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because we will not allow any inmate traffic in front of his self. Uh, and the feeding his feeding will be off. The regular condemned Rocard, the only difference being at the officer supervised the feeding will himself take the food out of the hot cart and carried

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the trade to him a matter of some 20 ft. Uh, normally, Inmate is long helping feed, but in this case will require the staff member to do it himself. What's in the cell itself sell itself is a relatively Auster cell. It has a bed fastened to

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the wall about like soul, and there's a comm old behind that. There's a washbasin along the wall at the back of the cell. There's a there's a shelf above the washbasin. There's a table and a stool and ah, light along the wall is a fluorescent light

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along the wall. Onda. That's about it. There's an outlet for There's a Control for the television, which is out here has one television front of each of these three cells, which are hospital type television sets. In it, they're remotely controlled from the cell, much as you

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do in the hospital bed. Lethal gas was authorized in California in 1937 and since then 194 inmates have died in the San Quentin chamber. However, there have been only two executions in the past six years, primarily due to key Supreme Court decisions. The population on death

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row remains at about 80 with a steady turnover due to various appeals and legal maneuvers. The death verdict for Sirhan Sirhan is also expected to be tied up in the courts for many months. A special three room security suite has already been constructed at the state

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facility in Vacaville, reportedly to house Serhane, and a bill is now pending in the legislature that would authorize Serhane or any other death row inmate to be transferred there for treatment. However, San Quentin officials say Serhane Serhane will be brought to death row by this power

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to transfer condemned and had never been specifically given to him. So this this uh, legislation introduced prior to the problem of prior to the time of Serhane Serhane and the thought of keeping him there, Warden Nelson, what kind of security measures are going to be taken

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for Serhane? What about the possibility of poisoning of food for instance. Well, we sample of food every day for the men on Condemn, bro. We're feeding 79 other men on Condemn, Bro. We do not believe that any inmate cook would be willing to poison all 80

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people in order to reach one. Nor do we believe that poison is available such quantity in the institution as a footnote. Prison officials say all of this security and isolation for Serhane may prove to be unnecessary that he may in time be accepted by fellow inmates

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here. However, no one is banking on that now. This is Mike Lee Eyewitness News, San Quentin.