San Quentin prison is now a place that provides prisoners hope and the chance to change.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has kept intact more than $200 million from his prior budget to revamp San Quentin.

On a recent morning inside San Quentin prison , Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman and more than a dozen other prosecutors crowded into a high-ceilinged meeting hall surrounded by killers, rapists and other serious offenders.

Name the crime, one of these guys has probably done it.

“It’s not every day that you’re in a room of 100 people, most of whom have committed murder, extremely violent crimes, and been convicted of it,” Hochman later said.

Many of these men, in their casual blue uniforms, were serving long sentences with little chance of getting out, like Marlon Arturo Melendez,

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