The hulking facility overlooking San Francisco Bay in Marin County is the oldest correctional facility in California, dating ...

The collection up for sale includes journals and cookbooks that inmate Albert Jones has written from death row. The ...

State of the Bay discusses plans to turn San Quentin into Scandinavian-style rehab center, sits down with SFUSD ...

California officials are moving forward with a costly multi-hundred million dollar renovation to the San Quentin State Prison ...

Cain Velasquez’s path to parole could come sooner than expected, with a potential release by March 2026 after time served ...

San Quentin is the state’s oldest prison. While certainly outdated, the state’s remodel goes far beyond improving conditions or modernizing facilities: San Quentin is California’s model for ...

By Olga R. Rodriguez Hugs, tears, barking and tail wagging abounded at San Quentin’s prison when two black Labradors reunited with the incarcerated men who helped raise them to be service dogs.

In the following months, hundreds of death row inmates fell sick as COVID-19 swept through San Quentin State Prison's east block, the crowded warren of concrete and iron cells, stacked five ...

Yet, unlike some of my conservative-minded friends, I am encouraged rather than appalled by the Newsom administration’s $239-million plan to remake the notorious San Quentin State Prison in ...