk for the playgoers. ...
• SPOKESMAN: In the unlikely event that you are taken hostage, the state of California would not negotiate your release for an inmate's release. ...
• San Quentin, built on the shore of San Francisco Bay in 1852, is California's oldest and most renowned prison. ... Unlike the dozens of newly constructed, sterile state prisons built for efficient control of inmates, San Quentin still has huge, multi-tiered, noisy cell blocks difficult for guards to monitor. ... Lieutenant Vernell Crittendon is prison spokesman. ...
• VERNEL CRITTENDON, San Quentin Prison: There is this unwritten code within the prison saying you would associate generally with your own ethnicity. ...
• SPENCER MICHELS: When filmmaker and aspiring play director Joe de Francesco asked prison authorities to allow a mixed cast of inmates, most serving life sentences for murder, to perform a play with racial content, there was some reluctance, according to Crittendon. ...
• VERNEL CRITTENDON: Just bringing up the whole racial issue inside of a prison setting raised some concern among correctional staff here at the facility. ...
• Even though the poem deals with events of 140 years ago, he understood why prison officials were suspicious. ...
• JOE DE FRANCESCO: San Quentin is a place where a white man and a black man do not share a cell. ...
• SPENCER MICHELS: Director de Francesco realized early on that prison authorities would question him about such language. ...
• SPENCER MICHELS: Lamb says being in the play is different from anything he's experienced in the prison system. ...
• Since prison authorities wouldn't allow touching between a male inmate and a woman, the professional actress appears on a TV screen. ...
• SPENCER MICHELS: In a prison where lockdowns are common and inmates are frequently transferred, rehearsing and mounting the previews of what will eventually be a two-hour presentation have been filled with delays and uncertainty. ...

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• Russ Heimrich, corrections spokesperson, has been quoted as stating "more than a third of the prison population, 34. ...
• About two years ago, some of us death row prisoners in the San Quentin Adjustment Center filed and pushed for treatment. ...
• However, now San Quentin had seen the bill for the proper humane treatment of this one prisoner, in a certified hospital, and Sacramento was not pleased.
•  In a twisted replication of Henry Ford's "Industrial Revolution-Assembly Line" cost-cutting tactics, they took six of us at a time in waist chains to San Quentin's Neumiller clinic (an uncertified facility). ...  We were then told to roll onto our side and they put a rolled up San Quentin shower towel under the biopsy wound. ...
• " Well, I guess no less of a distortion can be expected from a CDC spin doctor, but anyone in the system knows that the reality is, due to the true cost now being realized, of this largest manifestation of the Prison Industrial Complex, all measures are being taken to reduce the budget and it is always services to inmates that are cut. ...
• If the pending federal class action filed by the Prison Law Office and two outside firms succeeds and CDC is forced to provide prisoners with decent medical care, the true cost of this prison boom, and  CCPOA (California Correctional Peace Officers Association) political action committee's control of politicians will begin to come into full view. ...  Maybe now this politically motivated massive prison boom error will finally hit the public in the only place that seems to get their attention. ...
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• Ex-offender Pat Corum (second from left) meditates with a group of inmates during the '70s, when TM was introduced to San Quentin.
• Courtesy California State Prison, San Quentin.
• Inmate Glen Bailey finds a peaceful location on San Quentin's grounds to practice the TM technique.
• Transcendental Meditation, known as TM, is a self-development technique in which meditators sit in a comfortable position for two 20-minute periods a day, close their eyes and silently practice a special mental procedure that produces a deeply relaxed, yet fully alert state. ...
• Simultaneously, the body gains a profound state of rest, which releases deep-rooted stress.
• As a result, there was a 35 percent decrease in recidivism five years after the participating inmates were paroled, saving the state more than $1 million. The technique also has been used in privately funded prison programs in Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico and Vermont.
• Farrokh Anklesaria, international director of TM prison programs at MCI, spearheaded a project in Senegal, West Africa, where he and other TM representatives taught the technique to 11,000 inmates in 31 prisons. ... , for local prison officials last spring.
• Before the TM program was introduced in Senegal in January 1987, inmates there returned to prison at a rate of about 90 percent within the first month. ...
• Is TM the solution prison officials have been waiting for? Consider the perspectives of several corrections officials, a former inmate, a TM teacher and an inmate now in prison.
• Bill McMillan, hearing officer for disciplinaries at the California State Prison, San Quentin, the technique benefits not only the individual but the institution as a whole. The TM program was at San Quentin from 1978 until 1988, when funding ran out. ...
• "I have been practicing TM for six years and can honestly say that when the program was here, San Quentin was a better place due to Transcendental Meditation," McMillan says. ...
• 7 grade point average at the California State University at Bakersfield and has been out of prison on parole for about four years.
• Convicted of murder and sentenced to two life terms, Corum served about 25 years in prison. Most of his sentence was carried out at California's Folsom Prison. ... "Had it not been for TM, I would either be dead or still in prison," he says.

