'I want to be remembered.' Death row inmate puts San Quentin journals, art up for sale at $80,000

The collection up for sale includes journals and cookbooks that inmate Albert Jones has written from death row. The bookseller representing him says it offers a rare glimpse into life on one of America's most notorious cell blocks.

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