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The San Quentin Six were six inmates at San Quentin State Prison in the U.S. state of California who were charged with actions related to an August 21, 1971, escape attempt that resulted in six deaths and at least two people seriously wounded.
San Quentin Six: six inmates who participated in a riot during an escape attempt in 1971 that resulted in the deaths of six people. Fleeta Drumgo was shot dead after he was released in 1979 and Hugo Pinell was stabbed to death during a riot in 2015 after spending 45 years in solitary confinement.
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]
California prison officials announced they will move the last 457 condemned prisoners out of San Quentin's death row by summer. They will be transferred to other state prisons and housed in the ...
On August 21, 1971, George Jackson led an escape attempt from San Quentin Prison, where the Soledad Brothers had been transferred. During the early hours of the day, Jackson told Drumgo: [5] "Saturday, August 21, 1971. This is a day the motherfuckers will remember: the day we got the gun in"
Its 737 residents, all still technically under sentence of death, are slowly being moved away from the condemned cells at San Quentin, a place where California has, by three successive methods ...
A view of death row at California's San Quentin prison in March. Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer with time.
W.L. Nolen (December 13, 1943 – January 13, 1970) [1] was an American convict who co-founded the Black Guerrilla Family in San Quentin State Prison in 1966 along with George Jackson. [2] Nolen is considered the mentor of Jackson and is often credited with introducing Jackson to radical left-wing politics .