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20 Jun 2011, 8:08 am by Steve Hall
Mitchell, also forecast that the tab for maintaining the death penalty will climb to $9 billion by 2030, when San Quentin's death row will have swollen to well over 1,000. [read post]
9 Jun 2011, 12:12 pm by brian
" At press time, officials at San Quentin State Prison had determined that inmate Vincente “Lobo” Díaz came across as slightly eccentric, granted, but basically likable. [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]
24 May 2011, 8:55 am by Lovechilde
San Quentin State Prison Professor Bill Ong Hing, who served on the California Commission for the Fair Administration of Justice (CCFAJ), argued recently that California's death penalty should be abolished because of its intractable problems: The death penalty is too costly, the possibility is high that a person who has been wrongfully convicted will be put to death, capital punishment inordinately affects communities of color, the imposition of the death … [read post]
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]
13 May 2011, 2:26 pm by brian
She brings to the job her experience as the warden of San Quentin State Prison in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she oversaw four executions. [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]
8 May 2011, 6:03 pm by Michael O'Brien
Douglas sues various officials at San Quentin State Prison (SQSP) for failing to provide him with a protein substitute for nuts and fish to which he is allergic. [read post]
5 May 2011, 10:19 am by Steve Hall
He's responsible for everything that goes on at San Quentin. [read post]
4 May 2011, 11:20 am by Michael O'Hear
  Consequently, many if not all male officers felt that women should not work as officers in male prisons, particularly in high-security prisons like Folsom and San Quentin. . . . [read post]
4 May 2011, 6:30 am
"California backs off on plan to resume executions this year; San Quentin State Prison's new warden wants to recruit a new execution team, prompting the corrections department to say more time will be needed before a federal judge can review revised lethal injection procedures": Carol J. [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]
3 May 2011, 8:28 am by Steve Hall
There’s a new warden at San Quentin State Prison and per state regulations, he’s assembling his own lethal injection team. [read post]
29 Apr 2011, 11:34 am by brian
Jerry Brown on Thursday canceled construction of a $356-million death row at San Quentin prison, saying it would be "unconscionable" to spend so much on condemned inmates as the state is slashing budgets for education and other social services. [read post]
28 Apr 2011, 4:07 pm by Steve Hall
Brown Jr. today canceled plans to build new housing for condemned inmates at San Quentin. [read post]
21 Apr 2011, 12:18 pm
A spokesman for San Quentin stated that inmate members of the prison fire department are trained paramedics who have not been convicted of violent or sexual offenses. [read post]
21 Apr 2011, 9:26 am by CJLF Staff
Any Help is Better Than No Help:  CNN writer Amanda Watts reports inmates at California's San Quentin helped rescue two boaters who had fallen and drifted from their boat in the San Francisco Bay early Wednesday. [read post]
13 Apr 2011, 9:19 am by Steve Hall
A California road trip that brought sodium thiopental from Arizona to San Quentin emerged in nearly 1,000 pages of documents released by the A.C.L.U. of Northern California late last year. [read post]
11 Apr 2011, 1:07 pm by Steve Hall
And: No matter how it arrived at San Quentin State Prison, analysis records released this week show the sodium thiopental meets quality standards. [read post]