Photos: Death row tour

Media gather after a tour of the Adjustment Center at San Quentin prison.

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Dec. 29, 2015 8:15 PM PT

Members of the media were given a rare view of death row at San Quentin.

The East Block of death row at San Quentin prison.

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Condemned inmate Robert Galvan gets some exercise in the yard in the Adjustment Center at San Quentin prison.

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A condemned prisoner holds the mesh fence in the exercise yard during a media tour at San Quentin prison.

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Condemned inmate Charles Case spends some of his time typing in his cell in the East Block at San Quentin prison.

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The guards in Tower One keep watch during a media tour at San Quentin prison.

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The door to one of the cell blocks in the Adjustment Center is locked while guards supervise work being done in one of the housing units at San Quentin prison for condemned prisoners.

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A death row inmate gets some phone time on the East Block at San Quentin prison.

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Condemned inmate Douglas Clark tries to tell his story to reporters touring the Adjusment Center at San Quentin prison.

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A guard stands watch over the condemned prisoners housed in East Block during a media tour of death row at San Quentin prison.

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A guard closes the door to death row after a media tour at San Quentin prison.

(Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)