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Current facility

The correctional complex sits on Point San Quentin, which comprises 432 acres (1.75 km2) of desirable waterfront real estate overlooking the north side of San Francisco Bay. The prison complex itself occupies 275 acres (1.11 km2) of land, whose value a 2001 study estimated at between $129 million and $664 million.[9] The prison complex has its own ZIP Code for mail sent to inmates, 94974;[10] the ZIP Code of the adjacent community of Point San Quentin Village is 94964.[11] It is bordered by San Francisco Bay to the south and west and by Interstate 580 to the north and east, near the northern terminus of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. As of December 2008, the prison had a design capacity of 3,082 but a total institution population of 5,256, for an occupancy rate of 170.5 percent.[12] It has Level I ("Open dormitories without a secure perimeter") housing; Level II ("Open dormitories with secure perimeter fences and armed coverage") housing; a Reception Center (RC) which "provides short term housing to process, classify and evaluate incoming inmates"; and a Condemned unit.[1][13] As of Fiscal Year 2006/2007, the prison had 1,718 staff and an annual budget of $210 million. It is one of the largest prisons in the United States with a population of 5,222 inmates as at Dec. 2008[1]

Death row

Men condemned to death (with some exceptions) must be held at San Quentin, while condemned women are held at Central California Women's Facility.[14] As of December 2008, San Quentin held 637 male inmates in its Condemned unit, or "death row."[21] As of 2001, San Quentin's death row was described as "the largest in the Western Hemisphere"[22]; as of 2005, it was called "the most populous execution antechamber in the United States."[2] The states of Florida and Texas had fewer death row inmates in 2008 (397 and 373 respectively) than San Quentin.[23] The death row at San Quentin is divided into three sections: the quiet "North-Segregation" or "North-Seg," built in 1934, for prisoners who "don't cause trouble"; the "East Block," a "crumbling, leaky maze of a place built in 1927"; and the "Adjustment Center" for the "worst of the worst."[2] Although $395 million was allocated in the 2008-2009 state budget for new death row facilities at San Quentin, in December 2008 two legislators introduced bills to eliminate the funding.[21]

Description

San Quentin State Prison is a California State Prison located near the city of San Rafael, California. Opened in July 1852, it is the oldest prison in the state. California's only death row for male inmates, the largest in the United States, is located at the prison.[1][2] It has a gas chamber, but since 1996, executions at the prison have been carried out by lethal injection. Other names for the institution include San Quentin[3], California State Prison at San Quentin (as established in the California Penal Code)[4], San Quentin Prison[5], San Q[6], SQ (its official acronym)[1], The Q[5][7], and Q[8]. The prison is well-known because of its current and former inmates; because it has been featured on film, video, and television; because famous concerts have been held there; and because it is the subject of many books.

Executions

According to the California Penal Code, all executions in California must occur at San Quentin.[14] In April 2007, staff of the California Legislative Analyst's Office discovered that a new execution chamber was being built at San Quentin; legislators subsequently "accuse[d] the governor of hiding the project from the Legislature and the public."[16] The old lethal injection facility had included an injection room of 43 square feet and a single viewing area; the facility that was being built included an injection chamber of 230 square feet and three viewing areas for family, victim, and press.[17] Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped construction of the facility the next week.[18] The Legislature later approved $180,000 to finish the project[19], and the facility was completed.[20]

Further reading

* Duffy, Clinton T., and Dean Southern Jennings. The San Quentin story. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1950. * Lamott, Kenneth Church. Chronicles of San Quentin; the biography of a prison. New York: D. McKay Co., 1961. * Leibert, Julius A., and Emily Kingsbery. Behind bars; what a chaplain saw in Alcatraz, Folsom, and San Quentin. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965. * Bonner, John C. Hang tough: San Quentin. Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1968. * Davidson, R. Theodore. Chicano prisoners; the key to San Quentin. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. ISBN 003091616X. * Braly, Malcolm. False starts: a memoir of San Quentin and other prisons. Boston: Little, Brown, 1976. ISBN 0316106143. * Owen, Barbara A. The reproduction of social control: a study of prison workers at San Quentin. New York: Praeger, 1988. ISBN 0275928187. * Nichols, Nancy Ann, James Delahunty, and Alan Hammond Nichols. San Quentin inside the walls. San Quentin, CA: San Quentin Museum Press, 1991. ISBN 0963011529. * Liberatore, Paul. The road to hell: the true story of George Jackson, Stephen Bingham, and the San Quentin Massacre. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996. ISBN 0871136473. * Tannenbaum, Judith. Disguised as a poem: my years teaching poetry at San Quentin. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000. ISBN 1555534538. * Burke, Dennis. Doing time: finding hope at San Quentin. New York: Paulist Press, 2008. ISBN 9780809145270.

