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| Peterson to begin life on Death Row |
| By San Francisco Chronicle |
| Published: 03/21/2005 |
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Scott Peterson, once an upwardly mobile fertilizer salesman in Modesto, Calif., now lives in Marin County, where he is to spend the rest of his life in the downwardly mobile confines of San Quentin State Prison's Death Row. He will spend much of the day in an 8-by-6-foot cell containing a steel bed frame bolted to the floor, with a sheet of steel lying on it. On top of that is a mattress. There used to be bedsprings, but officers found that prisoners tended to make weapons out of them. Last Wednesday, Sgt. Eric Messick, a spokesman for San Quentin, described what is in store for the newest resident of California's Death Row. Once the 32-year-old Peterson arrives at San Quentin, Messick said, "he will be taken directly to the Adjustment Center, a 102-man cell-block reception center" for newly arrived condemned men. Messick said 97 of the 102 prisoners now living in the reception center are men who have been in trouble in prison and are classified Grade B inmates, as opposed to the Grade A prisoners who are better behaved. Peterson will go through 45 days of interviews, in which his "social factors and educational background will be assessed by an institutional classification committee," Messick said. "He'll have medical and psychological evaluations and then, because he's not from a criminal background, he will probably be sent to East Block," which houses 450 of San Quentin's 615 condemned men. Twenty-five condemned inmates are at other prisons. |
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