Search San Quentin State Prison (SQ) Records Online
Jail Name:
San Quentin State Prison (SQ)
Jail Type:
State Prison
State:
California
County:
MARIN
City:
San Quentin
Source:
Wikipedia
Description:
San Quentin State Prison is California’s oldest and best known correctional institution, which was established on the site currently known as Point San Quentin, in July of 1852, as an answer to the rampant lawlessness in California at the time. During its construction, inmates slept on the prison ship, the Waban, at night and labored to build the new prison during the day. San Quentin housed both male and female inmates until 1933 when the women’s prison at Tehachapi was built. The prison rests overlooking the bay on 432 acres, and is located just 12 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge in the county of Marin. The walled prison is made up of four (4) large cell blocks (West, South, North, and East Block), one (1) maximum security cell block (the Adjustment Center), Central Health Care Service Building, a medium security dorm setting and a minimum security firehouse. The state’s only gas chamber and death row for all male condemned inmates are located at San Quentin. This facility provides both outpatient and inpatient mental health services for patients with a serious mental disorder. The licensed Psychiatric Inpatient Program at this facility is designed to provide more intensive treatment for patients who cannot function adequately or stabilize in an outpatient program
Opened:
July 1852, 167 years ago
Security Class:
Minimum–maximum
Address:
San Quentin State Prison
Zip Code:
94964
Location:
San Quentin, California
Phone 1:
415-454-1460
Imate Gender:
Male Offenders
Population:
3774
Capacity:
3082
Judicial District:
Quentin, CA
Inmate Mail 1:
Inmate's Name and CDCR number San Quentin State Prison San Quentin, CA 94974
Money:
http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Visitors/Sending_money_to_inmates.html
Notable Inmates:
Lawrence Bittaker - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Bittaker Vincent Brothers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Brothers Albert Greenwood Brown - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Greenwood_Brown
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