History

Although numerous towns and localities in the area (and in California generally) are named for Roman Catholic saints, and "San Quintín" is Spanish for "Saint Quentin", the prison is not in fact named after the saint. The land on which it is situated, Point Quentin, is named after a Coast Miwok warrior named Quentín, fighting under Chief Marin, who was taken prisoner at that place.[35][36] In 1851, California's first prison opened; it was "a 268-ton wooden ship named The Waban, anchored in San Francisco Bay and outfitted to hold 30 inmates."[37][38] Subsequently, inmates who were housed on the Waban constructed San Quentin which "opened in 1852 with 68 inmates."[39] A dungeon built at San Quentin in 1854 is thought to be California's oldest surviving public work.[40] The prison held both male and female inmates until 1932 when the original California Institution for Women prison at Tehachapi was built. In 1941 the first prison meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous took place at San Quentin; in commemoration of this, the 25-millionth copy of the A.A. "Big Book" was presented to Jill Brown, of San Quentin, at the International Convention of Alcoholics Anonymous in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The use of torture as "an approved method of interrogation" at San Quentin was banned in 1944.[39] Alfredo Santos, one-time convicted heroin dealer and successful artist, painted six remarkable, 20-foot (6.1 m) sepia toned murals during his 1953-1955 incarceration that have hung in the dining hall of the prison.[41][42] Lawrence Singleton, who raped a teenaged girl and cut off her forearms, spent a year on parole in a trailer on the grounds of San Quentin between 1987 and 1988 because towns in California would not accept him as a parolee.[43] Between 1992 and 1997, a "boot camp" was held at the prison that was intended to "rehabilitat[e] first-time, nonviolent offenders"; the program was discontinued because it did not reduce recidivism or save money.[44] A 2005 court-ordered report found that the prison was "old, antiquated, dirty, poorly staffed, poorly maintained with inadequate medical space and equipment and overcrowded."[45] Later that year, the warden was fired for "threaten[ing] disciplinary action against a doctor who spoke with attorneys about problems with health care delivery at the prison."[46] By 2007, a new trauma center had opened at the prison and a new $175 million medical complex was planned.[47]

