San Quentin prison to undergo rehabilitation-focused transformation.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced a plan to transform San Quentin State Prison, which has housed the largest death row population in the US, into a rehabilitation center for less-dangerous prisoners. The facility will focus on education, training, and rehabilitation to break cycles of crime. The move follows Newsom's 2019 moratorium on executions and dismantling of the prison's gas chamber. The plan is part of a decades-long transformation of California's prison system, which went under federal receivership in 2005 after a court determined prison medical care was so lacking it amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.