Posted on 02/24/2026 6:12:57 AM PST by lowbridge
The four-building complex cost $239 million and took nearly two years to complete construction.
It includes a coding classroom, a podcast studio, a newsroom, multi-media production spaces, a library and cafe. All of the new spaces are equipped with brand-new TV screens and computers.
Besides the inmates dressed in matching blue and heavily armed guards standing nearby, the facility resembles a community college campus more than a prison.
The new learning facility is another step in the prison’s transition into a rehabilitation center, focusing on giving inmates the tools for self-improvement and learning so that they can have successful lives once they leave San Quentin.
“We didn’t want to pave over the old cow path. We didn’t want a new, modern version of the old system,” Newsom said in a speech at the facility Friday. “To start connecting that sense of humanity and hopefulness is what this is all about. Again, I’m very proud of this.”
The only inmates who will not be allowed to use the center are those who have sentences of life without parole.
The center stood out among the prison’s aging facilities, some of which are over 100 years old. A chain-link fence with barbed wire separated the learning center from the rest of the prison, but soon that will be torn down.
Some inmates also toured the new facility, expressing awe and excitement about being able to work on their crafts or learn a new skill in the learning center.
Miguel Munoz Huerta, who has been at San Quentin for three years, is eager to work with new equipment in the film department after having worked in the previous space, which was cramped.
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Don’t they mean learing center?
I call bullshit.
So there will be podcasts run from a prison? Or, perhaps, these will be viewable only by other inmates.
No spa? No concierge service? I don’t see how people can be expected to rehabilitate without a spa or concierge service.
Riiiiiiight.
Well, duh. You can't create AI porn without a decent multimedia production space.
Learing Center. NICE!!!
Something tells me that Miguel isn't going to be painting flowers and fruit.
Nicely done. Maybe slick can stay on and up his SAT score. Well when he overcomes his late on set dyslexia. If he can figure out where even to start to get a replacement birth cert. OMG..... And there are still people who will vote fore him.
“Making Smarter Criminals” is the goal of democrats
“Coding classroom”?
Government timing is impeccable. Start teaching obsolete skills.
Who says crime doesn’t pay?
Just look at the Clintons.
One of my professors, now retired, used to give lectures at San Quentin. He said he liked having a captive audience.
“Who says crime doesn’t pay?”
Yeah. What do their victims get?
Until they sue and win and are monetarily compensated for mental anguish and emotional torment of being banned from the new center. Its not easy being a murderer.
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