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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]
24 May 2023, 1:51 pm by Meghan Nguyen
He became the first Asian American on death row in San Quentin. [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 Feb 2021, 3:00 am by John Jenkins
” Now, unlike the perps Joe & Bill sent to San Quentin at the end of every show, a corporation doesn’t have a 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination. [read post]
31 Dec 2020, 8:22 am by Howard Bashman
San Quentin Prison COVID releases delayed by state Supreme Court”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report. [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]
8 Dec 2020, 5:20 pm by Tom Smith
” As of May 2020, Daleiden could be forced to pay $2.2. million for the civil lawsuit and face up to ten years of prison time in San Quentin penitentiary if convicted of the remaining ten criminal charges. [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]
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
A Marin County Superior Court judge has ordered the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to respond by August 4, 2020, in an expedited briefing schedule, to petitions requesting immediate release of 21 people at San Quentin State Prison. [read post]
16 Dec 2019, 4:46 am by Andrew Murray
Department of Labor Office of Inspector General Special Agent-in-Charge Quentin Heiden. [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, 1:37 pm by Emma Zack
The execution chamber at San Quentin Prison will be closed. [read post]