San Quentin Rehabilitation Center

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.

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World Prisons. (2026). San Quentin Rehabilitation Center. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/san-quentin

"San Quentin Rehabilitation Center." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/san-quentin.

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  title = {San Quentin Rehabilitation Center},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/san-quentin},
  urldate = {2026-10-20}
}