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26 Aug 2007, 8:51 pm
He attributed the state’s prison problems to tough-on-crime lawmakers who made political hay out of sentencing laws that filled the state prisons without expanding either the facilities or their services. [read post]
31 Oct 2007, 8:48 am
Superior Court Judge Lynn O'Malley Taylor agreed with lawyers for two condemned prisoners that the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation was enacting a regulation when it announced new procedures in May for lethal injections at San Quentin State Prison. [read post]
30 Mar 2015, 12:52 pm by CJLF Staff
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]
16 Dec 2011, 9:12 am by Steve Hall
" D'Opal said that the CDCR also failed to disclose the costs of executions, all of which are conducted at San Quentin Prison in Marin County. [read post]
I’ll forever remember the phone call I received in 2017 from Rahsaan Thomas in San Quentin State Prison—who made it clear to me then, and has since made it clear to all Californians, that the first step to empowering people impacted by mass incarceration is to restore their right to vote. [read post]
29 Nov 2006, 2:31 pm
In addition, the brief asserts that the execution team at San Quentin State Prison is "unlicensed, untrained, unprofessional and incompetent" to carry out its duties. [read post]
5 May 2011, 10:19 am by Steve Hall
He's responsible for everything that goes on at San Quentin. [read post]
24 Aug 2007, 8:33 am
The state maintains that one key fix is an upgraded death chamber to replace San Quentin's antiquated old execution unit. [read post]
19 Sep 2008, 3:06 pm
He argued the changes were exempt from undergoing public hearings because it affected only San Quentin State Prison, where Morales was to be executed, and it did not change procedures throughout the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.And:The case came before the appeals court because Morales' attorneys filed a lawsuit in the Marin County Superior Court, where San Quentin is located, against the California Department of… [read post]
15 Dec 2006, 5:26 pm
Although the judge didn't come out and explicitly say it, there were strong hints that San Quentin personnel may be stealing the sodium thiopental sedative that is supposed to knock out the inmates  before they receive the second injection of deadly — and extremely painful — chemicals.On page 10 of the opinion, Fogel noted that "one former execution team leader, who was responsible for the custody of sodium thiopental (which in… [read post]
31 May 2011, 10:17 am by Steve Hall
Stylish in a collarless black pantsuit hung loosely around her slight frame, she emanated none of the toughness that a prison guard adopts to deal with hard-case inmates.But a look into those brown eyes reveals the steel that made her one of the first female cellblock guards at San Quentin State Prison, the first female warden there in 1999, and then head of California's prison system from 2004 to 2006.The steel is in a gaze so steady her… [read post]
14 Sep 2007, 7:38 pm
Fogel's decision came after a lengthy round of hearings last fall and a tour of San Quentin. [read post]
12 Aug 2010, 1:40 pm by Steve Hall
Arnold Schwarzenegger to expand the death row complex at San Quentin State Prison. [read post]
1 Nov 2007, 8:37 am
The state had argued that the procedures were not statewide regulations because they applied only to San Quentin. [read post]
4 Mar 2011, 8:55 am by Steve Hall
That money is to be repaid by the sale of prison construction bonds.When lawmakers in 2003 approved the new San Quentin complex, it was expected to cost $220 million. [read post]
11 Jun 2008, 1:11 pm
"Ground has not yet been broken on a new death row at California's San Quentin State Prison, but the projected cost of the project has soared by nearly 80 percent for a compound that could be full only three years after it opens, said an audit reported by the Los Angeles Times. [read post]
28 Aug 2012, 2:25 pm by CJLF Staff
Speed Freak Killer Further Aids Investigators: Fox News headlines Speed Freak Killer Wesley Shermantine was let out of San Quentin Sunday to help investigators locate victims. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 1:36 pm by Steve Hall
(San Quentin State Prison even offers views of San Francisco Bay and is set to receive a new $356 million facility.)So, how can you help? [read post]
26 Apr 2010, 9:37 am by Steve Hall
In the San Diego Union Tribune, John Wilkens writes, "State's death penalty: a hollow promise? [read post]