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California adult institution operated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. CDCR code: SQRC.
Background
San Quentin Rehabilitation Center (SQ), formerly known as San Quentin State Prison, is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated place of San Quentin in Marin County.
Established in 1852, and opening in 1854, San Quentin is the oldest prison in California. The state's only death row for male inmates, the largest in the United States, was located at the prison. Its gas chamber has not been used since 1993, and its lethal injection chamber was last used in 2006. The prison has been featured on film, radio drama, video, podcast, and television; is the subject of many books; has hosted concerts; and has housed many notorious inmates.
Phillip Carl Jablonski (January 3, 1946 â December 27, 2019) was an American serial killer and rapist convicted of killing five women in California and Utah between 1978 and 1991.
David Esco Welch (born 1957/1958) is an American mass murderer who shot and killed six people during a home invasion of his girlfriend's house in Oakland, California on December 8, 1986.
Welch was sentenced to death and remains on death row awaiting execution.
Anthony John Sully (January 2, 1944 â September 8, 2023) was an American serial killer and police officer responsible for the murders of six people between February and August 1983 at his warehouse in Burlingame, California.
Phillip Carl Jablonski1946–2019 · serial killer
Thomas Silverstein1952–2019 · criminal
Billy Ray Waldon1952 · Esperantist
David Esco Welch1958 · murderer
Anthony Sully1944–2023 · police officer
Lawrence Bittaker1940–2019 · serial killer
Doug Clark1948–2023 · serial killer