"California's New Vision for San Quentin: From Prison to Rehabilitation Center"
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced plans to transform San Quentin prison into a rehabilitation center, with a focus on restorative justice and preparing inmates for reentry into society. The facility will be renamed the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center and the more than 500 inmates serving death sentences there will be moved elsewhere. The plan is part of a decades-long transformation of the state’s sprawling 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. Newsom is allocating $20 million to launch the plan and hopes to complete it by 2025.
