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California speeds plans to empty San Quentin’s death row
9 months 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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Newsom wants to transform San Quentin State Prison. The council advising him can meet in secret
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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Appeals court rules lawsuit by family of San Quentin guard who died of COVID-19 can proceed
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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Editorial: Dismantle death row, but don’t stop there
2 years, 10 months ago

Editorial: Dismantle death row, but don’t stop there

LA Times  

The dismantling of California’s death row may well be more symbolic than substantive. Gavin Newsom placed a moratorium on executions but did not commute the sentences of the nearly 700 condemned men awaiting execution at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County or the 21 women at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla. So it’s not enough to dismantle …

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California moves to dismantle nation’s largest death row
2 years, 10 months ago

California moves to dismantle nation’s largest death row

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who three years ago placed a moratorium on executions, now is moving to dismantle the United States’ largest death row by moving all condemned inmates to other prisons within two years. The goal is to turn the section at San Quentin State Prison into a “positive, healing environment.” Newsom said Monday it’s an …

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Op-Ed: We pleaded for social distancing here in San Quentin. The state refused, and now COVID is raging
2 years, 10 months ago

Op-Ed: We pleaded for social distancing here in San Quentin. The state refused, and now COVID is raging

LA Times  

Cells intended to house one person are being used for two, despite evidence of contagion from living in such close quarters. In his ruling in the lawsuit last November, Marin County Superior Court Judge Geoffrey Howard acknowledged that “in double-occupancy cells, one person cannot avoid infection if the cellmate has contracted the virus.” Looking back at the 28 deaths in …

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‘A living hell’: Inside US prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic
3 years, 9 months ago

‘A living hell’: Inside US prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic

Al Jazeera  

Prisoners and their families describe the emotional, physical and financial toll of the pandemic. “It’s a living hell, pretty much,” says one California prisoner, who has been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and went seven months last year without seeing his social worker. “At one point I was quarantined in isolation and I kept asking to see mental health for …

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Report finds over 100 rebellions in jails and prisons over COVID conditions
4 years, 1 month ago

Report finds over 100 rebellions in jails and prisons over COVID conditions

Salon  

U.S jails and prisons, already death traps, have been completely ravaged by COVID-19. Crowded quarters, a lack of PPE, inadequate medical care, an aging population, and unsanitary conditions have contributed to an infection rate 5.5 times higher than the already ballooned average in the U.S. As of this writing, over 252,000 people in jails and prisons have been infected and …

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