but it has also been home to people you wouldn't expect, like country singer merle haggard, actor danny trejond even stanley williams, convicted murderer and ex-gang member turned peace medal nominee and children's book author, who the state still saw fit to execute. san quentin is a handful of american prisons who like a pop star or a-list celebrity for some reason rise to an iconic single-name status like alcatraz, folsom, rahway, or britney, which, of course, means that johnny cash recorded an album there. now why in the world would i be going there? well, whether we like to think about it or not, there are human beings behind these walls. yes, some very bad ones, but then some who i've heard are just people who have done bad things. some who just made mistakes, got caught up in the system. and i want to meet these men to find out what life is really like in prison and see if they are being rehabilitated, or are they all doomed to become another statistic in the ever growing business that is prison? >> thank you. >> and more than any other prison in the state of california, san francisco a