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	San Quentin State Prison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		San Quentin State Prison is located on 432 acres (1.7 km²) on Point Quentin in Marin County, California, United States, north of San Francisco.
		San Quentin State Prison was opened in July 1852, and is the oldest prison in California.
		San Quentin held both male and female inmates until 1933 when the women's prison at Tehachapi was built.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Quentin_State_Prison (912 words)

	USATODAY.com - San Quentin sought for land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		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 (1108 words)

	San Quentin State Prison (SQ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The state's only gas chamber and death row for all male condemned inmates are located at San Quentin.
		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.
	www.corr.ca.gov /visitors/fac_prison_sq.html (288 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 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)

	San Quentin State Prison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		San Quentin State Prison is located on 432 acres (1.7 km²) on Point Quentin in Marin County, California, north of San Francisco.
		Johnny Cash famously performed a concert for the inmates live at San Quentin.
		Paul Rodriguez has performed numerous comedy concerts at San Quentin.
	library.ci.glendale.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/San_Quentin_Prison (359 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State -- San Quentin prison should be closed, politicians say
		SAN QUENTIN – Maligning San Quentin State Prison as "an expensive mistake," two state politicians this week urged officials to shutter the aging facility to save cash-strapped California millions of dollars.
		The California Department of Corrections is scheduled to break ground on a new death row this fall on 40 acres west of the existing prison on the San Francisco Bay in scenic Marin County.
		Scott Peterson, convicted of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, and the fetus she carried, is in San Quentin's intake unit awaiting his transfer to death row.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/state/20050521-1058-ca-californiaprisons.html (488 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Scott Peterson to await death at San Quentin State Prison, which overlooks ...
		SAN FRANCISCO – Scott Peterson has become the 644th prisoner awaiting death in the execution chamber of San Quentin State Prison, the infamous lockup that overlooks the same bay where the body of his pregnant wife, Laci, was discarded.
		Most of the state's condemned prisoners are housed at San Quentin; 15 condemned women are at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla.
		San Quentin also houses 5,300 other prisoners, but they don't interact with the condemned inmates.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20050317-0439-lacipeterson-sanquentin.html (663 words)

	SAN QUENTIN / 42 injured in fight at San Quentin between white, Latino inmates / 3 are hospitalized with severe ...
		SAN QUENTIN / 42 injured in fight at San Quentin between white, Latino inmates / 3 are hospitalized with severe injuries -- guards use pepper spray to break up melee
		None of the injuries were life threatening, but prison officials said one of the three inmates hospitalized suffered a severe head injury.
		It appears some Latino prisoners took issue with a tattoo or marking that one of the white prisoners had, indicating he was allied with Latino gangs in Southern California.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/09/BAGHEE53AP1.DTL (659 words)

	[PRISONACT] San Quentin State Prison is under lockdown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2001/01/27/roundup.dtl 1/27/01 San Quentin State Prison is under lockdown following a race riot that broke out between whites and fls in the dining hall.
		Prison spokesman Vernell Crittendon said it will take several days for officials to interview all the witnesses and figure out exactly who was responsible for Thursday's incident, which caused nine injuries, including two stab wounds caused by prison-made weapons.
		About two dozen prison guards responded to an alarm and subdued the inmates with pepper spray and physical force, according to Crittendon.
	prisonactivist.org /pipermail/prisonact-list/2001-January/003484.html (326 words)

	San Quentin warden fired over health spat - Boston.com - Nation - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The warden at San Quentin State Prison was removed Thursday after the prison system's inspector general found that she discouraged her medical staff from cooperating with attorneys in an inmate health care lawsuit.
		SACRAMENTO, Calif. --The warden at San Quentin State Prison was removed Thursday after the prison system's inspector general found that she discouraged her medical staff from cooperating with attorneys in an inmate health care lawsuit.
		Jack Stokes, San Quentin's acting chief deputy warden since April, was named acting warden in her place.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2005/07/07/san_quentin_warden_fired_over_health_spat?mode=PF (337 words)

