Last night there was a program on MSNBC titled " San Quentin State Prison,
MSNBC investigates. It told all about recieving, West Block, the chow hall,
the exericise yards, DR and how the guards on DR have to serve the inmates
on that block in full riot gear. They estimate that 45 out of 80 percent of all
the inmates on DR attack the guards at some point throughout the day.
They showed how they do searches on the tiers too The report was quite
fasinating to say the least. So I was wondering how many of you saw it?
Suzi


One other thing, Jeanne Wolfward was still the Warden at San Quentin.

I think it is the same one I saw. It was called Lockup. They did San Quentin, Folsom and another one back east. They also did LA County Jail just after that. It was several hours of quite interesting footage. I must say, this is a first. Actual media from a prison. Inside the walls. We need more information like that!!

Yes San Diego Mom I saw the Men's Central and Wayside ((Pitchess)) episodes yesterday. I love that channel! Very intresting.

they played that stuff til 5 am here and we watched every single one , i have a question, is statesville aka tamms ?? i seen a dude going to lock and he had on tamms gear m, but it was the statesville joint ???


also san quentin , needs some remodeling , 4 real 4 real , my own daddy was there , and damn i dont think it has changed a bit , breakin bricks ect ??

2 nite court tv had a special also , wolpal , ddu , i think it was old tho !!

I only saw the one for San Quentin. What a dirty disgusting place. I think
the community of Marin County should move everyone from that hell hole
and put them in a newer prison or rebuid it. I saw footage of the upper tiers
and they junk and goo on the walls and windows. Yikes!!! And to think that
San Quentin doesn't have medical issues, the place is a fithly disgusting prison
if you ask me. No wonder they have infections like Staph...The state ought
to spend some quality time hiring an outside contractor to go in and clean
that place up. They also showed this guy washing a t-shirt in a toilet, hmm
Staph Infection can start right there. Now that's disgusting! :mad:

Yep yep yep Homegirl... we had the long version down here in San Diego... and you know Dude was glued to the television. I swear he was scanning for familiar faces!

So true, it's about time the outside world gets a glimpse of the harsh reality of prison... kinda blows away the frilly notion that our men are living it up at the tax payers expense.

So true Spideriixs. People need a wake up call when they don't understand
how the prisons here in CA operate. Just like Death Row inmates that attack
the guards on a daily basis. They don't have nothing to lose anyways. There
on Death Row. They can't be punished any further, so what they do doesn't
matter to the inmates anyways. Most Death Row inmates at San Quentin sit
on DR for almost 20 years and sometimes beyond. It's been quite some time
since they had a execution at San Quentin. The last time they were going to
put someone to death was Kevin Cooper, but he got a stay, well until his DNA
shows that he did murder those people in Southern Ca, or he didn't. That
is still up in the air, I haven't heard anymore on that. Suzi

We need more media coverage on the subject including how our court system is so crooked. Pleas, mandatory sentencing, 3 strikes, you name it. It no longer requires any common sense or actual proof of a crime. Unfortunately, unless someone you know and at least like is caught up in the system, no one seems to give it a second thought. Kind of that NIMBY (not in my back yard) tunnel vision. I admit, until I was involved in the system, I did not know how things truly were. I am learning, finding out more each day. I want the laws changed to allow more media into the prisons and jails. It is time we ended the legal and correctional systems ability to keep all they do secret. People in prison are still PEOPLE and deserve to be treated as such.