article_snippet: As part of a class assignment, inmates at California's oldest prison were tasked with writing part of a class assignment, inmates at California's oldest prison own obituaries - and the results were as startling as part of a class assignment, inmates at California's oldest prison were moving.
article_snippet: his is one of several inmateswho wrote his own obituary for a class project .
article_snippet: You was convicted of murder and attempted murder in 1996 and could spend the rest of his life behind bars.
article_snippet: My incarceration, the reason I'm here, is by taking a life.
article_snippet: Prison: San Quentin State Prison, north of San Francisco, is California's oldest prison .