	Denham Amends Legislation To Close San Quentin By 2010
		STATE CAPITOL-State Senator Jeff Denham (R-Merced) amended intent language into Senate Bill 901 today that would lead to the closure and replacement of San Quentin State Prison.
		The proceeds from the sale of the prison site are exempted from Proposition 60a (if approved by voters) and direct those funds to be used for the building of a new death row facility.
		The San Quentin site not be used for industrial purposes and encourage the sale of the land for commercial and/or housing development.
	republican.sen.ca.gov /news/12/pressrelease3350.asp (241 words)

	SACRAMENTO / Bill would close San Quentin State Prison
		Denham proposes closing the prison by 2010 and selling the property, which many in Marin County see as a great place to build housing, create commercial development and a ferry-train terminal.
		What to do with San Quentin, which is the state's oldest prison, has been a hot topic both in Marin County and Sacramento for several years.
		The Legislature last weighed in on the issue in 2003, when it gave the state's Department of Corrections the OK to spend $220 million redoing Death Row, which is dramatically overcrowded.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/22/BAG1NCD87E1.DTL (329 words)

	Baseball - Southern Pacific Railroad Players visit the San Quentin Prison
		As was the Central Pacific, which consolidated with the Southern Pacific in 1884, San Quentin was also a “pioneer” institution in Golden State.
		California established its prison system in 1851, just one year after achieving statehood, in response to increased criminal activity brought on by the sudden influx of men seeking their fortune in the gold fields.
		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)

	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 becomes the 644th prisoner awaiting death in the execution chamber at San Quentin State Prison.
		Prison officials had Peterson remove his clothing and a bulletproof vest supplied by the sheriff for his safety, San Quentin spokesman Lt. Vernell Crittendon said on NBC’s “Today” show.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7217582 (701 words)

	Renovation Plan for San Quentin Opposed (washingtonpost.com)
		SAN QUENTIN, Calif. -- This quiet peninsula features the kind of perks that inhabitants of the space-starved Bay Area would kill for.
		San Quentin was California's first prison and remains one of the oldest still in operation in the United States.
		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 (856 words)

	cbs5.com - State Executes Allen At San Quentin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		(AP) SAN QUENTIN Four months after he was revived from a nearly fatal heart attack and returned to death row at San Quentin State Prison, California's oldest condemned inmate needed an extra dose of a lethal chemical to end his life early Tuesday.
		Allen was serving a life term at Folsom State Prison when he gave a recently paroled convict a list of seven witnesses who had helped put him behind bars for the 1974 murder of Mary Sue Kitts, his son's teenage girlfriend who helped him burglarize a Fresno grocery store.
		His was California's 13th execution since state lawmakers restored capital punishment in 1977 and the third in the last 12 months.
	cbs5.com /topstories/local_story_017031415.html (786 words)

	News Desk of the New Criminologist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		San Quentin State Prison (SQ) is now well past its sell-by-date, suggested Republican Senator Jeff Denham earlier this month, saying that the 432-acre facility was too costly and dangerous to keep operating, and now a warrant for its execution is being prepared.
		Rather than build a new prison, a viable proposal to disperse the non-death row inmates to other facilities in the state is falling flat because they are all bursting at the seams.
		San Quentin has to be sold, and with serious crime on the increase in California the state has to build another prison to replace it.
	www.newcriminologist.co.uk /news.asp?id=-1500581655 (1121 words)

	Scott Peterson enters San Quentin prison after receiving death penalty - Courttv.com - Trials
		Peterson was transferred under heavy security from the San Mateo County jail to San Quentin, arriving around 4 a.m.
		The infamous prison, which overlooks the bay where Laci's body was discarded and houses the men's death row, is about 20 miles north of San Francisco.
		Prison officials removed his clothing and a bulletproof vest provided for his safety, and he then underwent a medical exam and body search, San Quentin spokesman Vernon Crittendon said on NBC's "Today" show.
	www.courttv.com /trials/peterson/031705_ap.html (792 words)

