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• San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, Ca. ...
• Aerial view of San Quentin Prison: 1) hospital; 2) South Block; 3) West Block; 4) North Block; 5) East Block; 6 upper yard; 7) south mess hall; 8) north mess hall; 9) staff cafeteria, bachelor officer's quarters; 10) library; 11) Adjustment Center; 12) maintenance shops, old gym; 13) education building; 14) education building; 15) count gate (main entry through prison walls); 16) custody staff offices; 17) gym; 18) laundry; 19) prisoner activities offices; 20) chapel buildings; 21) lower yard (north end); 22) furniture factory; 23) industries maintenance shops; 24) cotton textile mill; 25) staff snack bar; 26) armory, gun tower; 27) administration building; 28) fire house; 29) staff recreation building; 30) staff gas station; 31) staff parking; 32) visitor parking; 33) main gate; 34) private homes (outside prison grounds); 35) state-owned homes for administrators; 36) state-owned homes for administrators; 37) warden's home; 38) warehouse area; 39) ranch area. ...
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• San Quentin.
• Johnny Cash sang this about San Quentin prison: "I hate every stone of you. ...
• San Quentin Prison is the oldest prison in California. Located north of San Francisco, in the heart of one of the state's most affluent areas, San Quentin Prison is California's only death row with a Gas Chamber. ... The prison opened in 1852 and was built mostly by convicts, who slept on a ship at night until the job was completed.
• San Quentin has a bloody reputation, a culture where violence and boredom make up life day-by-day, where gang culture, rape and silence runs deep. ... Cell blocks in San Quentin have names or perhaps warning signs: "Little Viet Nam", "Death Alley", "Okay Corral". The prison itself has an appropriate nickname given to it by inmates: "The Arena".
• The chamber at San Quentin is kept in the basement and is simply a large green box. ...
• San Quentin's gas chamber works like so: The subject is sealed in an air-tight, pressurized chamber. ... The remaining gasses are evacuated and the state is left with a corpse that must be scrubbed with bleach before it can be handled. ...
• Lethal gas is one of many efforts on the part of the state to kill people in a more humane fashion. Since 1960, California has executed 192 men and 4 women by gassing at San. Quentin prison. ...
• These numbers, dated Winter 2003 from California's Department of Corrections web page, show that the prison was only designed to hold 3,317 prisoners. The annual operating budget of San Quentin State Prison? $120,000,000. ...

• California State Prison at San Quentin.
• Chicano prisoners; the key to San Quentin, by R. ...

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• Issue: San Quentin .
• Sierra Club takes on San Quentin .
• Group says prison's plan to fill in 2. ...
• 2 acres of San Francisco Bay to shore up a state prison that may face closure makes no sense and threatens to harm sensitive bay habitat, according to the Marin chapter of the Sierra Club. ... 2 acres of shoreline next to San Quentin State Prison that officials there say is needed to halt erosion that has rendered a guard tower useless. ... 2 acres of fill to the ecologically sensitive waters of San Francisco Bay," said Herb Kutchins, a member of the local Sierra Club's executive committee. ...
•   The proposed project comes at time when state legislators and even the head of the state Department of Corrections have indicated that the prison may be a good candidate for closure. State legislators have asked for a study evaluating the ramifications of closing San Quentin, the oldest state prison in California. ...
• Prison officials, however, said there are no immediate plans to close San Quentin, and state Department of Corrections Margot Bach expressed disappointment that the Sierra Club did not voice its objections during earlier public meetings. ...
• "  The Sierra Club asked in its letter for the prison to conduct more studies of the potential environmental impacts on the area, which the group said is located near habitat for several endangered or threatened species, including the California brown pelican, steelhead trout, the salt marsh harvest mouse and the California clapper rail. ...
• Shepard said the Army Corps will deliver the letter to prison officials so they can address the Sierra Club's concerns. ...

