About a 20 - mile drive from Oakland , the prison boasts 3,873 inmates , 732 of them on California 's only death row for men .
You do n't get used to San Quentin .
About a 20 - mile drive from Oakland , the San Quentin boasts 3,873 inmates , 732 of them on California 's only death row for men .
You do n't get used to San Quentin .