Inside San Quentin

Overview

San Quentin State Prison (SQ) is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated town of San Quentin in Marin County. San Quentin opened in July 1852, it is the oldest prison in California. The state's only death row for male inmates, the largest in the United States, is located at the prison. It has a gas chamber, but since 1996, executions at the prison have been carried out by lethal injection, though the prison has not performed an execution since 2006.

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Cast

Popeye Jackson

inmate

Gregory Ulas Powell

inmate

Raymond Procunier

Director Ca. DoC

Robert Ayers

Warden

Hector Frank Heredia

Chaplan

Wayne Smith

inmate

Garlan Barry

inmate

Sam Robinson

Lieutenant