• San Quentin Prison Museum.
• San Quentin Museum Association.
• PO Box 205, San Quentin CA 94964.
• California established a State Prison system in 1851 in response to increased criminal activity brought on by the sudden influx of men seeking their fortune in the gold fields. Originally a private enterprise, a temporary prison was set up on the Waban, a 268 ton bark (ship). ... San Quentin in 1852.
• You pass San Quentin Prison overlooking San Francisco Bay if you take the Larkspur Ferry from San Francisco to Marin County. ...
• Pass within the perimeter of San Quentin, one of the most famous, active prisons in the world without being an inmate or visitor by going to the prison museum just inside the main gate.
• A grant and the expert work of Shirley Schaufel, a museum design consultant who actually spent the summers of her childhood staying with relatives in the house next door to the building which is now the museum, have fulfilled the museum's intent of guiding the visitor in exploring the relationship of the prison and the history of California.
• In 1932 prison employees, at the time earning $50 a month and working six days a week, presented Warden Holohan with a solid gold badge with 7 diamonds. ...
• Many visitors are unaware that San Quentin housed women prisoners until 1934. Prison labor was used in building roads and they supported the war effort by building metal submarine nets and weaving cargo netting. There is a model of a prison cell, a miniature of the gas chamber, and artifacts from the original gallows and The Dungeon, known as The Hole.
• The prison cemetery was used until 1952. Unaccessible now, it rests on the hill above the prison marked by a grove of Eucalyptus trees. ...
• The museum is on prison property through the main gate on the right. ...

• In 1971 Seamus Kilty, a member of the management staff at Catholic Social Services of Marin, visited San Quentin State Prison under the auspices of the Marin County Grand Jury. When he observed families, friends and children of inmates standing in inclement weather outside the prison gates, he was at once dismayed and challenged. He met with the Director of Catholic Social Services, Margaret Eilerman, to gain her support in providing a respite site for prison visitors to San Quentin. ... Through hard work and determination, The House at San Quentin opened its doors in 1972 to welcome all who passed through. ...
• Fenlon's immediate successors, Barbara Bloom and Henry Cleveland, decided that in order to maintain a funding base and be able to continue this important assistance to prison visitors, Centerforce's mission and focus must become mandated by law. ... This bill states that the California Department of Corrections must contract with a private nonprofit agency to provide prison visitor services. ...
• While Centerforce continues to carry on the original mission of providing direct services to the visiting community, it is expanding its programming, encompassing a broader perspective and developing new projects such as the Parent Project at the Marin County Jail and the Literacy Project at San Quentin State Prison. One of its major accomplishments in 1997 was the establishment of the Health Programs Division which provides education regarding HIV, Hepatitis, and other health issues in prison and in the community. ...
• Today Centerforce provides services to inmates and their families at various county jails, State prisons, and Federal correctional facilities throughout Northern and Central California. ... Centerforce employs over 20 employees at a Northern California Office, Central California Office and The House at San Quentin State Prison. ...
• Centerforce projects enhance the lives of prison visitors and prisoners and are a positive link for these families and for those who are incarcerated. ...

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• Woodard to head the California Prison System? God Help Us!.
• Woodford, who worked her way up from prison guard to warden at San Quentin State Prison during a 27-year career, was tapped Thursday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to head the state's troubled prison system.
• Described as quiet but tough -- called a "velvet hammer'' by one prison official -- Woodford inherits a department in disarray.
• Last month several whistle-blowers delivered dramatic testimony at a state Senate hearing accusing department officials of condoning the cover-up of improper behavior behind prison walls. ... Jackie Speier, D- Hillsborough, one of two lawmakers leading the charge to reform the state's correctional system.
• Speier, former prison officials and the state's powerful prison guards union all applauded the appointment of Woodford.
• Housing more than 160,000 inmates, it's the largest state correctional system in the nation.
• Corcoran said she had done a "remarkable'' job at San Quentin, where Woodford has been charged with carrying out four executions since becoming warden in 1999. ...
• A native of rural Sonoma County, Woodford started as a guard at San Quentin in 1978, just two weeks after earning a degree in criminal justice from Sonoma State University.
• She rose to become the first woman to run San Quentin.
• Prison watchdogs had hoped the new director would be an outsider, suggesting the department needed a fresh perspective.
• That seems likely, as Senate President Pro Tem John Burton, D-San Francisco, was pushing for her to get the job.
• Woodford faces several immediate tasks: The department faces legal problems over the mishandling of a nearly decade-old lawsuit alleging inhumane conditions at Pelican Bay State Prison; and Schwarzenegger has called for a $400 million reduction in corrections spending for a department that has for years overspent its budget. ...

