(BCN) — A death row inmate at the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center passed away over the weekend, prison officials said Wednesday. Melvin Turner was pronounced dead at 6:04 p.m. Saturday.
(There are no women on death row in San Quentin.) “Most of the inmates here behave like normal people, but you think about what they’ve done,” he said. “I always keep that in mind.
The state’s plans to turn San Quentin prison into a model rehabilitation center means moving death row inmates to other high-security prisons. Many have already been moved out of the bayfront ...