They are planning to do another repair/expansion on the 80 year-old facility. San Marin County wants them to re-locate it instead of repairing it. Right now it sits on 432 acres of waterfront property across from San Francisco. City officials claim the property is desperately needed to build “affordable housing” or possibly a ferry port to alleviate traffic congestion.
It’s a standard news story but there were a couple of things I thought were interesting.
The average house in all of San Marin County costs $875,000! Do you really think they’ll build the cheaper houses on bayfront property overlooking the Golden Gate bridge? No, I’ll bet the houses built there will go into the millions.
The other thing is the piling up of death row inmates. San Quentin was originally built to hold 68 inmates. It has expanded and currently holds 629. The new planned expansion would house 1024.
On the other hand, California has only executed 10 people since reinstating the death penalty (1977) and gives out 20-35 death sentences a year.
Simple math tells us that we need to kill more of the bad guys. (Or at least ask them to stop doing bad things…)
Here’s some more info from the Death Penalty Information Center
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