The fourth floor of the North Block was the prison's first death row facility, but additional death row space opened after executions resumed in the U.S. in 1978. The adjustment center received solid doors, preventing "gunning-down" or attacking persons with bodily waste.

Mar 18, 2024 · 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 move comes five years after...

Mar 27, 2023 · California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently announced the state’s most infamous death row will be shuttered, transforming San Quentin State Prison into a “restorative justice facility” over the next...

Apr 20, 2024 · Inmates sentenced to San Quentin's death row will instead live out their lives in prisons like the California Institution for Men in Chino.

Mar 17, 2024 · 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.

Apr 18, 2024 · More than two dozen condemned inmates from San Quentin's death row have been transferred to the California Institution for Men in Chino, prompting safety concerns from the city's mayor...

May 9, 2024 · Since Feb. 26, the state has transferred 324 inmates with death sentences from San Quentin Rehabilitation Center to other state prisons, which accounts for more than half of the 639 inmates...

Mar 21, 2023 · Death-sen­tenced pris­on­ers in California will be moved out of San Quentin State Prison (pic­tured) and placed in oth­er max­i­mum secu­ri­ty facil­i­ties, as part of a broad plan announced by Governor Gavin Newsom on March 17, 2023.

Mar 17, 2023 · California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to transform San Quentin State Prison, a facility in the San Francisco Bay Area known for maintaining the highest number of prisoners on death row in the country.

Jun 2, 2023 · Whisenhunt described San Quentin State Prison’s death row as a “madhouse.” (Photo courtesy of Michael Whisenhunt) Whisenhunt was the only one of the three with a single victim. Yet the details of his crime were horrific: In 1995, he tortured and killed Kesha Gurke, the 19-month-old daughter of his live-in girlfriend.