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| New warden to take charge at San Quentin Prison |
| By marinij.com |
| Published: 01/11/2010 |
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The second-in-command at San Quentin State Prison will become first-in-command on Monday. Vincent Cullen takes over the 157-year-old prison, the state's oldest, after spending a year as chief deputy warden. His annual salary will be $107,493. "I always wanted to work at San Quentin, but I never honestly believed it would come to fruition," said Cullen, 47, a Vacaville resident who will soon move to the prison grounds. "When I first started out, attaining a warden's job was almost beyond comprehension." Cullen assumes office in a climate of epic budget problems and a new state push to resume executions after a four-year suspension. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has remodeled the prison's death chamber and revised its lethal injection methods in the hopes of overcoming a court-ordered hiatus. Assemblyman Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, a critic of the death row project, said Cullen is a "nice guy," but that he hopes the new warden will focus more on rehabilitation than running "a warehouse for condemned inmates." "I would hope that he and all prison officials would get over their fixation on a Cadillac death row and focus more on cost-effective and beneficial strategies," Huffman said. "If we can get over this idea of a shiny new death row, there's a lot of good work to be done there." Read More. |
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