• San Quentin Trial for Racial Segregation by APSC Tuesday November 18, 2003 at 05:06 PM .
• Details on illegal practices of racial segregation in San Quentin. ...
• -SAN QUENTIN STATE PRISON ON TRIAL FOR RACIAL SEGREGATION San Quentin Prisoners Challenge Racial Segregation Policy Viet Mike Ngo (E-21895), a prisoner at San Quentin State Prison at time of original filing, has petitioned the Marin County Superior Court for a writ of habeas corpus regarding the prison’s illegal racial segregation of inmates in housing and discipline, a violation of the 14th Amendment of the US and California State Constitutions. Inmate Ngo claims that San Quentin assigns inmates their cellmates based solely upon the race of the prisoner, resulting in a near exclusive segregation of inmates by race. ...
• If the court rules in Ngo’s favor, San Quentin State Prison and the California Department of Corrections (CDC) could be charged and held liable for the violation of prisoners’ civil rights. ...
• State of California) regarding similar charges of formal racial segregation in California’s prison system dating back as far as 1987. ... In Ngo’s case, the former Warden of San Quentin – Daniel Vasquez – supported inmate Ngo’s claims by testifying that San Quentin uses race as the primary factor in housing assignments. ...
• It provides a means for the prison administration to manufacture and manipulate racial conflict and violence between prisoners. ...
• If successful, it could mark a major shift in the racial politics of imprisonment in the US’s largest prison system. ...
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• Outdated San Quentin Prison may be doomed.
• BY DAN REED, San Jose Mercury News.
• The oldest penitentiary in the state, San Quentin is a historical -- if grim -- treasure. ... It houses the state's only death chamber; inmates have been executed here since before President Lincoln was assassinated.
• But in a region where real estate is like gold, San Quentin's most lasting legacy may be its location. The land once known as the Bay of Skulls is a shoreline spread just 20 miles north of San Francisco with sweeping views of bay waters and jagged bluffs. ...
• And, with state officials saying the prison is outdated, unsafe and falling apart, with a new political climate in prison politics and with developers almost giddy over the prospect of building over the land, a move to raze the penitentiary may succeed where others failed.
• The just-approved state budget carries $250,000 to study plans to tear it down and replace it with less notorious residents -- suburbanites.
• A report by the Department of General Services, released last month, laid out three options for San Quentin's 432 acres, which are bordered by San Rafael, Larkspur and Corte Madera. They range from a plan for 500 units of housing that retains some prison buildings as historic artifacts to one with up to 3,500 homes, including ``a moderate amount of historic reuse. ...
• ``They only can see the sky,'' said prison spokesman Lt. ...
• Advocates for the inmates say it's unfair to send them to some remote new prison, away from the support provided by their families, friends and lawyers.
• Ronald Reagan promised in his State of the State address to `take the first step toward closing San Quentin. ...
• Gray Davis' secretary over the Department of Corrections is former state Sen. Robert Presley, who sat on the Joint Legislative Prisons Committee during the prison-building boom of the 1980s and early 1990s. He wants San Quentin shut down, and his opinion carries weight.

