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Newsom pardons 19 people, including co-founder of San Quentin podcast ‘Ear Hustle’

LA Times

In this Dec. 19, 2018, photo, Earlonne Woods gestures while speaking during an interview in Oakland, Calif. Gavin Newsom granted pardons for 19 people, including award-winning San Quentin podcaster Earlonne Woods. “Ear Hustle,” the popular and critically-acclaimed podcast that Woods co-founded from inside San Quentin State Prison in 2017, was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2020. The grantees …

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: Human judgment is imperfect. That’s why the death penalty is wrong

LA Times

The death chamber at the then-new lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif., in 2010. He said he never met the parties, neither the accused nor the family of the victim, but rather he only reviewed the documentation of the cases and trials. He said that in death penalty cases, most were not crimes of …

3 months, 2 weeks ago

California death row inmate who received Oprah support loses effort to overturn conviction

LA Times

Oprah Winfrey holds up “That Bird Has My Wings,” the autobiography of California death row inmate Jarvis Jay Masters. “We knew this battle for Jarvis’ exoneration from death row would not be easy, but we remain confident in the strength of our evidence and legal arguments,” attorney Michael F. Williams said. “I’m very upset with the system.” Masters had spent …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

The last sentence: How I became pen pals with an inmate on death row

The Independent

The first letter he sent was three pages long and penned in elegantly looped handwriting. Death row in California's San Quentin prison Show all 8 1 / 8 Death row in California's San Quentin prison Death row in California's San Quentin prison A condemned inmate exercises in a cage out in the yard of San Quentin prison Getty Death row …

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5 months ago

Can chess games and toilet paper change prison culture? Inside San Quentin’s big experiment

LA Times

To someone living outside these dank walls, the changes might seem small. “It’s not nearly finished, but some of the most significant innovations in the corrections system in California were occurring and have been occurring at San Quentin for a long time,” said Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, a longtime Newsom ally and lead advisor of a 21-person council charged with …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court denies California’s appeal for immunity for COVID-19 deaths at San Quentin prison

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied an appeal from California corrections officials who sought immunity from lawsuits claiming they acted with deliberate indifference when they caused a deadly COVID-19 outbreak at one of the world’s most famous prisons four years ago. The lawsuit stemmed from the botched transfer of infected inmates in May 2020 from a …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court denies California’s plea for immunity for COVID-19 deaths at San Quentin

LA Times

Gilbert Polanco, a guard at San Quentin for more than two decades, contracted COVID-19 on the job and died in 2020. The Supreme Court on Monday turned down an appeal from California prison officials who sought immunity from lawsuits for having transferred inmates with COVID-19 to San Quentin in May 2020, setting off an outbreak that killed 26 prisoners and …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Death row inmates are being transferred out of San Quentin. Chino city officials are sounding the alarm

LA Times

A condemned inmate is led to his cell in San Quentin’s Death Row. City and law enforcement officials in San Bernardino County say they are outraged after dozens of death row inmates were transferred from San Quentin State Prison to Chino. “The transfer of death row inmates to CIM creates tangible public safety concerns for local residents,” said San Bernardino …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

San Quentin State Prison: Running provides a new lease of life for inmates

CNN

CNN — In San Quentin State Prison and decades through a lengthy sentence, Rahsaan Thomas wasn’t at the peak of his physical fitness, nor was he expecting that to change much. Sentenced to 55 to life in 2003 after fatally shooting one person and injuring another during a drug deal, Thomas joined the prison’s long distance running 1000 Mile Club …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Newsom has approved three California prison closures but resists pressure to shutter more

LA Times

The California Correctional Center in Susanville, shown in 2021, was one of three prisons Gov. Shortly after taking office, Newsom placed a moratorium on the death penalty and has approved the closure of three prisons since 2019, but his administration appears to be pulling back from a 2022 budget proposal that considered “right-sizing California’s prison system” by possibly closing even …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Days before Easter, Newsom announces dozens of pardons and commutations

LA Times

From left, Earlonne Woods, “Ear Hustle” co-founder and Bay Area artist Nigel Poor, and Rahsaan Thomas pose in an undated photo. Gavin Newsom on Friday moved to commute sentences for 18 people, issue pardons for 37 others and submit a pardon application for an award-winning San Quentin podcaster, Earlonne Woods. “I believe Earlonne will continue to educate, enlighten and enrich …

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9 months, 1 week ago

California speeds plans to empty San Quentin’s death row

LA Times

Prisoners on San Quentin’s death row will be transferred out by summer, as California moves to overhaul its oldest prison to emphasize training and rehabilitation. California is accelerating its efforts to empty San Quentin’s death row with plans to transfer the last 457 condemned men to other state prisons by summer. The condemned prisoners on San Quentin’s legendary death row …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

San Quentin project’s $360 million price tag should be slashed, governor’s advisory group says

Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An advisory council hand-picked by California Gov. Gavin Newsom recommended Friday that the governor slash by at least a third the cost of a $360 million project to remake the San Quentin State Prison, and use the saved money to improve living conditions at the facility. The 21-member advisory council, headed by Newsom political ally and Sacramento …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

Column: Tinkering with Prop. 47 won’t lower crime. Fixing San Quentin will

LA Times

In 2020, after the tragic murder of George Floyd, there was a moment when it seemed as if America, California included, was ready to reform our broken and discriminatory criminal justice system. But what is about to happen inside San Quentin State Prison has the potential to fundamentally change crime and punishment in the Golden State, and beyond. Gavin Newsom …

