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I’m in the Criminal Justice courses at my college, and one of the teachers said he might take the class on a ‘field trip’ to San Quentin.
Got me to thinking, what are the names of some ‘notable’ inmates that are still living there? I think Scott Peterson is one, and Charles Manson maybe?

List of Notable Prisoners of San Quentin:
Notable inmates

The San Quentin gas chamber originally employed lethal cyanide gas for the purpose of carrying out capital punishment. The chamber has since been converted to an execution chamber where lethal injection is used. Two chairs once sat where the restraining table is now located.Vincent Brothers – convicted and sentenced to death in the shooting and stabbing of 5 members of his family, including 3 children.
Alejandro Avila – convicted of kidnapping and killing 5 year old Samantha Runnion.
William Richard Bradford – convicted of two murders in the 1980s, the Los Angeles Police Department revealed in July 2006 that there is cause to believe he was a serial killer responsible for several murders in the 1970s and 1980s.
Kevin Cooper – convicted and sentenced to death for the hatchet and knife massacre of the Ryen family.
Tiequon Aundray Cox – sentenced to death in 1986 for the 1984 murders of four relatives of the former defensive back, NFL player Kermit Alexander.
Richard Allen Davis – convicted of kidnapping and murdering Polly Klaas.
Scott Erskine – convicted of killing Jonathan Sellers, 10, and Charlie Keever, 13.
Richard Farley – convicted of killing seven of his co-workers and nearly killing another, a female co-worker whom he stalked after she rejected him.
Ryan Hoyt – Associate of Jesse James Hollywood, convicted of the murder of Nicholas Markowitz
Randy Kraft – serial killer who was convicted of 16 murders and suspected of 51 others.
Mikhail Markhasev – convicted of killing Ennis Cosby, son of comedian Bill Cosby.
Jarvis Jay Masters – convicted and sentenced to death for participating in the murder of prison guard Hal Burchfield.
Michael Morales – convicted for the brutal murder of Terri Winchell
Charles Ng – serial killer who tortured and murdered 11 people.
Scott Peterson – convicted murderer of his pregnant wife, Laci and their unborn child, Conner.
Richard Ramirez – serial killer known as "The Night Stalker"; convicted of killing 13 people.
Morris Solomon Jr. – serial killer convicted of murdering 6 prostitutes in Sacramento.
Cary Stayner – convicted murderer who killed 4 women in Yosemite, California.
Marcus Wesson – convicted of killing nine of his family members.
David Westerfield – convicted of kidnapping and killing 7 year old Danielle Van Dam
Brandon Wilson – convicted in the 1998 slashing death of 9 year old Matthew Cecchi.

[edit] Former
Clarence Ray Allen – Convicted for ordering the strangulation of Mary Sue Kitts and the shotgun killing of Bryon Schletewitz and seven others (others were not killed). Executed on January 17, 2006.
Edward Bunker – FBI most wanted fugitive who reformed and became an author and actor. Was sentenced at age 17, the youngest inmate at the time.
Caryl Chessman – Convicted rape offender, was given the death penalty in 1948 and executed in 1960; the last man executed in the United States for a sexual offense that did not result in murder.
Billy Cook – Murderer of Carl Mosser, his wife Thelma, their three small children and motorist Robert Dewey; he died in the gas chamber on December 12, 1952.
Juan Corona – Convicted of killing 25 people and sentenced to life without parole. Transferred to Corcoran State Prison.
Joseph Cosey – convicted of various crimes; known for document forgery from 1913-1940 of historical United States figures.
Henry Cowell – American composer convicted on a "morals" charge in 1936.
Mack Ray Edwards convicted child killer who committed suicide while on death row.
Robert Alton Harris – The first person executed in San Quentin’s gas chamber after the reinstitution of California’s death penalty.
Michael Wayne Hunter – Sentenced to death after the murders of his father and stepmother in 1981. Retried in 2002, sentenced to Life. Transferred to Salinas Valley State Prison.
George Jackson – Member of the Black Panther Party, killed in San Quentin in 1971.
Jang In-hwan – Korean independence activist who assassinated former American diplomat Durham Stevens in 1908[2]
Charles Manson – Leader of the Manson family. Transferred to Corcoran State Prison in 1989. [1]
S. S. Millard – Exploitation filmmaker
Wallace Fard Muhammad – Founder of the Nation of Islam.
Louise Peete – Convicted murderess, executed in the gas chamber on 11 April 1947.
Abe Ruef – San Francisco political boss, for bribery
Sirhan Sirhan – Assassin of Robert F. Kennedy. Has since been transferred to Corcoran State Prison.
Danny Trejo – Actor.
Stanley Tookie Williams – Convicted murderer & early leader of the Crips street gang. Author and cause celebre. Executed by lethal injection on December 13, 2005.

I need to know how many enevelopes and stamps I can send to an inmate in Tehachapi State Prison. Also can I send paper to him? Do I just send it in a manila envelope?

You may send in "Postage embossed envelopes, maximum of forty". or up to forty (40) regular postage stamps, and those should be shipped in a single envelope. (personalized postage stamps will not be accepted)

Sometimes I think that the American Prison system is flawed and that people get a way out by simply being sentenced to a prison paid for by the tax money of people struggling to make it day to day like myself. Can someone give me the typical day of a prison inmate in a maxium security facility. Maybe the answers would change my mind.

P.S. I would love to hear from some convicts who have actually served time.

I have served time in a female prison not a maximum but the typical day was simple get up eat breakfast or pass make up your bed start your day depending on if you had a job or not eat lunch spend time on the yard eat dinner get meds. bed.

some of the C.O’s can be friendly others are strict and have no problem shaking you down not all the inmates are nice and its very noisy and uncomfortable its either to cold or to hot.

I mean like honestly the whole metal file in the cake business would be enough to add some precautions. I mean I’ve heard that they just don’t give the inmate the cake or that they check it by poking holes in it or by running a metal detector over it. You can hide way more dangerous stuff like a pistol or a knife u know?

you dont get to bring it back to your cell

you have to eat it right there at the vistor place

What if an inmate, who was still awaiting trial, was in danger of being killed by other inmates due the knowledge he had? What do you do with the inmate? Would you move them to another facility? Would you move them to a "secure" wing of the existing facility? What happens exactly?

Stick them in solitary or move them to another part of the jail.

Most jails (where suspects are kept pre trial) are segregated by "wings". The "wings" all house a certain amount of inmates. The inmates in a particular wing or pod eat, socialize, and sleep together, and often do not see any of the other inmates.

It is pretty easy to keep them separate.

Can anybody help me search for an inmate in this place? Can i please have a link to where i can do an inmate search in this location? I am not sure if he’s dead or arrested. He told us he was gonna cross the border, but it has been weeks and we have not heard a thing from him. We think he is arrested, if that’s not the case then he was killed on the way :”( Please help.

um what?

i had an interview with the department of corrections about a month ago, i had to have my number changed since then and i dont know how to update my contact information, anyone know?

call the Human resource office of the place that you was interviewed from

I’ve read numbers ranging from $20,000 to almost $50,000 per year per inmate.

Can anyone provide a reference or any more information on this subject?

I don’t have a reference handy but I have heard the $50k/year figure before. It needs to be driven downward to about $5k/year. And they people in jails and prisons should have to pay their own way for anything beyond subsistence.

What percent of prison inmates’ have genius iqs (160+) ? Is there even a stat on that?

I doubt anyone has or will take the time and effort to give inmates an IQ test, so you will not find any statistics.

I heard that in the state of RI that a bill was passed for inmates to get 90 days more good time. Is this true? How can I find out?

I hope so.