does san quentin prison have more dangerous inmates than pelican bay prison?
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Pelican Bay is primarily for inmates who are gang affiliated and would pose a high risk to other inmates and hence are closely watched and in small groups.  San Quentin's inmates may be equally dangerous in the community but they are not as hard to manage in custody.
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No. Because if a sex offender is still considered dangerous, the only rational thing to do is to change the laws to make all violent sexual assault and child molestation crimes have mandatory life sentences.\n\nEither they've paid their debt to society and are free, or they should be behind bars or 6' under.\n\nIt is the height of folly to let criminal sex offenders out of prison, then turn around and label them dangerous. What politicians need to do is make these mandatory life sentences.\n\nAm I wrong?
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it depends on what city or country your living in ..\nin singapore for example,theyre very harsh but it works for them\nevery offense has an equivalent punishment.. some would say barbaric punishment.. they say it makes the people aware that their government is serious when it comes to crime...
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Good god.   I have never seen so many "probably," "maybe," or "most likely" answers in one place in awhile.\n\nMy husband has been in federal prison for 26 years so please allow me to shed some authenticity on the subject.    The convictions on specific crimes do determine where they start out, such as a U.S. Penitentiary, like Leavenworth.  \n\nBut over time, some can wind up at a Medium or a Minimum.   IF they live long enough, they can be released to a camp before going home.    Camp is still a controlled environment.\n\nYou were not give accurate descriptions at all of the various levels, including the Wikipedia response.   \n\nMy husband was convicted on less than four ounces of cocaine, and got 41 years, thanks to RICO back in the 80's.  Due to his age and health, he  is currently at a Minimum.   He has been in prisons in Kansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Kentucky and Florida.   Go figure.   He is currently 700 miles away from any family, one way.   He is 65 years old, with health problems, and has been thoroughly screwed over by the parole board (long story).    We have been trying to get THAT straightened out for four years now.   \n\nMinimums are not Cupcake Facilities.   Minimums are enclosed by razor wire, they are patrolled internally and externally, and the guys are told when to get up, when to eat, when they can go outside, when they have to come inside, when they have to go to bed.    Visitors have to be on a list, and go through metal detectors, and at least three interior doors to get to the visiting room. \n\nThere is one doctor for the 2000 men at his facility.   I knew a young man that got gangraped and died from his injuries there, and an elderly diabetic who died in his wheelchair outside the med unit waiting for help.    Miniums are no picnic.   \n\nUnlike TV shows (I Hate Prison Break!), the guys do not discuss their crimes.    Child molesters keep their mouths shut, and gangsta wannabees brag to enhance their reputation.   You can't believe anything the inmates tell you, period, so no one really knows what anyone is in there for, unless it makes the news.   \n\n If you check out my husband's web site, you will see that he was not a white-collar criminal, as someone else stated.  There are white-collar criminals there, like income tax evasion or embezzling, but I would guestimate that 90% of the inmates in federal prison are there on drug-related charges (thanks to our politicians and their "get tough on crime" mandatory minimums  - 5 years for one joint).  \n\nThere are a lot of men and women who have no business in prison, but the power to decide cases on individual points has been taken away from judges, by the politicians and their laws.    Those laws always impress voters, until someone in their family gets in trouble.   Then they find out that once those doors slam, that's it.   The kid who died after being gang-raped was only in there for a three-year drug sentence, not a death sentence.   I met his parents and they will never get over it.\n\nThere are Cupcake prisons, for Martha and the politicians, but regular folks will never see one of those.  \n\nFor the most part, the documentaries you see on PBS are more accurate about current prison life, in any of the prisons.   Prison is hell on earth, with camp being Purgatory.   They are not intended to rehab, but are warehouses, to keep the "bad" people away from the "good" people.    \n\nHope this gives you more accurate info.
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I think Federal prison would be worse to be in because it is run by the government, whereas a state prison is run by a state...
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that would be the catholics. AKA French catholics. The French ran some of the most notorious prison systems in the world in both Cambodia and Vietnam.