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• San Quentin California.
• San Quentin is famous for the San Quentin State Prison. San Quentin was established in July 1852 at Point Quentin in Marin County as an answer to the abundant lawlessness in California at that time. San Quentin housed both male and female inmates until 1933 when the women's prison at Tehachapi was built.
• San Quentin is located just north of San Francisco between San Rafael and Sausalito along US Highway 101 near San Pablo Bay and the Pacific Ocean.
• San Quentin is part of the San Francisco, California metro area.
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• Folsom State Prison.
• Old gate, Folsom State Prison, California .
• Folsom State Prison (FSP), also known as Folsom State Prison, Represa is one of 33 prison facilities operated by the California Department of Corrections (CDC). FSP is located near the City of Folsom in Sacramento County, 20 miles from the state capital of Sacramento, California. ...
• As of the 2000 United States Census, FSP had an inmate population of 7,246 housed at level 1 and 2 security, the two lowest levels of security for prison facilities operated by the CDC. ...
• FSP is California's second oldest prison facility, long known for its harsh conditions in the decades following the California Gold Rush. Prison construction began in 1878 on the site of the Stony Bar mining camp along the American River. ...
• After that time, executions were carried out in California were performed in the gas chamber at California's San Quentin Prison. ...
• Folsom Prison was made famous by country music singer Johnny Cash, who performed a live concert at Folsom Prison in 1968 and narrated a fictional account of an outlaw's incarceration in his song Folsom Prison Blues. Contrary to popular belief, Cash was never incarcerated in this or any state or federal prison, but he did spend an occasional night in jail. ...

• LIFE IN PRISON .
• Life in Prison.
• By: Williams, Stanley "Tookie"/ Becnel, Barbara Cottma The author's account of his life in San Quentin State Prison in California where he has lived in a small cell on death row for sixteen years because of a murder conviction. ...

• Protest At San Quentin Prison.
• Protest At San Quentin Prison.
• On April 6, the Oakland chapter of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty held a rally at San Quentin State Prison to build support for a moratorium on executions in California. Around 35 people picketed, chanted, gathered signatures, and passed out anti-death penalty literature in front of the prison gates. ...
• Gail Berryman, whose husband Rodney is on death row, led chants and appealed to family and friends who were visiting the prison to join the protest. ...
• Harry Souza, whose son Matt is on death row, also spoke about the ways in which the prison degrades and humiliates inmates and their families. ...
• Michell Simon, a Campaign member, also spoke out against the backward priorities of the criminal injustice system: "You know that if the state really cared about public safety and personal security they would be spending money on education and health care and not on building prisons. ...

• February 10 2004, San Quentin State Prison, California.
• As protesters march on San Quentin .
• Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals earlier in the day had ruled nine to two to send the case back to a federal judge in San Diego because a significant amount of information had surfaced indicating that San Bernardino police had planted and tampered with evidence in order to get a conviction of Cooper in the 1983 deaths of four people.
• The San Francisco office of the ANSWER Coalition immediately activated its phone fax and email network, flooding the Attorney General's office to demand he not appeal the lower court's decision.
• Despite the stay, opponents of the death penalty continued their mobilizing efforts to march on San Quentin, where Kevin Cooper was in a deathwatch cell 12 feet from the execution chamber. ... Arnold Schwarzenegger denied Cooper even the customary clemency hearing that the state of California was hell bent on following through with the execution, despite the growing evidence of Cooper's innocence.
• In recent weeks the Cooper case has galvanized progressive forces around the state and has also become a focus of national attention as sentiment against the death penalty gains momentum. ...
• As media trucks lined up in front of the west gate to San Quentin, hundreds of pro testers started to march the one and a half miles from the Larkspur Ferry to the main gate near the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, which crosses San Francisco Bay. ...
• When the protesters got close to the gate of San Quentin, they were met by another 100 cheering anti-death penalty protesters who had just heard that the U. ...
• Although buoyed by the victory, acti vists left San Quentin knowing that Kevin Cooper's reprieve, which gives him at least 40 days before the state can issue another death warrant, is a period in which the struggle must not just continue to exist but must grow. ...
• SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The Supreme Court late Monday let stand an appeals court's stay for a man who hacked four people to death in 1983, denying California's request to let the execution proceed as planned.
• The Supreme Court later denied a request by the state of California to reverse the appeals court decision. ...
• The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a stay of execution today for Kevin Cooper just a few hours before he was to be executed in San Quentin. ...
• The stay can be over ruled by the courts at any moment during this time period so we must keep up the pressure by coming out to San Quentin tonight. ...
• The state's Attorney General office is weighing its option to appeal the 9th Circuit Court's stay by petitioning the Supreme Court. ... Send an email message, write a note and fax, and call state Attorney General Bill Lockyer's office and tell him: "I am calling to demand that the Attorney General does not appeal the stay of execution for Kevin Cooper to the Supreme Court. ...

