While the govt wants to sell the picturesque San Quentin jail, inmates don't want to go
While the govt wants to sell the picturesque San Quentin jail, inmates don't want to go
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Lovely: San Quentin prison has 5,300 inmates. |
Governor Arnold Schwarzen-egger has proposed selling the 432-acre prison and other state-owned properties to ease the state's budget deficit.
But inside San Quentin, talk of a sale is seen as a threat to the prison programmes. "Some places you go for punishment.
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Here, it's more rehabilitation. I don't know why the governor would want to shut us down," said inmate John Taylor.
Previous efforts to close the prison and sell its land have all been stalled.
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