California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a plan Friday to transform the iconic San Quentin State Prison and its notorious Death Row from a place of punishment toward more of a rehabilitation and re-entry facility.
Built in 1852, it is the oldest prison in California, and at one point held the largest active death row in the United States. Now, San Quentin will be reimagined - and even renamed - as part of a rehabilitation effort that has never been tried on the scale in this country.
"No one who's been in this media center has come back to jail, has come back to prison, has been re-arrested," Jones said."Hasn't gotten a ticket for that matter, right? So this place is all about rehabilitation." "They provide the necessary skills that we need to reintegrate back into society," Richardson said of the educational and job training programs.
The governor rejected any direct comparison to the so-called Scandinavian prison model. He talked about a California model that will borrow some of those ideas, but be more tailored to the state's needs.
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