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13 May 2024, 7:02 am by Yosi Yahoudai
” Lawyers for the San Quentin inmates said prison officials can be held liable under that standard. [read post]
8 May 2024, 6:17 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
City and law enforcement officials in San Bernardino County say they are outraged after dozens of death row inmates were transferred from San Quentin State Prison to Chino. [read post]
12 Apr 2024, 3:00 am by Jeff Welty
Not because their sentences have changed, but because Governor Gavin Newsom is moving them out of the San Quentin prison and into the general population of several other high-security institutions. [read post]
18 Feb 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
During the 1950s, Mississippi, Maryland, and New Mexico all carried out executions by lethal gas.In its 100-year history, the most famous gas chamber execution took place in California in 1960 when Caryl Chessman was killed at San Quentin State Prison. [read post]
6 Oct 2023, 2:19 pm by John Ross
After an outbreak of COVID-19 at a California prison, officials transfer 122 high-risk inmates to San Quentin State Prison, which had no known cases. [read post]
17 Apr 2021, 10:22 am by aerlawnew4
 Executions were required to be carried out by hanging at one of two California state prisons: San Quentin State Prison or Folsom State Prison. 1900s The California death penalty faced some serious legal issues in the 1900s. [read post]
17 Apr 2021, 10:22 am by Ambrosio Rodriguez
 Executions were required to be carried out by hanging at one of two California state prisons: San Quentin State Prison or Folsom State Prison. 1900s The California death penalty faced some serious legal issues in the 1900s. [read post]
17 Mar 2021, 6:47 am by Ryan J. Farrick
The family of a California inmate who died from novel coronavirus has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Corrections, claiming a combination of poor planning and general negligence led to an uncontrolled outbreak. [read post]
22 Dec 2020, 9:00 pm by Austin Sarat
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, saying the inmates had not exhausted their administrative remedies, reversed and lifted that injunction.The refusal of courts like the Fifth Circuit to intervene should not distract us from recognizing the devastating toll that COVID-19 has had on death row.The California outbreak at San Quentin killed 13 people on the state’s death row. [read post]
25 Oct 2020, 7:48 pm by Uthman Law Office
A160122) 2020 WL 6144780, at *1–2 Petition claiming San Quentin does not adequately protect against COVID-19 infection  Ivan Von Staich, incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison,serving a sentence of 17 years to life for a second degree  murder consecutive to a 13-year sentence for the attempted murder. [read post]
The California Court of Appeal First Appellate District has ordered San Quentin State Prison (SQ) to reduce its population by half. [read post]
2 Aug 2020, 10:31 pm by Uthman Law Office
The petitions were filed by inmates at San Quentin in pro per and by and attorneys representing inmates, including the San Francisco Public Defender. [read post]
5 Aug 2019, 6:44 pm
Quentin, ed. (2005) Prose and Cons: Essays on Prison Literature in the United States. [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 7:31 am by Kent Scheidegger
When I visited San Quentin a few years back, I was appalled to see that you can get into a prison with less sophisticated scanning than you get boarding an airplane. [read post]
28 Mar 2019, 6:56 am by David M. Boertje
The Governor rescinded the lethal injection protocol and closed the San Quentin execution chamber concurrent with his announcement. [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 1:04 pm by CrimProf BlogEditor
From the Los Angeles Times: The order will prevent the state from putting prisoners to death by granting temporary reprieves to all 737 condemned inmates on California’s death row, the largest in the nation. [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 10:18 am by Lovechilde
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]
13 Mar 2019, 10:18 am by Lovechilde
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]
12 Mar 2019, 12:44 pm by Alicia Maule
Some penitentiaries, such as Oregon State and San Quentin have active running groups. [read post]
1 Jan 2018, 8:44 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Hardened criminals inside California's famous San Quentin prison get 10 hours.Yet kids at a Dallas County correctional center for boys went months, sometimes more than a year, without going outdoors more than a few times.For years, the boys at the Lyle B. [read post]