San Quentin (, meaning " St. Quentin") is a small

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Marin County Marin County ( ) is a county located in the northwestern part of the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 262,231. Its county seat and largest city is San Rafael. Marin County is ac ...

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, United States. It is located west of Point San Quentin, at an elevation of .

Description

San Quentin is adjacent to

San Quentin State Prison San Quentin Rehabilitation Center (SQ), formerly known as San Quentin State Prison, is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated area, unincorporated place ...

, located just east of the prison, and is also known as San Quentin VillageKlaner, Shelley Shepherd.
Village People
". ''Pacific Sun'', October 17, 2008. Retrieved January 9, 2009. or Point San Quentin Village.Wood, Jim
"Point San Quentin Village. Arguably, Marin's most unique community"
. ''Marin Magazine'', November 2007. Retrieved January 9, 2009. It has 40 single-family houses and a condominium complex with ten units, and its population is about 100. The town was originally housing for the prison's employees and their families. Before California's effective moratorium on the death penalty in 2006, San Quentin was the only place in the state where prisoners were executed. Residents would rent their driveways to media vans during these controversial executions. Many death penalty abolitionists would also appear and demonstrate against the practice. This garnered much media attention.

Government and infrastructure

The

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operates the San Quentin Post Office. A post office operated at San Quentin for a time in 1859, and from 1862. The Tamal post office is a substation of the San Quentin post office. In the

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, San Quentin is in the 3rd Senate District, and in the 6th Assembly District. Federally, San Quentin is in . The village is served by Golden Gate Transit route 40 between

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and El Cerrito del Norte BART stations across the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge in

Contra Costa County Contra Costa County (; ''Contra Costa'', Spanish language, Spanish for 'Opposite Coast') is a U.S. county, county located in the U.S. state of California, in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. As of the 2020 United States census, the ...

and San Rafael Transit Center in downtown San Rafael. The community is in ZIP code 94964 and

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. Prior to the opening of the

Richmond–San Rafael Bridge The Richmond–San Rafael Bridge (officially renamed the John F. McCarthy Memorial Bridge in 1981) is the northernmost of the east–west crossings of California's San Francisco Bay, carrying Interstate 580 from Richmond on the east to San R ...

, the Richmond–San Rafael Ferry Company operated car ferries between here and Castro Point in

Notable people

* Duster Mails was a

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pitcher for the Brooklyn Robins, Cleveland Indians and St. Louis Cardinals.

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