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Mirror on Marin - Holiday Edition
... the Marin County Board of Education to the Marin Shakespeare Festival. She currently serves as an adviser to the San Quentin News and is on the board of directors of Marin Shakespeare Company, Bridge Rail Foundation and the Golden Gate Tall Ship. ... Comment?
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New statewide tsunami inundation map shows Marin in the strike zone
... Marin, particularly Stinson and Seadrift , the Sausalito waterfront and Richardson Bay frontage communities and San Quentin/Corte Madera/Larkspur . (Photo of sign courtesy of Wikipedia) Comment?
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New statewide map shows San Quentin, Sausalito and West Marin in potential tsunami inundation zone
... Marin, particularly Stinson and Seadrift , the Sausalito waterfront and Richardson Bay frontage communities and San Quentin/Corte Madera/Larkspur . (Photo of sign courtesy of Wikipedia) Here's a YouTube video of the aftermath of the Crescent City ... Comment?
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Cassidy: Baking cookies, making a difference
... people in jail," says Garcia, now on parole after serving seven months in county jail and nearly seven more at San Quentin. "In there, it's lonely." With unemployment in California stubbornly high, much has been made (and rightfully so) about the ... Comment?
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Three calls from Copenhagen for Obama to champion climate justice
... crimes. For example, he wants to spend hundreds of millions building a new and more "modern" death row at San Quentin than on necessary environmental cleanup and green jobs. Certainly, it is not my intention to continue the one-sided exchange, which ... Comment?
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S.F.'s de Young Museum: Quirky inside and out
... and Co., sit between 19th-century oils. Next to a set of Hudson River School paintings, a 2001 oil of a foggy San Quentin prison owes a debt to those earlier works. The de Young's ground floor features both its oldest and newest works: a collection ... Comment?
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Encouraging words from a prisoner
... I didn't seek sound advice from responsible peers or concerned adults, I am spending four and a half years in San Quentin Prison. Seeking sound advice does not show weakness; it shows strength. The tough guys are not in here with me -- just the ... Comment?
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Editorial: Huffman's dogged battle to derail a flawed death row
OUR GOVERNOR is determined to build an expensive new death row complex at San Quentin State Prison - even though California is facing years of historic budget deficits. 7 comments
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Great views, odd angles, eclectic exhibits
... and Co., sit between 19th-century oils. Next to a set of Hudson River School paintings, a 2001 oil of a foggy San Quentin prison owes a debt to those earlier works. The de Young's ground floor features both its oldest and newest works: a collection ... Comment?
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Excess, deprivation mark state prisons
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... safety have given power and wealth to the state's law enforcement community. For 20 years, the gymnasium at San Quentin has served as overflow housing for the residents of California's most notorious prison. Beneath rimless backboards, more than 300 ... Comment?
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Excess, deprivation mark California state prisons
Click here to read Part One For 20 years, the gymnasium at San Quentin has served as overflow housing for the residents of California's most notorious prison. Comment?
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Excess, deprivation mark California state prisons
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... and wealth to the state's law enforcement community. Click here to read Part One For 20 years, the gymnasium at San Quentin has served as overflow housing for the residents of California's most notorious prison. A San Quentin prisoner whittles the ... Comment?
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Muni stabbing suspect has extensive criminal past
... a firearm. Brown was released early. He was arrested six more times until 2001 when he was finally sentenced to San Quentin for three years. He was released on parole the next year. He continued getting arrested, but with no new prison time. "I ... Comment?
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Ask Sacto911: Killer-torturer of 11 on state's death row
Q: What happened to Charles Ng? - dulcefreak, Stockton A: Ng has been on California's death row at San Quentin since June 30, 1999, the day he was sentenced in an Orange County courtroom to die for 11 Calaveras County murders. Comment?
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Sell, don't rebuild, San Quentin
State Treasurer Bill Lockyer has pulled back on issuing $590 million in bonds to pay for the reconstruction of San Quentin's crumbling death row. 5 comments
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EDITORIAL: Sell San Quentin for $2b -- don't rebuild it : t turns out the land underneath San Quentin is very unstable San Francisco Bay mud, hardly surprising for the bay-side prison... Novato woman and daughter jailed after traffic stop gets complicated: A routine traffic stop landed a Novato woman and her daughter in jail Tuesday after the ... Comment?
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EDITORIAL: Sell San Quentin for $2b -- don't rebuild it
State Treasurer Bill Lockyer has pulled back on issuing $590 million in bonds to pay for the reconstruction of San Quentin's crumbling death row. Comment?
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SubUrban Legend - Marin or Marine?
... (Marin's "sub-chief" Quentin battled another division of the Spanish army at the point that now bears his name--San Quentin.) Ah, but then there are those who espouse the theory that Marin derives its name from Bahia de Nuestra Senora Del Rosario la ... Comment?
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State cuts could mean and end to classroom rehab at San Quentin
Chris Wittek, a teacher at the Robert E. Burton Adult School at San Quentin State Prison, passes school materials to one of his students through a crack between the cell door and door frame. 32 comments
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North Coast Pathways: Are you ready?
... memorial service, including the ashes interment, near Petaluma. Early the next morning, I spent three hours on San Quentin's Death Row with my spiritual directee, a recent convert to Catholicism, who will be 36 years old on Christmas Day. And then I ... Comment?
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