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21 Jun 2016, 11:02 am
Prison largely incapacitates, but not entirely, as this AP story reminds us.Officials say a prison guard is recovering after he was attacked by a condemned inmate on California's death row.They say 27-year-old Jesse Manzo assaulted the San Quentin State Prison correctional officer Thursday evening as he was being escorted back to his cell after taking a shower.Manzo slipped his wrist out of an open handcuff and used the handcuff to… [read post]
20 May 2016, 12:28 pm
Other provisions of the measure would allow death row inmates to be housed in prisons other than San Quentin and require them to work and pay victim restitution while they await execution. [read post]
20 Mar 2016, 9:49 am
LEXIS 33382 (WD WI, March 15, 2016), a Wisconsin federal district court dismissed Muslim inmates' challenges to a rule barring inmate-led religious services (which resulted in a failure to hold Jumu'ah services in April of 2012), and challenges to the failure to hire a Muslim chaplain.A California federal district court (ND Cal., March 14 and 17, 2016) issued essentially identical opinions in 6 separate cases allowing inmates at San Quentin to move ahead with suits… [read post]
4 Jan 2016, 1:34 pm
After more than 10 years of steep declines in crime, Los Angeles joins the growing number of large U.S. cities that have reported serious increases in crime.CA Death Row Inmates Don't Fear Execution: A rare tour by officials of California's death row and death chamber at San Quentin State Prison last Tuesday provided the outside world with a glimpse of life inside the prison that houses the majority of the state's 750… [read post]
18 Dec 2015, 11:10 am
There wasn’t anything left for me to do anyway, so I left my San Francisco office and drove over the Golden Gate Bridge to San Quentin State Prison. [read post]
29 Oct 2015, 12:21 pm
Monnie Wright worked as a correctional officer at San Quentin State Prison, and he lived on the San Quentin premises. [read post]
30 Sep 2015, 8:32 pm
Death penalty opponents, federal judges and defense attorneys have been so successful at blocking capital punishment in California that a San Quentin Death Row inmate has more to fear from being extradited for a capital murder to another state than seeing his sentence carried out here. [read post]
31 Aug 2015, 7:48 pm
Six inmates at San Quentin State Prison have been diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease as of Sunday, officials said. [read post]
5 Aug 2015, 1:00 pm
Davis, Acting Warden of San Quentin State Prison, Nos. 09-99012, 09-99013 (Ikuta with NR Smith and Murguia) --- Finding that a reasoned opinion of the California Supreme Court regarding a California death-row prisoner's claim of penalty-phase ineffective assistance was entitled to deference under AEDPA, the panel reversed the district court's grant of relief from a death sentence. [read post]
27 May 2015, 12:08 pm
(And, on that front, there's utterly nothing that stops the state, a victim, a reporter, a rabid conservative, or pretty much anyone from cranking out a blog post or press release or even a letter to every single prisoner at San Quentin that encloses the opinion and includes a post-it with the guy's name.)But my guess is that even all this is probably moot. [read post]
20 May 2015, 2:07 pm
Development Of San Quentin's Land Debated: The $18 million project to demolish and rebuild San Quentin State Prison's boiler house, which is non-compliant with the Bay Area's air emissions regulations, is reigniting the debate over whether the aging prison should stay or go. [read post]
8 May 2015, 8:00 am
According to the appellate court, a year after beginning work at San Quentin State Prison (“San Quentin”), Monnie Wright voluntarily moved into a State-owned rental unit owned within the prison’s gated grounds. [read post]
30 Mar 2015, 12:52 pm
CA's Death Row Runs out of Room: Governor Jerry Brown is seeking $3.2 million from the California legislature for the addition of 100 cells for condemned inmates at San Quentin State Prison because the state's death row has run out of room. [read post]
27 Feb 2015, 12:42 pm
Monnie Wright worked at the San Quentin prison, where the state maintained residential housing for some of the guards, including Wright. [read post]
30 Jan 2015, 1:15 pm
., guards) who voluntarily elect to pay market rates to live on the grounds of San Quentin prison?! [read post]
11 Dec 2014, 11:30 am
Ron Davis is now the warden of San Quentin and thus is automatically substituted as the respondent for the departed Kevin Chappell. [read post]
14 Nov 2014, 6:01 am
Cyrus Farivar Some prisoners told Ars that despite the cellphone ban, phones do show up on the inside. 23 more images in gallery Usually cameras are not allowed inside San Quentin State Prison, but for a special media event such as the one held on Thursday, an exception was made. [read post]
14 Nov 2014, 6:00 am
Cyrus Farivar SAN QUENTIN, CA—It sounds almost like a parody of Silicon Valley: two wealthy San Francisco Bay Area tech veterans want San Quentin State Prison inmates to learn basic computer programming as a way to better themselves. [read post]
24 Oct 2013, 9:01 pm
Capital punishment in the United States is often considered in terms of its constitutional vulnerability. [read post]
6 Oct 2013, 8:23 am
And while they wait on San Quentin State Prison's death row, they lead a relatively comfortable existence, with single cells and access to the best attorneys fighting for prisoners' rights. [read post]
