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23 May 2009, 12:25 am
"We're not making intelligent choices about who should be in state prison and who shouldn't," Woodford said.During her stint as warden at San Quentin from 1999 to 2004, Woodford initiated a number of experimental programs aimed at reducing recidivism. [read post]
7 Feb 2011, 12:49 pm by Steve Hall
And: The judge's latest review starts with the trip to San Quentin, where he'll be accompanied by state prison officials, lawyers and five news organizations, including the Mercury News. [read post]
14 Nov 2014, 6:00 am by Cyrus Farivar
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]
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]
14 Apr 2007, 7:07 am
"To sneak a project like this through is just outrageous," said Assemblyman Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, whose Marin County district includes San Quentin. [read post]
9 Feb 2011, 8:14 am by Steve Hall
The federal judge weighing whether California can resume executing condemned prisoners toured San Quentin State Prison's new lethal injection facility Tuesday in what he called a fact-finding mission to help determine whether the state's revised procedures meet constitutional standards. [read post]
21 Aug 2018, 8:45 am
The strike will begin on Aug. 21, the anniversary of a 1971 prison rebellion in San Quentin, California, and will end on Sept. 9, the anniversary of the famous Attica uprising, a 1971 prison protest in upstate New York that turned deadly. [read post]
25 Sep 2010, 8:23 pm by Steve Hall
He is scheduled to be executed at San Quentin prison on Wednesday morning.This month, Mr. [read post]
10 Jul 2012, 11:21 am by CJLF Staff
San Quentin Prison Spokesman Answers Questions About Scott Peterson: FoxNews.com reports a list of questions about death row inmate Scott Peterson was recently submitted to San Quentin prison by Fox News Channel San Francisco bureau correspondent Claudia Cowan and producer Mike Lundin. [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]
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]
18 Aug 2010, 8:33 am by Terry Lenamon
The governor announced that he would be "borrowing" $64 million from the General Fund in order to move forward with one of his pet projects, the construction of a new death row facility at San Quentin. [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]
20 May 2015, 2:07 pm by CJLF Staff
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]
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]
22 Dec 2020, 9:00 pm by Austin Sarat
 In fact, the likelihood of getting COVID-19 in prison is 5.5 times higher than in the general population.Since the start of the pandemic, some of the worst outbreaks in the country have been in prisons, such as at California’s San Quentin, where the coronavirus infected 75% of the those incarcerated there.Prisons in Illinois have also been particularly hard hit. [read post]
26 Oct 2011, 1:55 pm by Steve Hall
At least 12 inmates on death row in San Quentin have exhausted their legal appeals and could face imminent execution once the courts resolve a challenge on the use of lethal injections. [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]
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]