Inside San Quentin, a new approach to rehabilitation and training

Inside San Quentin, a new approach to rehabilitation and training

I’ve been to a fair number of jails in my life, mostly as a reporter, but before today, I’d never been to San Quentin. I knew its reputation: The notorious facility held the state’s death row and execution chamber, and was known for overcrowding and violence (by both residents and guards). It was a place that represented everything that was wrong with the criminal justice system: Mass incarceration, particularly of Black men, long sentences with…