Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) told Jon Stewart on the latest episode of The Problem with Jon Stewart — titled “America’s Incarceration Epidemic” — that he intends to convert San Quentin State Prison in California to one of the world’s best “reentry facilities.”
“We’re shutting down San Quentin as we know it,” Newsom stated during a segment produced at the prison. He emphasized, “San Quentin — as a prison, as we know it — will cease to exist in 2025. This thing is shut down as we know it, and I’m converting it to one of the world’s — I hope — preeminent reentry facilities.”
Newsom said “deep programming” is being used on inmates to ensure their successful rehabilitation and reintegration into society.
The governor said, “We have 500 volunteers here with a thousand of the 3,200 prisoners here that are in deep programming — 80 different programs — and we could take it 10x in terms of scaling. That’s what we’re going to do.”