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	San Quentin State Prison (SQ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		San Quentin State Prison was opened in July 1852, and covers 432 acres.
		San Quentin was established in July 1852 at Point Quentin in Marin county as an answer to the rampant lawlessness in California at the time.
		San Quentin housed both male and female inmates until 1933 when the women's prison at Tehachapi was built.
	www.corr.ca.gov /Visitors/fac_prison_SQ.html (288 words)

	USATODAY.com - San Quentin sought for land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		SAN QUENTIN, Calif. — On a rocky point overlooking San Francisco Bay looms one of the nation's harshest symbols of justice — historic San Quentin State Prison, an aging fortress long associated with some of the baddest men around.
		San Quentin is also home to California's burgeoning death row, so crowded and security-challenged that the state wants a new facility for the condemned.
		San Quentin's death row lacks amenities for an aging population, such as cell doors wide enough for walkers and wheelchairs and a modern infirmary.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-11-16-san-quentin-usat_x.htm (1118 words)

	San Quentin
		San Quentin Prison is the oldest prison in California.
		Located north of San Francisco, in the heart of one of the state's most affluent areas, San Quentin Prison is California's only death row with a Gas Chamber.
		San Quentin has a bloody reputation, a culture where violence and boredom make up life day-by-day, where gang culture, rape and silence runs deep.
	www.rotten.com /library/crime/prison/san-quentin (633 words)

	San Quentin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This segment is the portion of the San Rafael branch line extending from San Rafael to San Quentin Landing.
		San Quentin Landing was once the main dock of the North Pacific Coast.
		Given the competition in San Rafael from the San Francisco and North Pacific RR, the NPC decided to shift its main dock to the one closer to its home base in Sauselito.
	www.ironhorse129.com /Railroad/san_rafael_to_san_quentin.htm (222 words)

	San Quentin Blues
		At a time when taxpayers are being asked to sacrifice, she sees the proposal as "an outrageous expenditure" even while acknowledging that overcrowding on the row "has contributed to conditions that in some respects are inhumane" and unsafe for both inmates and prison guards.
		Perched on San Francisco Bay 20 miles north of the city, San Quentin from a distance resembles a sprawling tourist resort, with its cream-colored walls and red-tiled roofs.
		Although the state has been executing prisoners at San Quentin since before Abraham Lincoln was president, it wasn't until 1934 that the original death house was built.
	www.cjcj.org /press/san_quentin.html (1523 words)

	San Quentin
		San Quentin is famous as a Level 4 prison, but the security measures necessary in Level 4 combined with the overpopulation were deemed cruel and unusual punishment by a district judge a few years ago.
		So they switched to Level 2, keeping the overpopulation but housing inmates who have worked down their points and are, for the most part, 'programming' (getting with the program).
		For the next 45 minutes, we weren’t in the San Quentin yard, and they weren’t either – we were just playing the game we’d all learned back home, growing up.
	www.pobronson.com /San_Quentin.htm (570 words)

	San Pablo Avenue Times
		SAN QUENTIN -- The death chamber at San Quentin State Prison was crowded.
		SAN QUENTIN --- The California state prison here is a sprawling complex clearly visible from the San Rafael Bridge and with a spectacular view of the Bay Area, but the lives of the men inside the penitentiary, and the execution of its death row inmates, are largely absent from the public's consciousness.
		San Pablo Avenue is one of the region's most historic and vital passages, tracing its roots to the earliest days of settlement in the East Bay.
	journalism.berkeley.edu /projects/sanpablo/stories/000319.html (450 words)

	Renovation Plan for San Quentin Opposed (washingtonpost.com)
		San Quentin was California's first prison and remains one of the oldest still in operation in the United States.
		Even without its enviable location, San Quentin's expansion plan was bound to spark a flashpoint, because of the political debate concerning its most notorious residents.
		And it is a large part of the reason behind the push for a new death row: The original condemned-inmates unit at San Quentin was built in 1934 to hold a mere 68 men.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A57914-2004Dec11.html (889 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State -- San Quentin is Scott Peterson's new home
		And that may be just fine with Scott Peterson, who was sentenced to death Wednesday for murdering his pregnant wife and dumping her body into the bay near the Berkeley Marina – about 10 miles, as the crow flies, from where he'll likely spend the rest of his life.
		Now that Peterson has become the 644th prisoner awaiting death in San Quentin's execution chamber, county officials were eager to transfer him to the state prison about 20 miles north of San Francisco.
		San Quentin also houses 5,300 other prisoners, but they don't interact at all with the condemned inmates.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/state/20050316-1133-ca-lacipeterson-sanquentin.html (765 words)

	Baseball - Southern Pacific Railroad Players visit the San Quentin Prison
		This most unusual item is the small (6"x8") printed scorecard for a baseball game played at California’s notorious high security San Quentin State Prison between the baseball club of the Southern Pacific RR and the San Quentin “All-Stars” on July 24, 1932.
		As was the Central Pacific, which consolidated with the Southern Pacific in 1884, San Quentin was also a “pioneer” institution in Golden State.
		San Quentin in Marin County, just north of San Francisco, in July, 1852, using prison labor.
	cprr.org /Museum/Ephemera/Baseball_SPRR_San_Quentin.html (210 words)

