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The first time I walked into the visiting room for death row inmates at San Quentin State Prison was the most frightening experience of my life. I had never had any experience with prison and had never known anyone who had been either a prisoner or prison employee. I knew what I had heard on the radio, been told by politicians, and seen on television and in the movies. I was not prepared for what I saw that day. I looked around the visiting room for condemned inmates and did not see a single monster. I saw perfectly ordinary men who were neatly dressed.