San Quentin, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"Kate had in her files a notation relating to one Joseph Venuta who had walked away from a San Quentin road gang in the fourth year of a five‐year sentence for robbery."

"If you get a good break you'll be out of San Quentin in twenty years and you can come back to me then."

"To settle down before they settled me—in San Quentin or some place."

"After that I could go up and sit in the gas chamber at San Quentin and laugh."

"…that you’re sitting strapped in the chair in the clean little gas chamber up in San Quentin and when you take that breath you’re fighting with all your soul not to take it, it won’t be air you’ll get, it will be cyanide fumes."

"He got hired at the coliseum in 1989, after doing five years at San Quentin for stabbing a guy outside a biker bar on Fruitvale down by the railroad tracks."

"Stanville is synonymous with its prison. Like Corcoran is, and Chino, Delano and Chowchilla and Avenal, Susanville and San Quentin, scores of towns that house prisons and share a name, up and down the state."