21.   As inmates were returning en masse from the recreation yard through an electronic gateway, Hope and his two companions walked in the opposite direction undetected.

22.   As we made the slow passage past San Quentin, the inmates were in the yard getting some midday sun and shooting hoops.

23.   Both inmates are artists, and have made the Presa Canario dogs the subjects of many of their works.

24.   A half-dozen other inmates were already crowded around her.

25.   A recent inmate was an escaped prisoner from New Mexico, wanted in the killing of a teen-age boy.

26.   After they told him their supervisor had gone to a dorm, Murphy left, never reporting that the inmates were alone.

27.   After that the inmates are on their own, unless the courts help them.

28.   All the inmates are on or awaiting trial.

29.   But critics, including the prison guards union, say maximum-security inmates are typically disciplinary problems who spend the vast majority of their time in their cells.

30.   But columnist Cal Thomas, a conservative Christian and one-time associate of the Rev. Jerry Falwell, says many inmates awaiting death are born again.