Despite its harshness, San Quentin was far from secure. Between March 1854 and June 1855, 114 people escaped.
The last Portals related how California’s first state penitentiary, San Quentin, began its early existence in 1851 as a decrepit prison brig named Waban, whose tiny, reeking cells were packed.
Gray, who had already made a habit of visiting the women’s cabin on the brig, simply moved into the Middle House. As Kenneth Lamott writes in “Chronicles of San Quentin: The Biography of a Prison,” “Although he usually slept with Dolores, Scotch Mary was also seen in his bed.
Gray was said to be drunk two-thirds of the time, and that was a lenient assessment: others said they had never seen him sober. It was an underpaid and dangerous job. The complement of 20-30 guards was grossly inadequate to guard 250-300 people. Escapes were frequent, and guards were sometimes killed or maimed.
Suspects in attempted catalytic converter theft flee in Maserati The incident, which occurred Thursday morning, also involved the two suspects pointing a long rifle and a handgun at a victim After personally greeting Foley as he stepped off the steamer, Estell gave orders that Foley should live at the “hotel” and be allowed to come and go as he pleased. Foley was made a guard and issued a gun. One day he simply walked out, leaving a note for Estell promising to repay the $500 he had taken from the prison safe.
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