• San Quentin State Prison.
• San Quentin, CA 94974 .
• San Quentin Village, CA 94964 .
• or: contact the San Fernando Valley office of the PUBLIC DEFENDER, Attorney Kenneth Lezin .
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• Was granted a new penalty trial, from the California Supreme court, and was only re-sentenced to death again, due to the Judge Jeffrey Wyatt's ruling that Kenneth's "INNOCENCE EVIDENCE WAS IRRELEVANT " (QUOTE) KEEPING THE NEW TRIAL ATTORNEYS FROM PRESENTING KENNETH'S INNOCENCE EVIDENCE TO THE NEW JURY! PROOF THAT HE ** DID NOT KILL** A POLICE OFFICER IN THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY IN THE EARLY 1980's. ...
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• COM OR THE OFFICE OF SAN FERNANDO VALLEY PUBLIC DEFENSE, OR ATTORNEY ROBERT BRYAN , SAN FRANCISCO, CA. OR THE DEFENDENT KENNETH EARL GAY, #D-15601, SAN QUENTIN STATE PRISON, SAN QUENTIN CA. 94974, OR: CONTACT JAN GAY, PO BOX 404, SAN QUENTIN VILLAGE, CA. ...

• On January 12, 1943, twelve Los Angeles young men convicted of murder were sentenced to jail terms of five years to life in San Quentin State Prison. California's oldest correctional facility was -- and still is -- situated on a beautiful parcel of land on San Francisco Bay, almost 400 miles away from L. ...
• The Sleepy Lagoon boys arrived at a relatively good moment in the prison's history. ... Duffy, the son of a former prison guard, instigated major educational, recreational, and other rehabilitative programs. ...
• Most importantly, Duffy recognized the humanity of San Quentin's inmates and gave them hope for the future. ...
• Warden Duffy's programs made prison life better than it might have been for the boys; Alice McGrath and the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee gave them hope for release from prison. Their letters from San Quentin show the gratitude and warmth they felt.

• SAN QUENTIN "Inside the Walls".
• On Thursday, September 5, 2002, the San Francisco Bay Section had its annual joint dinner meeting with the Redwood Empire Section. ... They really came up with a unique place to tour, "San Quentin Prison".
• Guidelines for entering the prison were very strict for security reasons. Anyone wishing to visit San Quentin would be run through the computers to check for prior felony convictions, wants and warrants. Each person was asked to give his or her name and Social Security number, as well as signing in and out of the prison (which included logging of times). ...
• We all were excited about touring San Quentin. This was the BIG HOUSE, the STATE PENITENTIARY, the NOTOROUS "Q"! Of course we were never left alone among the prisoners and our escort officer was never armed. ...
• People at San Quentin fall into two groups - those who chose to be there and those who, on the whole, would rather not be there. ... As a rule of thumb, to be sentenced to a state prison, an individual has committed a crime that received more than one year's sentence period. Today, with over crowded prisons, and backlogged court calendars, being sentenced to a state prison is not that easy. Over the years, San Quentin has held many type of inmates classified with different security levels (from class 1 being minimum security to class 4 being maximum security, including death row). San Quentin (often referred to as "Q") has housed the most violent and dangerous of California's convicted felons. It is still the only prison designated to house death row inmates (male only). All state executions, including females from other prisons are conducted behind the walls of San Quentin.
• Jobs within San Quentin vary from BLOCK WORKERS, INMATE CLERKS, MAINTENANCE WORKERS, TO TEACHERS AIDS, AND WORKERS IN THE INDUSTRIES PROGRAMS.