	San Quentin six, etc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Carrow was counsel in two San Quentin Prison related cases in which he represented San Quentin inmates charged with murder and other crimes.
		Magee, a San Quentin inmate, was accused of kidnapping and killing Judge Haley.
		Labeled by the media as "The San Quentin Six case," the second trial was of approximately seventeen months duration and was, at the time, the longest criminal trial in the history of the state.
	www.carrow.com /San-Quentin-Six.html (387 words)

	San Quentin Baseball - CaliforniaConnected.org
		This is baseball season at San Quentin State Prison—home to 5,796 inmates, a few dozen of whom have earned the privilege of playing on the prison’s two teams.
		Inmate enrichment programs at the legendary San Quentin prison, which is also home to the 608 men on California’s death row, draws in roughly 700 volunteers from the community, making it one of the best community-supported prisons in California.
		The success of the San Quentin baseball program has drawn favorable attention from the media as television cameras recording the opening game will undoubtedly draw in a much larger audience than non-playing inmates.
	www.californiaconnected.org /wp/archives/80 (487 words)

	ANABlog: San Quentin
		So, a year later, they packed him off to San Quentin to serenade felons for another live album, which actually was ten times the seller that its predecessor was.
		San Quentin is leaden and far less genuine an album.
		The Carter Family, The Statler Brothers, and Carl Perkins are all given room to shine, which is fine on a track like "Daddy Sang Bass", but near ruinous on the closing medley where each get their chance to sing one of Johnny's hits.
	www.analogartsensemble.net /2005/12/san-quentin.html (460 words)

	INSIDE DEATH ROW / At San Quentin, 647 condemned killers wait to die in the most populous execution antechamber in the ...
		Death Row at San Quentin State Prison is an antiseptic form of hell, nearly devoid of the things, like intimacy and love, that give life value.
		San Quentin was completed in 1854 as California's first penitentiary.
		Many of San Quentin's original buildings are still in use, including the old dungeon, where the torturous isolation cells are now used for storing evidence.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/20/INGFUFHCFL56.DTL (1633 words)

	Song San Quentin
		San Quentin, I hate every inch of you.
		San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell.
		San Quentin, you've been livin' hell to me.
	maninblack.net /Song_San_Quentin.html (198 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: At San Quentin: Remastered: Music: Johnny Cash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		San Quentin might be more enjoyable to the newer Cash fan thanks to its inclusion of more well known songs like Walk The Line and Ring of Fire.
		On "San Quentin", Johnny Cash careens through a series of ballads, spirituals, rockabilly ravers and hit singles, and the Man in Black takes full advantage of the unusual circumstances.
		Johnny Cash, with his resonant baritone and distinctive sound, was one of the most imposing figures in country music in our lifetime and it is nice to know that when he died this past week that he was appreciated by even the most recent generation of music lovers.
	www.amazon.co.uk /San-Quentin-Remastered-Johnny-Cash/dp/B00004W17B (1448 words)

	San Quentin State Prison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		San Quentin held both male and female inmates until 1934 when the women's prison at Tehachapi was built.
		The character Quentin in Cube is named after San Quentin.
		Lawrence Taylor's character in Blitz: The League, Quentin Sands is named after San Quentin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Quentin_State_Prison (1183 words)

	San Quentin (1946) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Curiously, San Quentin is not really a Big House movie, since most of it takes place outside prison walls.
		San Quentin's warden, eager to generate favorable publicity for his inmates' welfare league (through which prisoners police one another to discourage recidivism), accepts an invitation to a press conference in San Francisco and brings along (he thinks) two of his successes.
		San Quentin marks Raymond Burr's first appearance in film noir, of which he would become such an irreplaceable fixture.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0038905 (479 words)

	Amazon.ca: 1969 At San Quentin: Music: Johnny Cash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		As with Folsom, the San Quentin LP had to be edited due to space limitations.
		San Quentin, I Walk the Line, Folsum Prison Blues, Wanted Man, and The Man Comes Around are my favorites.
		The song "San Quentin" was written from the perspective of an inmate, and is not very complimentary towards the institution.
	www.amazon.ca /1969-San-Quentin-Johnny-Cash/dp/B00004U2GH (1990 words)

	Quentin
		SAN QUENTIN -- The Tri-Valley All Stars used four pitchers and a five-run first inning to coast to an 11-4 win over the San Quentin Giants Wednesday, May 3.
		The Cons changed their team name to the Giants after the San Francisco Giants donated their warmup uniforms to the California prison last year.
		If you would like to face the Giants at San Quentin you must be able to pass a security check of your record and be at the gate by 5 p.m.
	www.fortunecity.com /olympia/heisman/1190/quentin.html (676 words)

