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San Quentin (Spanish: San Quintín, meaning "St. Quentin") is a small unincorporated community in Marin County, California, United States. [1] It is located west of Point San Quentin, [ 2 ] at an elevation of 30 feet (9.1 meters).
San Quentin Rehabilitation Center (SQ), formerly known as San Quentin State Prison, [2] is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated [3] place of San Quentin in Marin County.
This page is a list of notable inmates currently serving time at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center (formerly San Quentin State Prison). As of July 2023, there are nearly 4000 convicts located at the institution. [1]
Mount Tamalpais College, formerly known as the Prison University Project, is a two year liberal arts college that offers an associate's degree program in Liberal Arts and intensive college preparatory courses in math and writing to mainline residents of San Quentin Rehabilitation Center.
Scott Thomas Erskine (December 22, 1962 – July 3, 2020) [1] was an American serial killer on California's death row, convicted in 2003 for the 1993 murder of two California boys. He was incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison. In 2020, Erskine became one of a dozen California death row inmates to die in the span of less than two months as ...
San Quentin State Prison of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is in the county. San Quentin houses the male death row and the execution chamber of California. [50] The Marin County Sheriff's Office serves as the county's main law enforcement agency. [51]
Masters, who is of African American heritage, [3] was originally sent to San Quentin State Prison in 1981 for armed robbery. In 1990, Masters was convicted of fashioning a weapon that was used by another inmate in the 1985 murder of a prison guard at San Quentin, and sentenced to death. [4]
His father was a guard at San Quentin, he was raised on the prison grounds, and his wife's father was also a San Quentin guard. [1] The 1954 film Duffy of San Quentin tells his story as a warden. [citation needed] [2] His accomplishments during his tenure as warden include: [1] [3] Elimination of corporal punishment; Improvement of food services