Talk:San Quentin State Prison

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[edit] Prison named for an inmate?

I've removed the following absurd section:

Note about the name San and Santa are the Spanish words for Saint, San being the male form, and Santa the female. However Quentin was not a saint; he was actually a prisoner who served time for murder in the prison during its history. The reason for this naming is that many places in the locality already had the name San or Santa, for example San Rafael, San Francisco, San Anselmo, Santa Rosa and San Jose to name a few. When naming the prison after the infamous Quentin, the authorities decided to keep the local "san tradition" and named it San Quentin.

If anyone provides a source for this I'll happily apologize for the deletion. -EDM 06:57, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

The previous version was inaccurate, but I got a source here. RMoloney (talk) 13:02, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] San Quentin Riot?

This page [Stanford_prison_experiment] refers to a riot taking place here, which was particularly significant. This page on the experiment goes into detail:

Our study was terminated on August 20, 1971. The next day, there was an alleged escape attempt at San Quentin. Prisoners in the Maximum Adjustment Center were released from their cells by Soledad brother George Jackson, who had smuggled a gun into the prison. Several guards and some informant prisoners were tortured and murdered during the attempt, but the escape was prevented after the leader was allegedly gunned down while trying to scale the 30-foot high prison walls.

Shouldn't this be mentioned on the page about the prison?

• I'm not sure, but here[1] is some detail. It was apparently called "The Day of the Gun" riot. Chriskelvie 22:03, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Updating recent news story?

I read a story in the paper this morning about a notable inmate given the death sentence, but was not executed on time as doctors refused to participate in what they thought was an cruel and unusual punishment. If anyone wants to update this, feel free. I lost the article, unfortuneatly, but it was in today's Oregonian. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.21.170.126 (talk • contribs) 03:51, 17 May 2006 (UTC).

The article have to say something abuot the film "blood in, blood out" that halv of it was filmed in the San Quentin State Prison. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.130.66.1 (talk • contribs) 04:54, 9 July 2006 (UTC).