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• Governor Davis Reportedly Asks For Money To Expand Death Row At San Quentin.
• (KCBS) - Marin County leaders say Governor Gray Davis wants money to potentially expand the death row facilities at San Quentin State Prison. KCBS Reporter Henry Mulak says a member of Marin County's Planning Department got the news after the governor revealed his proposed state budget. ...
• "The governor had identified monies to potentially expand the death row facility at San Quentin," said Dan Dawson, a member of the Marin County Planning Department. ...
• County Supervisor Steve Kinsey tells the Marin Independent Journal the state wants 220-million dollars to build a new death row. State officials have not been available for comment. ...

• A For-Sale Sign for San Quentin? .
• It’s a question everybody keeps asking: why not sell rickety, 148-year-old San Quentin prison for big bucks – very big bucks? But, like the weather, everybody talks about it but nobody does anything about it.
• "If it were bare land, you could have an eBay auction on the thing and who knows where it would stop?" said Leonard, a Republican from San Bernardino and a former real estate salesman who wrote a bill to shut down San Quentin. ...
• The prison is located on 432 acres of what the Bee called "some of the most expensive real estate in the world. ... with spectacular views of San Francisco Bay, Mt. ...
• Leonard, the paper says, estimates San Quentin's value in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
• Despite Leonard’s enthusiasm, however, nobody is putting a for-sale sign in front of the prison, which dates back to 1852, has housed some of the nation’s most infamous felons and sparked production of dozens of Hollywood prison melodramas.
• 5 million worth of earthquake protection construction underway, California’s Department of Corrections, the Bee suggests, isn’t thinking about closing down the prison anytime in the immediate future. "Officials say talk of bulldozing San Quentin won't even reach the premature stage until the state can relocate death row, possibly to New Folsom Prison in Sacramento County," the paper wrote.
• "If we're going to close San Quentin, we have to get that out of the way first," Youth and Adult Corrections Agency Secretary Robert Presley told the newspaper, adding that closing down the prison, a move he proposed way back in 1982 when he was a state senator, is something worth thinking about – in the future.
• "At some place down the line, it is our goal to try and replace San Quentin with another prison someplace else," Presley told the Bee.
• According to Dan Carson, an expert on prisons who works for California’s Legislative Analyst's Office, the state has first to come up with the money to build a new prison before it can move ahead with shutting down San Quentin. ...
• Since it took five years to get funding approved for the state's 34th prison in Delano – still two years away from groundbreaking – Carson told the Bee he doesn't see a San Quentin closure happening anytime soon. ...

• CHRISTMAS AT SAN QUENTIN.
• I spent quite a few days during the Christmas season of 1998 in the visiting room for death row prisoners at San Quentin State Prison. ...
• Since every man on death row in California is "housed" at San Quentin, prisoners' families are often hundreds of miles away. The prison also holds prisoners from other states and even other countries. ... The father, in his required "state clothes," sat in rotation next to each of his loved ones, talking to them individually, holding their hands, or wrapping his arm around their shoulders. ...
• Across the room another prison dad held his sleeping toddler son across his chest. ... The kids received and opened them with glee, totally unaware that they were children of the "condemned" in a maximum-security prison. ...
• No mind, nothing-not the cold or the "state clothes" or the lack of pictures or the bare tree-could stop the true spirit of Christmas which pervaded the room, a spirit of acceptance, of friendship, of love, of caring, and of gratitude for life.