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• Prison, protesters ready for first execution in two years.
• By: DAVID KRAVETS - AP Legal Affairs Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- San Quentin State Prison officials are gearing up for California's first execution in two years, putting fresh restrictions on inmates and curbing visitors. The prison, along the shores of San Francisco Bay just north of here, is home to the nation's largest death row of 638 inmates and more than 5,000 other prisoners. Officials said that because of the upcoming execution, inmates are being allowed fewer visitors, their movements on prison grounds restricted and the daily stream of volunteers is coming to a trickle. ...
• Authorities are preparing to inject a lethal dose of drugs into Kevin Cooper, convicted of hacking to death four people, two of them children, in Chino Hills after he escaped from a nearby prison in 1983. ...
• Arnold Schwarzenegger's home in Southern California, urging the state's chief executive to spare Cooper's life. ... Hundreds of demonstrators are planning a candlelight vigil outside the prison gates. ... The San Bernardino County victims were stabbed and hacked repeatedly with a hatchet and buck knife. ... When the murders were committed, Cooper had escaped from prison, where he was serving a four-year sentence for burglary. ... State prosecutors have balked at the allegations, and said it's time for Cooper to die. ...

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• An execution is a proclamation by the State that its judgment is infallible and that is has the power and the right not merely to punish a crime, but to destroy - completely and forever - a human life.
• What is surprising is that the United States remains one of the few developed Democratic societies where the State kills prisoners. ...
• How can people be in favor of human rights, be against torture in all cases, be genuinely shocked to learn about countries where the State attaches wires to some prisoners and applies electricity until those prisoners are in terrible pain, and yet find it both acceptable and desirable in their own country? Where States like Florida put wires on prisoners and then turn on the electricity so high that those prisoners are literally fried to death? Or like California where they drop pellets of gas which strangle prisoners, taking their breaths until the veins under their very skin burst.
• If you would care to correspond with Al Cunningham, on Death Row, his address is: Al Cunningham PO Box E-22600 San Quentin State Prison San Quentin, CA 94974.

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• There are six major prison gangs that are recognized nationally for their participation in organized crime and violence. ...
• Each group is represented in Florida's prison system population; however some are not readily recognizable. ...
• The six major prison gangs currently are: .
• The largest prison gangs in the Florida Department of Corrections are Neta and Aryan Brotherhood. ...
• Origin: an inmate established The Neta in 1970 in Rio Pedras Prison, Puerto Rico. It was formed to stop the violence between inmates housed in the Rio Pedras Prison. ...
• Origin: Originated in 1967 in the San Quentin State Prison, California Department of Corrections. ...
• Unaffiliated splinter groups sometimes use the name of their state along with the name "Aryan Brotherhood" (e. ...
• Members display many white supremacist, neo-nazi characteristics and ideology, but often state their goals as simply "getting high and getting over," or making their stay in the prison as comfortable as possible.
• Aryan Brotherhood groups from other states often accompany the symbols mentioned above with the name of the state .
• Is known to give moral support to black groups in an effort to encourage possible prison disturbances.
• Utilizes black associates to buy and sell drugs to elements of the black prison population.
• Prison activities include introduction of contraband, distribution of drugs, and getting past facility rules and regulations.
• Once released from custody, AB members are actively expected to continue to assist or "score" for the members remaining in prison. ...

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• SAN QUENTIN, Calif. -Hard time calls for hard rock - at least that's the view of Metallica, who performed a free hourlong concert at San Quentin State Prison.
• The heavy metal band, which is based just up the road in Marin County, agreed to perform Thursday for about 800 inmates after spending 18 hours at the prison Wednesday filming the video for the title track to its new album, "St. ...
• Other musicians who've played at San Quentin include Bonnie Raitt and Carlos Santana.

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• He wasn't busted for anything illicit; he was in San Quentin State Prison with his bandmates shooting the video for the title track of the .
• Metallica entered the 150-year-old San Francisco-area prison at 7 a. ...
• San Quentin is colored with musical history. In 1969 Johnny Cash entered the complex to record At San Quentin, in 1991 Chicago blues legend B. ... King recorded Live At San Quentin, and in 1983 Charles Manson recorded an hour's worth of music and improvisation from his cell at the compound.
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• The tour runs through August 10 in San Francisco (see "More Dates Added To Metallica/ Limp Bizkit/ Linkin Park Tour").

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• I am a single man of African, and Indian Nationality, on Death Row at San Quentin State Prison, and I'm trying to open a line of positive communication with sincere and decent older, full-figure, and petite, women, and race not important.

