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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
He is scheduled to be executed at San Quentin prison on Wednesday morning.This month, Mr. [read post]
24 Mar 2017, 4:49 am
TLM participant Chris SchuhmakerLast week, SiriusXM announced a new documentary about life behind bars in California's San Quentin penitentiary. [read post]
31 Oct 2007, 2:36 am
All state executions take place at San Quentin. [read post]
24 Jul 2007, 12:17 am
Don Specter, director of the Prison Law Office near San Quentin Prison in Marin County, .... took exception to the notion that an inmate cap would mean early release of prisoners. [read post]
30 Oct 2007, 8:08 pm
"The undisputed evidence establishes that (the execution protocol) is a rule or regulation of general application," said Taylor, a retired judge sitting by special assignment in the court.The protocol, she said, "implements a statewide policy on lethal injections for condemned inmates," prescribes duties for state officials outside San Quentin and applies to prisoners at other institutions.The 667 condemned inmates in California include 15… [read post]
22 Feb 2009, 9:30 am
Here is how the piece starts: It's been three years since the night a federal judge blocked an execution at San Quentin State Prison because of concerns that the state's haphazard lethal injection methods could inflict prolonged and excruciating pain on a condemned inmate, violating the U.S. [read post]
8 Sep 2010, 3:01 pm
There are now 705 prisoners on Death Row in San Quentin State Prison.Their fate awaits the resolution of a number of legal challenges to the lethal injection procedures used to carry out the death sentence... [read post]
8 May 2011, 6:03 pm
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]
12 May 2011, 9:41 am
As the warden of San Quentin, Ms. [read post]
27 May 2015, 12:08 pm
(And, on that front, there's utterly nothing that stops the state, a victim, a reporter, a rabid conservative, or pretty much anyone from cranking out a blog post or press release or even a letter to every single prisoner at San Quentin that encloses the opinion and includes a post-it with the guy's name.)But my guess is that even all this is probably moot. [read post]
30 Jul 2007, 7:45 am
LINK Here's part of the abstract:LETTER FROM CALIFORNIA about Vernell Crittendon, the recently retired spokesman for San Quentin State Prison and the prison's public face for all thirteen executions since California resumed capital punishment in 1992. [read post]
10 Jan 2011, 12:20 pm
The San Francisco Chronicle reports, "State buys execution drug from British firm. [read post]
11 Mar 2007, 8:18 pm
According to the San Francisco Chronicle The California Supreme Court, in an unusual step, has ordered state prosecutors to respond to defense lawyers' claims that new evidence shows a San Quentin State Prison inmate is innocent of the 1985 murder of a prison guard that sent him to Death Row.Jarvis Masters' appeal is still a longshot in a court that upholds more than 90 percent of the death sentences it considers. [read post]
2 Jun 2007, 5:09 pm
Judge Fogel will visit San Quentin in October. [read post]
24 May 2011, 8:40 am
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]
6 Aug 2010, 9:01 am
The 42-page lawsuit was filed in Marin County, where death row inmates are housed in San Quentin State Prison.The suit was filed by San Francisco-based law firm Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, which is not involved in the Morales case. [read post]
21 Jun 2016, 11:02 am
Prison largely incapacitates, but not entirely, as this AP story reminds us.Officials say a prison guard is recovering after he was attacked by a condemned inmate on California's death row.They say 27-year-old Jesse Manzo assaulted the San Quentin State Prison correctional officer Thursday evening as he was being escorted back to his cell after taking a shower.Manzo slipped his wrist out of an open handcuff and used the handcuff to… [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]
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]