• Death Row - San Quentin.
• San Francisco Chronicle article, 10/10/03. ...
• Tribute to Johnny Cash - California prison concerts defined outlaw persona SF Chronicle article, 9/13/03. ...
• Marin IJ article: a major part of everyday life in prison 5/27/03. ...
• Marin IJ article: Famous athletes, famous killers pepper prison's colorful history 5/26/03. ...
• Jailhouse rock Metallica unveils new bassist, confronts old demons during San Quentin gig Contra Costa Times article, 5/3/03. ...
• A taste of freedom: Sonoma State show displays artwork from San Quentin San Francisco Chronicle article, 4/18/03. ...
• KTVU's A Visit To San Quentin's Death Row Click on "The Walk Of Death" for slide show. ...
• Drama behind bars: San Quentin inmates taste freedom performing a play about slavery and liberation Photos, SF Chronicle, 11/19/02. ...
• Carmel-by-the-Penitentiary/ The last, undiscovered Bay Area real estate hotspot has a slight drawback As seen from the Village, San Quentin shines in the evening light as a boat passes by on Wednesday, January 16, 2002. ...
• The Bad Boys of Summer: Surrounded by armed guards and high walls, the San Quentin Giants, an inmate baseball team, always have the home-field advantage. ...
• Looking for someone at San Quentin State Prison? Call the CDC Inmate Locator line: (916) 445-6713 for location and mailing address of any California prisoner. ...
• San Quentin & Death Row in the news (3/6 most recent).
• SF Chronicle 9/22/02 article: Some say educating prisoners a smart move * Photos of San Quentin & Detailed Layout .
• The Star Rover Jack London's 1915 novel, set in San Quentin - online. "The great reincarnation novel" based on a real prisoner at San Quentin. ...

• State prisoners continue education behind bars .
• September 23, 2002 SAN QUENTIN -- Jesse Reed studied nights and weekends to get his associate arts degree, squeezing in extra hours with the lamp turned low to avoid annoying his roommate.
• That’s as far as he can go for now at his alma mater, San Quentin State Prison, which runs an all-volunteer program with the help of a small private college. ...
• Proponents argue that the programs pay off by producing inmates who are more likely to stay out of prison when they’re released, but the programs remain highly unpopular with many. ...
• Reed, who is serving 25-to-life for murder, was among the first students to sign up when San Quentin’s college classes started in 1988, with teachers and textbooks provided by Patten College, a nondenominational private college in Oakland. ...
• Reed’s studies were interrupted when he was transferred to a prison without higher education. ... The state funds programs to teach inmates vocational skills and get their high school diploma but will not pay for college. ...
• "People feel ‘Why should somebody who commits a crime get a free ride to college?’ That’s the position of the state and the Legislature and probably most of the people of California," said Terry Thornton, spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections.
• Money for the San Quentin program dried up in 1994, but the program "took on a life of its own," said Patten President Gary Moncher. ...
• Today, about 200 inmates attend college classes at the prison’s Robert E. ...
• "We want them to be able to make good decisions about how they’re going to conduct themselves," said prison spokesman Lt. ...
• But inmates in the general prison population get their own commencement in the prison chapel. ...
• Among the Class of 2002 was Reed, who transferred back to San Quentin recently and finally finished what he started 14 years ago. ...
• Then, guards shepherded relatives through prison gates while graduates took off their gowns and, dressed once more in the prison uniform of blue jeans and blue shirt, filed back to prison life. ...

• and what does it do to the human spirit? In this panel discussion we are bringing together ex-offenders, prison activists, writers, and artists who have either served time, taught or worked in prisons to talk about prison culture, art as rehabilitation, vengeance, forgiveness, and why art, more than some other things might offer a kind of salvation. ...
• AIDA DE ARTEAGA is the Artist Facilitator at San Quentin Prison. ... She piloted a music program at San Quentin in the 80s and was awarded grants from the California Arts Council and the NEA. ...
• RHODESSA JONES is an actress, dancer, teacher, singer and writer based in San Francisco. ...
• San Francisco artist RICHARD KAMLER spent two years as an Artist in Residence at San Quentin Prison, an experience which dramatically changed the focus of his art. ... He currently teaches at SF State and the SF Art Institute.
• San Francisco Assistant Sheriff MICHAEL MARCUM spent six years in prison for 2nd degree homicide. He was released in 1972 and has devoted his life since then to prison reform, prisoner rehabilitation and rights, and alternative sentencing. ...
• KHALIL SHAHEED is a jazz trumpet player and educator, who studied music and composition at San Francisco State University and Southern Illinois University and participated in the Arts & Corrections Program at San Quentin State Prison. ...

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