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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.
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"
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]
The Soledad Brothers were three inmates charged with the murder of a prison guard, John Vincent Mills, at California's Soledad Prison on January 16, 1970. [1] George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo, and John Clutchette were alleged to have murdered Mills in retaliation for the shooting deaths of three black prisoners during a prison fight in the exercise yard three days prior by another guard, Opie G ...
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 .
California hasn't executed any prisoners since 2006, and Gov. Newsom has ordered San Quentin's death row dismantled. California is closing San Quentin's death row. This is its gruesome history
[6] The states of Florida and Texas had fewer death row inmates in 2008 (397 and 451 respectively) than San Quentin. [18] The death row at San Quentin was divided into three sections: the quiet "North-Segregation" or "North-Seg", built in 1934, for prisoners who "don't cause trouble"; the "East Block", a "crumbling, leaky maze of a place built ...
On January 17, 1970, four days after the shootings, [5] prison guard John Vincent Mills (aged 26), was beaten, dragged up three flights of stairs and tossed to his death. A note found beside his body read "One down, two to go." [6] Three black inmates were charged with this murder and were transferred to San Quentin to await trial.