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11 months, 4 weeks ago

In L.A., a new vision of incarceration proves rehabilitation works

LA Times

What does something different look like when your whole life, this is all you’ve known? Corrections Officer Gonzales, left, who did not give his first name, goes over the orientation during the intake process with newly arrived Anthony Montez, 54, left, and Juan Hernandez, 28, right, at Amistad de Los Angeles, a prison reentry facility. Newsom announced that San Quentin …

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1 year, 1 month ago

San Quentin needs more guards if it wants reform

LA Times

Inside Halden Fengsel, a high-security prison in Norway, inmates choose their own clothing. But what surprised California corrections officer Steve “Bull” Durham most on a recent visit to Halden wasn’t the prisoners but the guards — how relaxed and happy his Norwegian counterparts were, and how casually they interacted with the inmates. Durham knows there will be many California officers …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Newsom wants to transform San Quentin State Prison. The council advising him can meet in secret

Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s planned transformation of San Quentin State Prison into a rehabilitation facility after decades as the home for death row inmates is being shaped by a hand-picked advisory council that is allowed to meet in secret. “If there’s no public accessibility to the San Quentin advisory council meetings, that’s a really significant concern that …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Appeals court rules lawsuit by family of San Quentin guard who died of COVID-19 can proceed

LA Times

A federal appeals court on Monday rejected California’s bid to toss out a lawsuit filed by the family of a corrections officer who died three years ago from COVID-19 after state officials ordered the transfer of infected inmates into his prison from another facility. His family sued in federal court the following year, accusing the California Department of Corrections and …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Newsom’s plan to transform San Quentin prison lacks details but is moving ahead

LA Times

Gavin Newsom has sweeping plans to transform San Quentin State Prison into a place where prisoners can be rehabilitated and receive job training before returning to society. Tucked in the back corner of San Quentin State Prison’s sprawling campus here sits a dilapidated warehouse, a humdrum building that’s fallen into disrepair since the days it was used as an office …

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1 year, 5 months ago

This mom wants San Quentin prison to help daughter's killer

LA Times

So is its counterpart, remorse. “It really hurts me that I don’t have not one recording of her singing,” Harrison said, ache as thick as syrup weighing down her words. “And then I made a decision that I couldn’t get Ciara back,” Harrison told me. “And so to turn this tragedy around, I wanted not only to heal forward and …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Takeaways from the California budget deal between Newsom and Democratic lawmakers

LA Times

Gavin Newsom and California lawmakers agreed to a $310.8-billion budget deal that will include an expansion of Medi-Cal coverage and transforming parts of San Quentin State Prison into a rehabilitation center. The 2023-24 budget deal, which lawmakers will vote on in a series of bills this week, ends weeks of infighting among Democrats that began after the governor introduced a …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Editorial: L.A. County’s mishandling of Care First model is a cautionary tale for Gov. Newsom

LA Times

Living quarters at rebuilt Campus Kilpatrick in Malibu, pictured in 2017 shortly before the rebuilt juvenile probation camp’s opening. Care First, as the term is used in Los Angeles County government, refers to a reorientation of the county’s vast array of programs away from jail. Most people who leave L.A. County’s jails, juvenile halls and probation camps will be back …

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1 year, 9 months ago

California will remake San Quentin prison, emphasizing rehab

Associated Press

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. — Visiting San Quentin, California’s oldest prison once home to a gas chamber used to execute inmates on the nation’s largest death row, Gov. If San Quentin can do it, it can be done anywhere else.” Despite Newsom’s ambitious tone, he offered few concrete details on what the new system would look like and who it would …

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1 year, 9 months ago

California will remake San Quentin prison, emphasizing rehab

Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The infamous state prison on San Francisco Bay that has been home to the largest death row population in the United States will be transformed into a lockup where less-dangerous prisoners will receive education, training and rehabilitation, California officials announced Thursday. The inmates serving death sentences at San Quentin State Prison will be moved elsewhere in the …

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Newsom pardons 19 people, including co-founder of San Quentin podcast ‘Ear Hustle’

Letters to the Editor: Human judgment is imperfect. That’s why the death penalty is wrong

California death row inmate who received Oprah support loses effort to overturn conviction

The last sentence: How I became pen pals with an inmate on death row

Can chess games and toilet paper change prison culture? Inside San Quentin’s big experiment

Supreme Court denies California’s appeal for immunity for COVID-19 deaths at San Quentin prison

Supreme Court denies California’s plea for immunity for COVID-19 deaths at San Quentin

Death row inmates are being transferred out of San Quentin. Chino city officials are sounding the alarm

San Quentin State Prison: Running provides a new lease of life for inmates

Newsom has approved three California prison closures but resists pressure to shutter more

Days before Easter, Newsom announces dozens of pardons and commutations

California speeds plans to empty San Quentin’s death row

San Quentin project’s $360 million price tag should be slashed, governor’s advisory group says

Column: Tinkering with Prop. 47 won’t lower crime. Fixing San Quentin will

In L.A., a new vision of incarceration proves rehabilitation works

San Quentin needs more guards if it wants reform

Newsom wants to transform San Quentin State Prison. The council advising him can meet in secret

Appeals court rules lawsuit by family of San Quentin guard who died of COVID-19 can proceed

Newsom’s plan to transform San Quentin prison lacks details but is moving ahead

This mom wants San Quentin prison to help daughter's killer

Takeaways from the California budget deal between Newsom and Democratic lawmakers

Editorial: L.A. County’s mishandling of Care First model is a cautionary tale for Gov. Newsom

California will remake San Quentin prison, emphasizing rehab

California will remake San Quentin prison, emphasizing rehab