• An Interfaith Conference on Contemplative Prison Service.
• • Find ways to better serve prisoners, their families, victims of crime, and prison staff so that incarceration can be a time for true transformation.
• • Nate and Jenny Bacon helped found Communidad San Dimas in 1992 at Saint Peter’s Parish, San Francisco, where Nate serves as deacon. ...
• • Sheikh Salman Baruti, a licensed clinical social worker, uses Sufi meditation and stories with clients at the Alameda County Child Guidance Clinic and San Quentin State Prison. ...
• • Sister Catherine Marie Bazar is a Mission San Jose Dominican sister who taught for over twenty-five years in inner city schools in the Los Angeles area including Watts. ...
• In 1994, a prisoner’s letter to Gangaji prompted her first prison visit to Englewood Federal Corrections Institute in Colorado. Since then, the Prison Program has expanded to include prison visits by volunteers, video groups in prisons, a correspondence program, and gifts of books and tapes to prison libraries.
• • Paul Haller, a Zen priest and teacher at the San Francisco Zen center, former Head of Practice, now directs outreach at the Zen Center. ... Paul co-founded the Prison Meditation Network to offer meditation and stress reduction groups throughout the San Francisco Bay area. ...
• • Shayhk Bilal Hyde having studied in McGill University, Toronto, Sudan and Mecca, has led Sufi Dhikr chanting, the rememberance of Allah, at the San Francisco Sufi Center, and San Quentin and Vacaville state prisons. ...
• Joseph of Carondelet, has been involved in Detention Ministry in Washington State and Southern California for the past twenty-seven years. ...
• • Mike Kelley is the coordinator of the prison ministry program for Contemplative Out-reach in California. He has introduced Centering Prayer into many California State prisons for the past six years. He helped start the Contemplative Fellowship among prisoners at Folsom Prison and and has encouraged inmates to teach Centering Prayer systematically to prisoners at Folsom and elsewhere. ...
• • While serving a fourteen year sentence in federal prison, Fleet Maull, M. ... (candidate) founded the Prison Dharma Network and National Prison Hospice Association. ...

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• “Making monsters—willfully by state policy or media agency, or accidentally by slapdash language—is bound to fail, however sophisticated the rubric… because monsters invariably suggest multiplicity of meaning” (Ingebretsen 29). ...
• Director of the College Program at San Quentin State Prison, USA.
• In 1999, four years into graduate school, I began teaching as a volunteer instructor in the Patten College program at San Quentin State Prison. ...
• Spending time in a prison after having spent most of your adult life in "the academy" is like moving to mars after having read a book about astrology. ... Yet the state of imprisonment is the ultimate figurative referent; as a literary theorist, standing in a prison is like standing at the metaphoric epicenter of the universe. ...
• In fact, over time, I have been almost ashamed to realize that the very act of entering and exiting a prison several times a week has an almost ritualistic, self reassuring aspect for me: every time I leave, I demonstrate that I am not trapped, that I am free to come and go as I please. ... At San Quentin, education is supplied to people "trapped" inside as if it were oxygen. ...
• But another link between the work at San Quentin and the subject matter of this dissertation is even more deeply related to the spirit of this project as a whole, and this concerns the social construction of "the Criminal. " A great deal of what I have learned about this topic over the past several years has come from listening to both my own and other people's thoughts about people in prison.
• From the time I first began to teach at San Quentin, I was acutely aware that I was on very foreign ground. ...
• And yet from the beginning, when I met intelligent, straightforward, respectful, funny people at San Quentin, I often had a feeling of disorientation and surprise. ...
• In fact, almost everyday, I have conversations with others about my work in which they assume that the students in the program at San Quentin must be physically threatening, or that cheating must be especially widespread, or that female teachers must get "hit on" all the time. ...

• - Hundreds at San Quentin cheer delay of execution.
• - State calls Cooper appeals meritless .
• STAFF WRITERSAN QUENTIN - As many as 2,000 protesters are expected to rally outside the gates of San Quentin State Prison tonight in opposition to the scheduled midnight execution of Kevin Cooper.
• Protesters plan to march to the prison walls from a nearby park at 8 p. ...
• Cooper is convicted of hacking to death the Ryens and Hughes with a hatchet and knife inside the Ryen home on English Road two days after he escaped from the nearby California Institution for Men State Prison.
• As the protesters march and chant outside San Quentin tonight, the Department of Corrections will adhere to a tight regimen of pre-execution procedures to ready Cooper for the death chamber, said prison spokesman Vernell Crittendon.
• There, a three-member prison staff will keep a constant watch over him.
• He can also accept visits from a state chaplain and the prison's warden between 7 and 10 p. ...
• The door to the execution chamber will be shut, and the prison's warden, Jeanne Woodford, will prepare to issue the execution order.
• One is kept open for calls from the governor, one for the State Supreme Court and Attorney General's Office, and a third connected to the warden's office.

•   print story |  email storylast updated: 5/29/2003 Metallica To Give Free Concert At Prison.
• May 1 (BCN) — Heavy metal band Metallica will release its newest song tonight at a free concert for prisoners at San Quentin State Prison. ...
• "The band will be sending a positive message to inmates about sobriety," said Vernell Crittendon, prison public information officer. ...
• This is the first time the band, which has been around since 1981, has played in the prison, according to Crittendon. ...
• Metallica also donated $10,000 to the San Quentin Giants baseball team, Crittendon said. ...

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