Notable current inmates

* Alejandro Avila - rapist & murderer of five-year-old Samantha Runnion. Sentenced to death in 2005.[48] * Lawrence Bittaker - serial killer convicted of torturing and murdering 5 young women. Sentenced to death in 1981.[48] * Vincent Brothers - convicted and sentenced to death in the shooting and stabbing of 5 members of his family, including 3 children. Sentenced to death in 2007.[48] * David Carpenter - the "Trailside Killer."[2] Sentenced to death in 1984 and 1988.[48] * Kevin Cooper - convicted for the hatchet and knife massacre of the Ryen family. Sentenced to death in 1985.[48] * Tiequon Aundray Cox - sentenced to death in 1986 for the 1984 murders of four relatives of the former defensive back NFL player Kermit Alexander.[49] He was involved in an escape attempt in 2000.[50] * Richard Allen Davis - convicted of kidnapping and murdering Polly Klaas.[2] Sentenced to death in 1996.[48] * Scott Erskine - convicted of killing Jonathan Sellers, 10, and Charlie Keever, 13. Sentenced to death in 2004.[48] * Richard Farley - convicted of killing seven of his co-workers and nearly killing another, a female co-worker whom he stalked after she rejected him. Sentenced to death in 1992.[48] * Ryan Hoyt - associate of Jesse James Hollywood, convicted of the murder of Nicholas Markowitz. Sentenced to death in 2003.[48] * Randy Kraft - serial killer who was convicted of 16 murders and suspected of 51 others. Sentenced to death in 1989.[48] * Jarvis Jay Masters - convicted and sentenced to death for participating in the murder of prison guard Hal Burchfield. Sentenced to death in 1990.[48] * Michael Morales - convicted for the brutal murder of Terri Winchell. Sentenced to death in 1983.[48] * Charles Ng - serial killer who tortured and murdered 11 people. Sentenced to death in 1999.[48] * Scott Peterson - convicted murderer of his pregnant wife, Laci and their unborn child, Conner. Sentenced to death in 2005.[48] * Richard Ramirez - serial killer known as "The Night Stalker"[2]; convicted of killing 13 people. Sentenced to death in 1989.[51] * David Anthony Silva - convicted on multiple counts of home invasion robberies involving torture etc.; in 2007, sentenced to "512 years, plus 11 consecutive life terms"[52]; interviewed in a 2008 British documentary about the prison; incorrectly called "David Silver" in some newsmedia accounts.[53][54] * Morris Solomon Jr. - serial killer convicted of murdering 6 prostitutes in Sacramento. Sentenced to death in 1992.[48] * Cary Stayner - convicted murderer who killed 4 women in Yosemite. Sentenced to death in 2002.[48] * William Suff - serial killer convicted of murdering 12 prostitutes in Riverside County. Sentenced to death in 1995.[48] * Marcus Wesson - convicted of killing nine of his family members. Sentenced to death in 2005.[48] * David Westerfield - convicted of kidnapping and killing 7 year old Danielle Van Dam. Sentenced to death in 2003.[48] * Brandon Wilson - convicted in the 1998 slashing death of 9 year old Matthew Cecchi. Sentenced to death in 1999.[48]

Notable inmates who were executed at San Quentin

* Burton Abbott - convicted of the rape and murder of a teenage girl; executed in the gas chamber on March 15, 1957.[55] * Clarence Ray Allen - convicted for ordering the killing of three people. At age 76, was the oldest person ever executed in California (by lethal injection on January 17, 2006).[56] * Stephen Wayne Anderson - convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection on January 29, 2002.[57] * Manny Babbitt - convicted murderer who died by lethal injection on May 4, 1999.[58] * Donald Beardslee - convicted of two murders, executed by lethal injection on January 19, 2005.[59] * William Bonin - convicted of 14 murders, the "Freeway Killer" (one of three men to have the same nickname) became the first person in California history to be executed by lethal injection on February 23, 1996.[60] * Caryl Chessman - convicted rapist, was given the death penalty in 1948 and executed on May 2, 1960.[61] The last man executed in California for a sexual offense that did not result in murder. * Billy Cook - murderer of Carl Mosser, his wife Thelma, their three small children and motorist Robert Dewey. He died in the gas chamber on December 12, 1952.[62] * Theodore Durrant - convicted of murdering two women in San Francisco. Executed by hanging on January 7, 1898.[63] * Harvey Glatman - convicted of raping and strangling two women, he died in the gas chamber on September 18, 1959.[64] * Barbara Graham - convicted murderess, executed in the gas chamber on June 3, 1955.[65] Subject of the film I Want to Live! starring Susan Hayward. * Robert Alton Harris - convicted of murdering two boys, died in the gas chamber on April 21, 1992.[66] * Edward Hickman - convicted of kidnapping, mutilating, and murdering 12-year-old Marion Parker, died by hanging on October 19, 1928.[67] * Raymond Lisenba (Rattlesnake James) - convicted of killing his wife, he was the last man to be executed by hanging in California (on May 1, 1942).[68] * David Mason - convicted of murdering five people, he was executed in the gas chamber on August 24, 1993.[69] * Gordon Stewart Northcott - convicted of killing three boys in the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders, was hanged on October 2, 1930.[70] * Louise Peete - convicted murderess, executed in the gas chamber on April 11, 1947.[71] * Sam Shockley and Miran Edgar Thompson - convicted of killing a guard in the 1946 Battle of Alcatraz escape attempt, executed together in the gas chamber on December 3, 1948.[72] * Stanley Tookie Williams - convicted murderer & early leader of the Crips street gang. Author (e.g., he wrote a children's book about his experience at San Quentin[73]) and cause celebre. Executed by lethal injection on December 13, 2005.[74]

