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4 days ago · In 1972, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down capital punishment, reducing all pending death sentences to life imprisonment at the time. Join u...
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- Humans of San Quentin
2 days ago · June 11, 1980. Imprisoned at. San Quentin State Prison. William George Bonin (January 8, 1947 – February 23, 1996), also called the Freeway Killer [2] and the Freeway Strangler, [3] was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured, and murdered young men and boys between November 1968 and June 1980 in southern California.
2 days ago · Much of Annie’s 1890 storyline takes place inside the cells of San Quentin State Prison. ... Inside San Quentin and out, the women in Jaeger’s novel save each other when they can and rely on ...
3 days ago · Dorsey Nunn, a formerly incarcerated individual, co-director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC) and co-founder of All of Us or None (AOUON), a grassroots movement of formerly incarcerated people working to secure their civil and human rights, explains to host Robert Scheer how his prison experience is rare but demonstrates that it is possible to make it out of San Quentin’s ...
2 days ago · In addition, Haggard recorded two chart-topping duets with George Jones —"Yesterdays' Wine" in 1982—and with Willie Nelson —"Pancho and Lefty" in 1983. Nelson believed the 1983 Academy Award -winning film Tender Mercies, about the life of fictional singer Mac Sledge, was based on the life of Merle Haggard.
4 days ago · Life on Death Row. San Quentin’s death row currently houses over 300 prisoners. Inmates live in small cells measuring four feet by ten feet, spending most of their time in confinement. They are allowed out of their cells for only 20 hours a week, during which they must undergo strip searches, be handcuffed, and are constantly monitored by ...
