As a result, the Adjustment Center has emerged as one of the nation’s most perilous prison beats, because inmates know the system can do virtually nothing more to punish or control them.

It’s a kind of death row within death row, where inmates are allowed fewer privileges and face more security. Adjustment Center prisoners aren’t allowed to keep electronics in their cells and must be ...

California’s crowded death row is as defined by architecture as it is the legal battles that have blocked executions ... All but four of the 85 inmates in the Adjustment Center are condemned.

Since then, the death row population has grown to 745 (all but 21 are men, and the women are kept at the Central Women's Facility in Chowchilla). Since 1978, 117 death row inmates have died, ... If ...

Guards work death row in the Adjustment Center housing unit at San Quentin State Prison on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015, in San Quentin, Calif. The unit houses 102 of the nearly 700 inmates on death row.

Douglas Clark, 67 in prison for mass murder in 1980 is seen inside his cell during a tour of the Adjustment Center of death row at San Quentin State Prison on Tuesday December 29, 2015, in San ...

More than 200 Civil rights groups urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to use his powers to commute California's more than 500 death sentences over accusations of its constitutionality and racial discrimination.

While other Death Row inmates, like San Quentin’s general population, can briefly congregate in yards enclosed with fences and razor wire, the Adjustment Center’s inmates spend their limited ...

Robert Galvan, who is on death row for murder, speaks to members of the media at the Adjustment Center yard during a media tour of California's death row at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin ...

They are recommending to build housing and eliminate death row among other changes. The 150 page Reimagining San Quentin report breaks down how to turn the maximum-security prison into a ...