Other notable former inmates

* Charles Bolles - alias Black Bart, an American Old West outlaw.[39] * William Richard Bradford - convicted of two murders in the 1980s, the Los Angeles Police Department revealed in July 2006 that there is cause to believe he was a serial killer responsible for several murders in the 1970s and 1980s. He died of natural causes while awaiting execution on March 10, 2008. * Edward Bunker - FBI most wanted fugitive who reformed and became an author (e.g., he wrote a novel set in San Quentin[75]) and actor. Was sentenced at age 17, the youngest inmate at the time. * Richard Chase - "vampire killer," sentenced to death in 1979 for murdering six people, committed suicide in 1980.[76] * Eldridge Cleaver - member of the Black Panther Party, was an inmate between 1958 and 1963.[77] * Juan Corona - convicted of killing 25 people and sentenced to life without parole. He is currently at Corcoran State Prison. * Joseph Cosey - convicted of various crimes; known for document forgery from 1913-1940 from historical United States figures. * Henry Cowell - American composer convicted on a "morals" charge in 1936. * Mack Ray Edwards - convicted child killer who committed suicide while on death row. * Leo Gordon - American character actor (TV and film) and screenplay writer. Sentenced to 4 years for armed robbery. Later part of a movie cast which filmed scenes inside San Quentin. * Merle Haggard - noted country singer, sentenced to 15 years time (he served 3 years) starting at age 19 for grand theft auto and armed robbery. * Michael Wayne Hunter - sentenced to death after the murders of his father and stepmother in 1981. Retried in 2002, sentenced to Life. Transferred to Salinas Valley State Prison. * George Jackson - member of the Black Panther Party, killed in San Quentin in 1971. * Jang In-hwan - Korean independence activist who assassinated former American diplomat Durham Stevens in 1908.[78] * Charles Manson - leader of the Manson family. Transferred to Corcoran State Prison in 1989.[79] * S. S. Millard - exploitation filmmaker. * Jim Mitchell, prominent in the strip club and pornography businesses in San Francisco, spent 1994-1997 in San Quentin for murdering his brother Artie.[80] * James Mitose - Japanese American martial artist who brought the art of Kenpo to the United States starting in the late 1930s. * Wallace Fard Muhammad - founder of the Nation of Islam. * Hans Reiser - developer of the ReiserFS filesystem and convicted murderer of his wife. Sentenced to 15 years to life in 2008.[81] He is currently at Mule Creek State Prison.[82] * Abe Ruef - San Francisco political boss, for bribery. * Sirhan Sirhan - assassin of Robert F. Kennedy. Was sent to death row at San Quentin in May 1969.[83] After the California Supreme Court struck down the death penalty as cruel and unusual punishment, Sirhan was transferred to Correctional Training Facility.[84] He is currently at Corcoran State Prison. * Danny Trejo - actor. * Art Pepper - jazz alto saxophone player; served two sentences at San Quentin in the 1960s.

