San Quentin: The Evolution Of A State Prison
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| Originally published | 2005 |
| Authors | Michael Burgess |
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| ID | 2123949 |
About San Quentin: The Evolution Of A State Prison
The coming of statehood to California in 1850 forced the authorities to face one immediately pressing issue: what to do with the many convicts who were pouring forth from the local county courtrooms in the wake of the great Gold Rush of 1848-49. . . .