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I agree wholeheartedly, and think it is a shame.\n\nTo make matters worse, prisoners come out worse than they went in--due to being labeled--and due to being made to live among worse criminals.
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I have done numerous prison terms in California...and my experience is that there are not enough prisons to house all of the inmates. For example, Los Angeles, CA. has the largest county jail in the country...more than 4600 inmates. There are 6 jail facilities that make up the county jail...TWIN TOWERS, MAIN CENTRAL JAIL, MINIMUM SECURITY, MAX EAST, NORTH CORRECTIONAL, AND SUPERMAX FACILITY. In main central jail...there are 4-man/6 man cells...in Twin Towers...there are pods of bunks that bed 3 people per bunk. In Minimum security...there are quantsit huts (military-style dorms) which have 300 bunks...each beds 4 people. In Max East, North max, and Super max...there are cells and dorms. The cells house the most violent of offenders...rapists and validated prisongang members...the dorms house everyone else...200 people per dorm (8 dorms) and 70 people per cellblock. Overcrowding is a norm. Even in California, prisons are overcrouded as well.
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Albeit there seems to be some issues with the correctional system, I've worked there and haven't found a better way of things. Not all inmates are monsters. Yes, they did wrong in someway, but can you honestly look someone in the eye and say that a seventy-two year old woman who is in for bad checks needs to be locked up and have the key thrown away? People like that are in there. Or the guy in there with an IQ of 50 who got a hold of a gun and was waving it around? He needs a hospital not a prison, but they put him in with regular population. \nDo you think it is right for the man to miss his daughter's funeral, just because he's locked up? \nOn another note. I know they have a lot of 'privileges' and rights. But seeing how, I've worked in a prison, things like weights, basketball, musical instruments keep them entertained and from making their own entertainment. When they are left to find ways to entertain themselves it comes in forms that are undesirable like fights. \nThe appeal system for death row inmates is designed to weed out those wrongfully accused and incarcerated. Our justice system is an adversary system like that and thank heavens for it. Unfortunately a few who are guilty escape justice they deserved. But until we find a way that is better we have to do with what we have.
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Contact San Quentin jail from California.
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Hell NO!  I have a very close member of my family in prison for a crime that he did not commit, I would not want him fighting over there, it is hard enough to stay alive in prison!
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well, all your detail is the answer, but I presume you want a concise summary. So:\n\nActs both dangerous to human life and criminal, that appear to intimidate or coerce a civilian population - committed within the jurisdiction of the United States.
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I think jails are too soft. The only ones they prevent from re-offending are the lifers.\n\nIf jail meant solitary confinement, 2 cold meals a day & exercise being limited to push-ups in the cell, I bet re-offenders would be practically non existent.\n\nOh sure, it would breach the prisoners' human rights - BOO F**KING HOO - What about the human rights of the victims of criminals? What about the rest of us? Shouldn't the right to live in a safe society be classed as a human right?
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One of the guys who helped install S.Quentin's gas chamber died there a few years later (this not an urban legend, it is told in warden Duffy's book "88 men and 2 women").\n\nDeath penalty does not deter, as most murderers think they are smart enough to avoid punishment (actually, quite a few are. Look the big number of unresolved murders).
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anywhere but the prison
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How can it not?\nInside they have their own laws, and I do not mean prison laws.\nTo live you obey them, if not you could very well end up dead.\nIt is sad to say but some of our prisons are run by the gangs inside them.\nThe prisoners behind bars have it so good any more that prison is no deterrent to crime at all.
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I have met executioners and they tend to be people who strongly believe they are carrying out one of their many job responsibilities.  They take no joy from it, but neither do they shy away from being part of the system's mechanism for the ultimate punishment.  I did not get the impression that the people with whom I met were psychopathic or sociopathic (as most other thrill-killers would be).\n\nTo put this answer in context, by the way, I am not generally in favor of the death penalty because I think our system of justice is far too imperfect for it to ever be fairly and equally meted out.