Programs

* The San Quentin Drama Workshop began at the prison in 1958 after a performance of Waiting for Godot the previous year.[24] * The San Quentin SQUIRES ("San Quentin Utilization of Inmate Resources, Experiences, and Studies") program, which began in 1964, is reported to be the "oldest juvenile awareness program in the United States."[25][26] It involves inmates at the prison interacting with troubled youths for the purpose of deterring them from crime, and was the subject of a 1978 documentary film Squires of San Quentin.[26][27] In 1983, a randomized controlled study was published that found that the program produced no overall reduction in delinquency.[26] The program was still functional as of 2008.[28] * Since the 1920s, San Quentin inmates have been allowed to play baseball.[29] Starting in 1994, however, inmates have played against players from outside the prison.[30] The games occur twice a week through the summer.[31] The team of prisoners is called the "Giants" in honor of the San Francisco Giants, who donated uniforms to the team, and the team of outside players is called the "Willing".[31] The umpires and fans are inmates[31], but the coaches on the field are volunteers.[29] Although some people question the appropriateness of baseball games being held at the prison, officials believe "organized sports is a way to keep inmates occupied and perhaps teach a few lessons on getting along with others."[29] These games were detailed in a Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel episode on June 20, 2006.[30] * San Quentin has the only on-site college degree-granting program in California's entire prison system, which began in 1996 and which is currently run by the Prison University Project.[32][33] * The California Reentry Program at San Quentin, begun in 2003, "helps inmates re-enter society after they serve their sentences."[34]

San Quentin in media

* In the 1915 book The Star Rover by Jack London, the protagonist is an inmate at San Quentin.[85] * Underaged girls have sometimes been referred to as "San Quentin Quail", on the assumption that violators of California's minor protection laws could end up there. In the 1940 Marx Brothers film Go West, Groucho Marx plays a character named "S. Quentin Quale". There was also a 1946 Warner Brothers cartoon featuring a quail named and titled Quentin Quail. * Two films were made with the title of San Quentin. The first, made in 1937, was directed by Lloyd Bacon. It starred Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, and Ann Sheridan. It was filmed at the prison.[86] The second, made in 1946, starred Lawrence Tierney.[87] * Men of San Quentin, a 1942 film, was directed by William Beaudine.[88][89] * Humphrey Bogart played a character in the 1947 film Dark Passage who escapes from San Quentin.[90] * The 1954 film Duffy of San Quentin tells the story of Clinton Duffy who was warden of San Quentin between 1940 and 1952.[91][92][93] * House of Numbers, a 1957 film noir, depicts two brothers (both played by Jack Palance) in a plot to break out of San Quentin.[94] One of Alfredo Santos' murals is shown during the scenes in the cafeteria. * 1958's I Want To Live! depicted the story of Barbara Graham, who was executed in San Quentin's gas chamber. It was directed by Robert Wise and starred Susan Hayward.[95] * In 1968, the prison scenes in Woody Allen's film Take the Money and Run were shot in San Quentin.[96] * The television series Dragnet often mentioned San Quentin at the end of episodes.[citation needed] * On February 24, 1969, music legend Johnny Cash played a live concert for the prison inmates. The concert was released as an album At San Quentin and as a television documentary Johnny Cash in San Quentin (filmed by Granada Television).[97] During the concert, the song "San Quentin", about an inmate's loathing of his incarceration, received such an enthusiastic response that it was immediately encored.[98] * In the 1972 film Cool Breeze, the main character (played by Thalmus Rasulala) is released from San Quentin.[99][100] * B. B. King recorded Live at San Quentin in the prison in 1990; it won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album in 1991.[101] * In 1993, a movie titled Blood In Blood Out, which was based on Mexican / prison gang warfare in Southern California, was filmed in parts at the prison. * In 1995, Paul Rodriguez performed live in San Quentin, sponsored by HBO.[102] * In 2003, heavy metal band Metallica filmed the video for the song St. Anger inside San Quentin, playing to some inmates who were enthusiastic and others who were not.[103][104] * MythBusters visited San Quentin in a January 2006 episode to conduct research about a paper crossbow.[105][106] * In November 2006 the hip-hop group Flipsyde had a concert in the prison, which was not open for the public.[107] * In May 2007, Michael Franti and Spearhead played a show for "more than 1,000 men" at the prison.[108] * The character played by Stephen Dorff in Felon, a 2008 film also starring Val Kilmer, is incarcerated in San Quentin.[109][110] * In 2008 the film Changeling starring Angelina Jolie was based on the story of a mother and her missing son Walter Collins[111]; Louise Northcott (mother of Gordon Stewart Northcott, who was executed at San Quentin in 1930), confessed to the murder of Walter Collins and was imprisoned in San Quentin in 1929.[112]