California's efforts to 'transform' San Quentin seemingly turn away from the existing, deplorable infrastructure of the prison.
Get the news that matters to all Californians. Start every week informed.Receive a weekly digest in your inbox from Dan Walters, who shines a light on how elected officials spend your tax dollars.Guards and inmates in the yard at San Quentin State Prison on March 17, 2023. Photo by Martin do Nascimento, CalMattersCalifornia’s whopping $14.4 billion prison budget and the governor’s $360.
“Water leaking in cell from chase again” was written by a prisoner on a maintenance sheet on the first floor. “Sink drain needs cleaned out,” another wrote. “Wall, sink, toilet area leaking,” wrote an occupant of another cell. “It’s been doing it ever since I’ve been here, and I’ve been here for a year,” he said. He reported it six months ago. “In fact, I was going to report it again.”
It’s not easy to have work done. Harry Terry, who lives in a cell on the first floor, asked maintenance to look into a lack of hot water in his sink. He told me his toilet button sticks, too, and that he has listed the problem twice. Correctional officers say they call maintenance “if it’s an emergency.” For everything else, an inmate building clerk collects the maintenance sheets to create a record and write a work order.
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