On Saturday, June 21, 2025, two inmates attacked and attempted to kill another inmate by throwing him off a five-story cellblock at the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center.
At about 1530 hours Inmates Jorge Espinal-Casares and Alejandro Rosales attacked and battered Inmate Edgar Calderon on the fifth story tier. After battering him for for a while, Espinal-Casares and Rosales threw Calderon off the five-story building which caused him to land near the unit officer’s desk on the ground floor.
Responding officers quickly provided emergency medical care for Calderon who was transported off site for further medical care. Both Espinal-Casares and Rosales were rehoused into the restricted housing unit.
The San Quentin Rehabilitation Center (SQRC) is the California Governor Newsom’s pet project in his attempt to show being overly nice to inmates will help reduce violence in prisons. The SQRC has fully embraced the California Model of prison management designed to make prison life as enjoyable as possible for the inmate population. Under Newsom’s direction, the SQRC is building shopping centers, a movie theater, and coffee shops for the inmates so that life inside of prison is the same or better than life on the outside.
The California Model was implemented in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and is not based on any researched criminological methods of prison management. The California Model is focused on making inmates as happy as possible and has resulted in a large increase of inmate murders and staff attacks.
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