	Scott Peterson sent to San Quentin - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com
		SAN QUENTIN, Calif. - Less than a day after being sentenced to execution, Scott Peterson was taken before dawn Thursday to San Quentin State Prison — located overlooking San Francisco Bay, where the corpses of his wife Laci and unborn son were found.
		Peterson, who was sentenced to death Wednesday, left the San Mateo County jail to San Quentin at 3:10 a.m.
		Secured with leg irons and shackles around his wrists and waist and wearing a V-neck orange shirt and pants and wearing toeless sandals, Peterson was led away in a white, unmarked van for drive from Redwood City, south of San Francisco, to the prison, about 20 miles north of the city.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7217582 (709 words)

	San Quentin - Moviefone
		San Quentin (1937) San Quentin on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
		San Quentin Movie - DVD Information on the San Quentin Movie from Bestprices.com is available here.
		San Quentin - Cast & Crew, movie showtimes, plot, synopsis, exclusive features, trailers, clips, theater listings, reviews, message boards, dvd, videos, rentals and more on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /movie/san-quentin/1073260/main (194 words)

	San Quentin, Mexico
		After returning to the main road continue along the 175km/110mi stretch to San Quentin; along this stretch you can visit some old mission stations, such as Santo Tomás, San Vicente and Vicente Guerrero, and Orte La Huerta and San Miguel, which are inhabited by Cochimí Indios.
		The San Quintín farming and fishing village of San Quintín, lying in a fertile valley on the flat bay of the same name has beautiful white beaches.
		In addition to El Rosario, there are further mission stations along the road, including San Fernando, San Agustín and Cataviña, which lies in the midst of impressive, rocky scenery.
	www.planetware.com /mexico/san-quentin-mex-bjc-sq.htm (131 words)

	Let San Quentin be San Rafael's answer to Tiburon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		San Mateo’s TOD Incentive Program uses transportation funds to help communities that build more housing near rail stations.
		It is envisioned that the San Quentin Reuse Planning Committee will continue to meet through the end of 2002 and present their final recommendations to the Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors in March, 2003.
		The three scenarios in the report are not intended to be recommended land use alternatives but rather provide data and background analysis for the site.
	home.comcast.net /~marininfo/SanQuentin.htm (1189 words)

	Santa Clara Magazine - Shakespeare in San Quentin
		Along with Khan, students Katie Fier, Mallory Harper, and Calvin Johnson took the stage with five inmates in San Quentin—for renditions of some of Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets and monologues, and scenes from "The Tempest." Here are comments from the students and snapshots of the performances.
		Being a person who has made poor decisions in my life as a result of peer pressure and self doubt, I was in awe at how these men could completely overcome all the stifling status issues that exist within the San Quentin environment.
		Through these programs, the men are educated, inspired, challenged, and rewarded; they are given the opportunity to be a person (to share, connect, do good, help their peers, and develop healthy relationships).
	www.scu.edu /scm/winter2006/sanquentin.cfm (713 words)

	San Quentin Prison Museum
		Pass within the perimeter of San Quentin, one of the most famous, active prisons in the world without being an inmate or visitor by going to the prison museum just inside the main gate.
		Many visitors are unaware that San Quentin housed women prisoners until 1934.
		Then follow Main Street to the main gate of San Quentin (Post Office is on the right), turn left into the parking lot for visitors.
	www.turnpike.net /~mystery/tmg/san_quentin.html (626 words)

	California's Death Row (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It's not death that brings the media cameras and intense public scrutiny to San Quentin's Death Row, it's only the executions with their time-honored rituals of last meals, last thirteen stops into the gas chamber, that attracts the interest of taxpayers.
		The Adjustment Center is the deepest, darkest hole at San Quentin.
		Following one of the shootings described by Hunter, the warden at San Quentin authorized officers to carry "gas guns" with rubber bullets as an option to standard rifles.
	www.prisonwall.org /cdr.htm (5216 words)

	Amazon.com: At Folsom Prison & San Quentin: Music: Johnny Cash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The original San Quentin album featured two versions of "San Quentin", and there is only one version of it featured here.
		Both the Folsom Prison and San Quentin live recordings from the late 1960s have recently been reissued with a number of extra tracks included for the first time, but this CD contains some of the best tracks from each recording and has long been a favorite of mine.
		From that perspective "At Folsom Prison" and "At San Quentin" are the two quintessential Johnny Cash albums from what ended up being the "early" part of one of the great careers in American music.
	www.amazon.com /At-Folsom-Prison-San-Quentin/dp/B00000254Z (1705 words)

	San Quentin
		On the way to San Quentin, Johnny’s wife, June Carter, asked if he had remembered to bring "Sue" along.
		On the night of February 24, 1969, as Cash and his band prepared to perform for the imamates of San Quentin prison, photographer Jim Marshall saw the two trajectories inter sect and caught it on film.
		The 1969 visit to San Quentin was Cash’s fourth, but he was still moved by the prison chokehold on men’s soul.
	www.stevenmenke.com /AtSanQuentin.htm (606 words)

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