By Janie Har and Sophie Austin | Related Press/Report for America
SACRAMENTO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to remodel a state lockup that's dwelling to the nation’s largest variety of demise row inmates right into a facility the place prisoners can obtain training, coaching and rehabilitation.
Newsom’s workplace introduced the brand new plans Thursday for San Quentin State Jail, which can be renamed the San Quentin Rehabilitation Middle. The governor plans to go to the jail on the shore of San Francisco Bay on Friday as a part of a statewide coverage tour.
The plan marks an enormous shift in how the state would form the fates of these behind bars.
Newsom introduced a moratorium on executions in 2019, however almost 700 inmates stay on demise row as we speak.
Dying sentences in California have declined through the years, and the state final executed an inmate in 2006.
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