	California Death Row Prisoner Pen Pal Requests - Page 1
		San Quentin, CA My name is Reynaldo Ayala, I am 39 years of age and of Hispanic heritage.
		San Quentin, CA was born in L.A, California.
		San Quentin, CA Live from the land of the dead - I'm a young 36 year old, who was taught and raised in the ways of the "old school", respect, honesty, class and dignity, who has landed his 5 feet 8 inch butt on Death Row.
	www.ccadp.org /CA1.htm (5174 words)

	California Death Row Prisoner Pen Pal Requests - Page 4
		Cause I'm an inmate, at San Quentin State Prison.
		San Quentin CA Hello, my name is Gregory Tate, I'm seeking true friends, to correspond with, I'm interested in hearing from people all over the world.
		I am on death row at San Quentin Prison and have been using my time to develop my desire to be a writer and currently have several novels that I am pursuing to get published so that I can leave behind a legacy, my name in published print.
	ccadp.org /CA4.htm (2639 words)

	California Death Row Prisoner Pen Pal Requests - Page 2
		San Quentin CA I'm a single male, 38 years of age with light brown hair and baby blue eyes.
		San Quentin CA I'm hoping you'll be able to assist me in finding a "pen pal" who is willing to gain and maintain a corresponding relationship.
		San Quentin, CA I have been on the Row for 17 years now and have no idea how much longer my appeals will take so I thought I might try and connect with some pen pals.
	www.ccadp.org /CA2.htm (3580 words)

	Centerforce, Health Programs Division - Collaborative Programs in Prison HIV Prevention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The success of these programs can be attributed to the commitment of all those involved: prison administrators, correctional officers, educators and counselors, university researchers, community-based service providers, the inmates themselves and family members.
		San Quentin provides a prerelease program for men scheduled to leave the prison, but this intervention is not primarily focused on HIV prevention.
		We have developed and evaluated a peer-led HIV prevention intervention for women visiting their partners incarcerated at San Quentin.
	www.caps.ucsf.edu /projects/mapindex.html (954 words)

	San Quentin Prison Riot
		SAN QUENTIN — At least 23 inmates and two staff members at San Quentin State Prison were injured during a prison riot in a crowded dining hall, prison officials said Friday.
		Inmates identified as being involved in the riot were removed from the general population as authorities continued to investigate what caused the fight, Messick said.
		The prison’s Badger Section housing block, a reception unit for new inmates where the riot took place, remained locked down Friday and the unit’s 456 inmates were confined to their cells, Messick said.
	www.sacunion.com /pages/california/articles/7468 (273 words)

	Execution Day (San Quentin State Prison) : SF Bay Area Indymedia
		Prison officials stroll the tiers, peering into the cells at us, as if they're seeing some rare and disgusting animals on the verge of extinction.
		A phalanx of prison guards standing in full combat gear will be stationed in front of the prison gate forming a prophylactic shield, like serfs protecting the fortress of their feudal lord from invasion.
		The attorneys for the condemned man will be scurrying around throughout the day, both in front of cameras and behind the scenes, making last ditch efforts to save the life of their client.
	www.indybay.org /news/2005/12/1789669.php (816 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		DECISION This case is before the State Personnel Board (SPB or Board) for determination after the Board granted the Petition for Rehearing filed by the appellant Rita Nelson (appellant or Nelson) after the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) had sustained her dismissal from the position of Correctional Officer at San Quentin State Prison.
		In order to evaluate the propriety of the discipline imposed for the December 20, 1989 incident that is the subject of this adverse action, that incident must be viewed in the context of prior similar incidents.
		State Personnel Board (Skelly) (1975) 15 Cal.3d 194, the California Supreme Court noted: While the administrative body has a broad discretion in respect to the imposition of a penalty or discipline, it does not have absolute and unlimited power.
	www.spb.ca.gov /docs/preced/Nelson.doc (2104 words)

	Marin Literacy Program
		In prison, opportunities to develop new tools to turn life around are rare, and the challenges to take advantage of those opportunities are immense.
		The San Quentin State Prison Project was made possible by the SLRC Mini Grant.
		It was the willingness of SLRC to believe that prisoners have a right to improve themselves and improve their lives upon their return to society and their families that offered.
	literacynet.org /slrc/minigrant/marin.html (912 words)

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