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

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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

Gavin Newsom’s huge achievement: Closing death row. But does it play in 2024?

LA Times

Gavin Newsom has been one of the most progressive governors on criminal justice reform, but he doesn’t really want to hype that right now. But corrections officer Andrei Akinshin, who has guarded the giant black doors at the entrance of death row for more than a decade, told me he’s loved every minute of it. Klaas told me that he …

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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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1 year ago

Seeking redemption: A death row inmate’s journey into L.A. County’s largest psych ward

LA Times

The yelling surprised no one. “I don’t think anyone could have foreseen how successful their work would be,” said Joan Hubbell, who manages the mental health programs throughout the jails for the Department of Health Services. Another pounded on the door, calling, “Hey, hey.” At a recent ceremony at Twin Towers honoring the mental health assistants, Craigen Armstrong met with …

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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, 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, 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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1 year, 9 months ago

California will remake San Quentin prison, emphasizing rehab

LA Times

Incarcerated men visit with Gov. 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 …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Newsom wants to transform San Quentin using a Scandinavian model

LA Times

Luis went to prison on a life sentence 16 years ago, at age 17. So he had never cooked or done dishes before moving to the “Little Scandinavia” unit in the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution at Chester last year — an experiment modeled after Northern European systems of incarceration, where the goal is less about punishment and more about turning …

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2 years, 3 months ago

San Quentin inmates find community through tennis

Associated Press

INSIDE SAN QUENTIN STATE PRISON, Calif. — Stefan Schneider needed a nickname, or a handle as they call it in prison. “It gives us a piece of community to get out of the mode of prison drudgery,” said Earl Wilson, San Quentin’s tennis team captain who has been incarcerated since 1985 — about 37 of his 60 years. When he’s …

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2 years, 8 months ago

California inmates study at 1st college based behind bars

Associated Press

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. — Behind a fortress wall and razor wire and a few feet away from California’s death row, students at one of the country’s most unique colleges discuss the 9/11 attacks and issues of morality, identity and nationalism. They are students at Mount Tamalpais College at San Quentin State Prison, the first accredited junior college in the country …

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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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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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2 years, 10 months ago

California moves to dismantle US’s largest death row

Al Jazeera

The goal is to turn a section of San Quentin State Prison into a ‘positive, healing environment’, California officials say. California Governor Gavin Newsom, who three years ago placed a moratorium on executions in the US state, is now moving to dismantle the United States’ largest death row by moving condemned inmates to other prisons within two years. “We are …

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3 years, 2 months ago

California judge tentatively rejects cutting inmate crowding

Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Northern California judge tentatively ruled Friday that state prison officials acted with deliberate indifference when they caused a deadly coronavirus outbreak at one of the world’s most famous prisons last year. Prison officials “ignored virtually every safety measure in doing so,” Marin County Superior Court Judge Geoffrey Howard wrote in a 114-page tentative ruling Friday. “It …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Prison guard’s COVID death resulted from transfer of infected inmates, family alleges

LA Times

The family of a San Quentin prison guard who died of COVID-19 claim in a recently filed lawsuit that his death, along with 28 others, resulted from the botched transfer of infected inmates from a Southern California prison in May 2020. Gilbert Polanco, a 55-year-old father of two, died less than three months after a bus, dubbed “the beast” by …

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3 years, 10 months ago

San Quentin prison is fined $421,880 over deadly COVID-19 conditions; 28 inmates and an officer died

LA Times

By the end of August, 2,237 inmates and 277 staff members had been infected at San Quentin, according to a California Inspector General’s report. The Cal-OSHA report, issued Thursday, comes on the heels of a scathing State Inspector General’s report that found health officials with the corrections department ignored warnings of front-line health workers and pressured them to hastily transfer …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Family of San Quentin inmate who contracted COVID-19 files wrongful death claim

LA Times

The family of a San Quentin inmate who contracted the coronavirus has filed the first death claim against the California correctional system related to the pandemic, citing the botched transfer of infected prisoners as the cause of his death. Daniel Ruiz, 61, is one of 27 inmates and employees who died of virus-related illnesses after San Quentin, California’s oldest prison, …

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4 years, 4 months ago

Amid COVID-19, California releases some inmates doing time for murder. Advocates push to free more

LA Times

Activists call for prisoner release at a news conference by Gov. In a statement, corrections officials said that the 6,500 inmates identified as medically high-risk for COVID-19 were only “eligible for consideration” for release and would be evaluated “based upon public safety and public health considerations.” “We take these decisions very seriously and continue to work with our law enforcement, …

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

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

Gavin Newsom’s huge achievement: Closing death row. But does it play in 2024?

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

Seeking redemption: A death row inmate’s journey into L.A. County’s largest psych ward

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

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

California will remake San Quentin prison, emphasizing rehab

California will remake San Quentin prison, emphasizing rehab

California will remake San Quentin prison, emphasizing rehab

Newsom wants to transform San Quentin using a Scandinavian model

San Quentin inmates find community through tennis

California inmates study at 1st college based behind bars

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

California moves to dismantle nation’s largest death row

California moves to dismantle US’s largest death row

California judge tentatively rejects cutting inmate crowding

Prison guard’s COVID death resulted from transfer of infected inmates, family alleges

San Quentin prison is fined $421,880 over deadly COVID-19 conditions; 28 inmates and an officer died

Family of San Quentin inmate who contracted COVID-19 files wrongful death claim

Amid COVID-19, California releases some inmates doing time for murder. Advocates push to free more