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24 May 2011, 8:40 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The former warden of San Quentin and acting secretary of the California prison system testified that she “‘absolutely believe[s] that we make people worse, and that we are not meeting public safety by the way we treat people. [read post]
7 Mar 2012, 8:11 am by Steve Hall
San Quentin Warden Jeanne Woodford supports scrapping the death penalty. [read post]
3 Nov 2008, 6:29 am
We're lucky in Texas our Legislature has embraced the idea of treatment funding to avoid new prison building which, as the former San Quentin warden says, may be the only real option to stem the swelling tide of prisoners and red ink in the state corrections budget. [read post]
3 May 2012, 8:59 am by Steve Hall
California revised its protocol, but an appeals court has blocked a resumption of executions over the same objections.Motions filed by Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley's office in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday asked that the warden of San Quentin State Prison put convicted murderers Mitchell Carleton Sims and Tiequon Aundray Cox to death by the single-drug protocol or show cause why the executions cannot proceed.Sims, 52, and Cox,… [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 8:17 am by Steve Hall
Heller, an ex-prosecutor who wrote the 1978 initiative; Jeanne Woodford, a former warden of San Quentin State Prison who oversaw four executions; and former L.A. [read post]
10 Feb 2011, 12:55 pm by Steve Hall
But just as Tennessee officials seek to resume executions, a federal judge in California is said to have convened a most unusual hearing Tuesday at San Quentin Prison. [read post]
22 Nov 2008, 4:10 pm
"OP 770 states the procedure is subject to the approval of the San Quentin Warden(Warden) and the CDCR Secretary. [read post]
11 Dec 2014, 11:30 am by Kent Scheidegger
  Ron Davis is now the warden of San Quentin and thus is automatically substituted as the respondent for the departed Kevin Chappell. [read post]
12 May 2011, 9:30 am by CJLF Staff
  Dan Tilkin of KATU News has this story.Former San Quentin Warden Appointed to New Role:   Carol J. [read post]
10 Jun 2010, 9:49 am by Steve Hall
Brown speculated that reporters and the others have been allowed to attend as the "at least 12 reputable citizens" the San Quentin warden must select to witness each execution. [read post]
26 Oct 2011, 1:06 pm by Steve Hall
McAndrew, now a prison consultant, joined a small group of ex-wardens turned death penalty abolitionists, including Jeanne Woodford of San Quentin in California and Donald Cabana of Parchman Penitentiary in Mississippi. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 3:27 pm by jleaming@acslaw.org
Jeanne Woodford, former warden at San Quentin state prison and supporter of the SAFE California Act, said in a press statement, “Back in 1978 [when the state expanded its use of capital punishment], we did not have an alternative sentence that would keep convicted killers behind bars forever. [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 4:36 pm by Jeralyn
The judge noted that former San Quentin Prison Warden Jeanne Woodford said each execution costs the state between $70,000 and $200,000 in overtime for staff, crowd control, training, security and other expenses associated with carrying out lethal injections. [read post]
18 May 2007, 7:04 pm
By CHRIS FRANCESCANI and ELIZABETH TRIBOLET May 16, 2007 Here's a look inside California's death chamber of the future.The state is in the midst of rebuilding its San Quentin prison execution chamber, which was built the year Amelia Earhart disappeared, in the midst of a growing national debate about the humanity of the popular three-drug cocktail death by lethal injection.Editor's Picks * Should… [read post]
29 Sep 2011, 12:46 pm by Steve Hall
We see this as a historic shift that will carry us through to the elections,” said Jeanne Woodford, former San Quentin warden and spokesperson for the campaign to put an initiative on the ballot to replace the death penalty with life without parole at the November 2012 election. [read post]
10 Aug 2011, 12:46 pm by Brian Evans
A former warden of San Quentin State Prison, Jeanne Woodford, testified that the death penalty in California is “wasteful”, “counterproductive to public safety” and “terribly unfair to the victims’ families”. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 7:59 am by Lovechilde
As Jeanne Woodford the former Warden at San Quentin State Prison, and current Executive Director at Death Penalty Focus, put it, this is a "game-changer of massive proportions. [read post]
18 Jul 2011, 6:00 am by Courtney Minick
Heller testified at that hearing along with Jeanne Woodford, the former warden of San Quentin Penitentiary, which houses California’s death row and execution chamber. [read post]
3 May 2011, 9:05 am by CJLF Staff
This request follows the decision of San Quentin warden Michael Martel to replace and assemble a new execution team and Governor Jerry Brown's decision last week to abandon plans for building a new death row facility at San Quentin State Prison. [read post]
15 Apr 2012, 9:54 am
The movement is getting some unexpected allies, including the a man who successfully campaigned for the death penalty approval in 1978, the former prosecutor who wrote that law, the former warden of San Quentin State Prison and a former district attorney for L.A. [read post]