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| Location | San Quentin, California, U.S. |
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| Coordinates | 37°56′20″N 122°29′20″W / 37.939°N 122.489°W |
| Status | Operational |
| Security class | Minimum–maximum |
| Capacity | 3,084 |
| Population | 3,542 (114.9%) (as of January 31, 2023[1]) |
| Opened | July 1852 |
| Managed by | California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
| Warden | Chance Andes |
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 in California. The state's only death row for male inmates, the largest in the United States, was located at the prison.[5][6][7] Its gas chamber has not been used since 1993, and its lethal injection chamber was last used in 2006.[8] The prison has been featured on film, radio drama, video, podcast, and television; is the subject of many books; has hosted concerts; and has housed many notorious inmates.
- ^ "California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: Monthly Report of Population As of Midnight January 31, 2023" (PDF). California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Internal Oversight and Research. January 31, 2023. Retrieved September 21, 2023.
- ^ "Governor Newsom Announces Historic Transformation of San Quentin State Prison". 18 March 2023.
- ^ "2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Marin County, CA" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. p. 39 (PDF p. 40/46). Retrieved 2022-08-13.
San Quentin State Prison
- ^ Bookspan, Shelley (1991). A germ of goodness: the California state prison system, 1851-1944. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-8032-1216-9.
- ^ San Quentin State Prison (SQ) (2009). "Mission Statement". California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Archived from the original on August 6, 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-20.
- ^ Fimrite, Peter (20 November 2005). "Inside death row. At San Quentin, 647 condemned killers wait to die in the most populous execution antechamber in the United States". The San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on 2 July 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-20.
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citpwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Hu, Hattie (August 5, 2017). "Death row inmates sentenced in Sacramento region have waited an average of 21 years". Sacramento Bee. Archived from the original on August 5, 2017.