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By the time of the trial for the uprising at San Quentin, Pinell was serving a life sentence for rape, and for three other violent offenses committed while in prison. [24] Pinell was reported by a San Quentin spokesman to have been subdued by guards on March 26, 1975, after he stabbed his defense attorney, Lynn Carman, during a conference at ...
A prison riot is an act of concerted defiance or disorder by a group of prisoners against the prison administrators, prison officers, or other groups of prisoners.. Academic studies of prison riots emphasize a connection between prison conditions (such as prison overcrowding) and riots, [1] [2] [3] or discuss the dynamics of the modern prison riot.
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. Established in 1852, and opening in 1854, [4] San Quentin is the oldest prison ...
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 ...
A plan for reforming San Quentin — and incarceration in California — was released Friday. It's the most significant criminal justice reform in a generation. Column: Tinkering with Prop. 47 won ...
California hasn't executed any prisoners since 2006, and Gov. Newsom has ordered San Quentin's death row dismantled. ... and prison guards dragged and carried him to the gas chamber, blood ...
August 11: Watts riots also known as the Watts Uprising, August 11-16 1965 [11] August 12: Hugo Pinell (b. March 10, 1945 – d. August 12, 2015), of the San Quentin Six who were involved in the attempted prison break to liberate George Jackson in 1971, is killed in a high-security state prison in 2015
A condemned inmate is led to his cell in San Quentin's Death Row. California is shutting down death row and transferring 471 condemned people out of the prison and into the general population at ...