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San Quentin State Prison SQ is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated town of San Quentin in Marin County San Quentin opened in July 1852 it is the oldest prison in California The states only death row for male inmates the largest in the United States is located at the prison It has a gas chamber but since 1996 executions at the prison have been carried out by lethal injection though the prison has not performed an execution since 2006
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