US EditionGov. Newsom Unveils Inmate Learning Center at San Quentin
The $239 million center offers education, workforce training, and reentry services to support successful release for 95% of incarcerated individuals, officials said.
- On Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a new learning center at San Quentin intended to provide reentry and rehabilitation services for incarcerated people.
- Built over 18 months, the 81,000 square-foot San Quentin Learning Center completes the first series of updates, with construction started in 2024 expected to finish next month.
- The center comprises three interconnected buildings that house a technology and media center, an education hub/library, and a community and workforce space with a café, recording studios, reading spaces, and indoor and outdoor classrooms with San Francisco Bay views.
- Pointing to reentry statistics, he added, `It was about dealing with the fundamental fact that 95% of people in this system are going to go back into your neighborhoods and what kind of neighbors do you want them to be?`, and supporters called it a smart investment.
- The buildings mark a repurposing of the 174-year-old San Quentin, building on Newsom's 2019 death-penalty suspension and 2022 dismantling order, with additional construction underway.
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Los Angeles, U.S.A., Feb. 20 (EFE).- California presented this Friday the San Quintin Learning Center, a transformation project for the historic prison more than 170 years old, which housed the state’s execution halls. Governor Gavin Newsom inaugurated the 7,500-square-meter remodeling project, which is part of the first in a series of reforms that promise that San Quintin will become the most innovative prisoner rehabilitation center in the Uni…
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In summary Gov. Gavin Newsom suspended the death penalty and ordered the dismantling of death row. He unveiled changes at San Quentin that include a new education center. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday showed off one of his marquee criminal justice reform efforts inside what was formerly called San Quentin State Prison, a $239 million transformation that’s meant to help the site better prepare incarcerated people for release. The 81,000 square-foot…
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