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...murder and one of conspiracy for aiding an alleged 1971 prison-breakout attempt by black Radical George Jackson in which the prisoner, two trusties and three guards were killed; in San Rafael, Calif. Bingham turned himself in, and denied smuggling a gun to Jackson, who had been in San Quentin awaiting trial for murder. Bingham said he had fled because he was convinced that he could not get a fair trial...
...California state prison at San Quentin is a grim and foreboding symbol of the American way of punishment. The vast maximum-security prison is so old (parts of it date back to 1852) that it is a maze of outdated plumbing, frayed wiring and inadequate sanitation. It is so huge, and so many dangerous criminals are crowded into its antiquated facilities, that it is difficult for the guards to protect inmates from one another. As a result, hundreds of prisoners have been killed and wounded in a decade of violence. State prison officials have long wanted to tear San Quentin...
...Quentin and Attica are but two examples of the nation's dangerously overcrowded prisons. Across the nation, institutions are glutted with inmates who continue to pour into cell blocks at an unprecedented rate. The state and federal prison population, currently 432,000, has doubled in the past ten years and sets a record every time new federal figures are published. In just the past two years, the population has increased by more than 80,000 inmates, even though the national crime rate is in decline...
...courts are stepping in: individual prisons or entire prison systems in 39 states, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia are either under court order to improve conditions or are the subject of litigation. In August, for example, a California judge ruled that conditions at San Quentin constituted cruel and unusual punishment. She ordered improvements in plumbing and electrical and sanitary facilities and an end to double celling. The department of corrections has responded with a proposal to transfer 350 inmates and spend $1 million on repairs...
They put Bill Miner in San Quentin for robbing stagecoaches. By the time he was released, some 30 years later, Wells Fargo had sold its horses and invested in railroads, and the movies had been invented in order to fill idle minds with devilish ideas. Watching The Great Train Robbery in 1903, the old gent perceives a profitable way to enliven his sunset years. All he needs is horses, a few accomplices and, of course, some trains to stick...