As San Quentin’s Death Row empties, condemned prisoners get a glimpse of hope
There’s an utterly new feeling at San Quentin’s Death Row these days, and it’s not just for the people running the place. You can feel it like electricity all up and down the grim, time-worn cell ...
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San Quentin begins prison reform - but not for those on death row
California is transferring everyone on death row at San Quentin prison to other places, as it tries to reinvent the state's most notorious facility as a rehabilitation centre. Many in this group ...
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Running to freedom and rehabilitation
We come full circle on a story we first covered in 2016 when we visited the exercise yard at San Quentin State prison in California. It houses the highest number of death row inmates in America ...
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California death penalty: Governor Gavin Newsom halts executions
The order issued on Wednesday afternoon described the death penalty as "inconsistent ... protocol and close down the state's execution chamber at San Quentin prison. US President Donald Trump ...