As a member of the Veterans Group at San Quentin, we’re allowed to wear distinctive royal blue hats emblazoned with its ...

Around a table at San Quentin Prison one morning last week met Frank C. Sykes of San Francisco; Joseph H. Stephens, Sacramento banker; Warren Atherton, Stockton lawyer. They were members of ...

Reforming a bad prison is as delicate and dangerous a job as tinkering with the mechanism of a faulty bomb. For 88 years, California ran its fortress-like San Quentin penitentiary by looking the ...

Defendants Kenneth Johnson, Francis Clement, and Johnson Stinson are already in state prison serving life sentences ...

An incarcerated San Mateo man was one of five alleged gang members federally indicted on racketeering and drug offenses that were carried out by the Mexican Mafia prison gang, the U.S. Department of ...

Christopher Lightsey, the man who is on death row for a murder he committed in 1993 in Kern County, was resentenced to death on Tuesday. Lightsey, 71, remains incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison ...

Officials are preparing to screen potential construction management firms for the 135-apartment Oak Hill project near San ...

formerly San Quentin State Prison. California is among the states with an independent oversight office that monitors state correctional facilities. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. Rampant ...

As A24 re-releases the Colman Domingo Oscar contender in movie theaters this week, the indie studio is also making Sing Sing available to nearly a million incarcerated people across the U.S.

The Aryan Brotherhood gang formed in 1964 in California’s San Quentin prison, as the state carceral system desegregated and racial conflict broke out between the newly integrated inmates.