Gordon Stewart Northcott, 23, was hanged in San Quentin Prison in 1930 after being convicted the year before of kidnapping, ...

San Quentin, the oldest prison in California, used to house hundreds of people on death row. But it’s transforming from a maximum-security prison to a rehabilitation center. A new campus ...

It will screen October 11 at the San Quentin Film Festival, a two-day event on the grounds of the prison that houses upwards ...

Assemblymember Damon Connolly and San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins have announced a bill intended to improve ...

Mendoza speaks with Insider about rivalry with the Mexican Mafia and Aryan Brotherhood, corrupt prison guards, attacks, and uprisings. He offers his opinions on San Quentin reform and rehabilitation.

Convicted killer Scott Peterson was on the losing end of a beatdown in prison over a dispute over pickleball, according to ...

His tour of comeuppance included stints in Solano State Prison, and Folsom Prison before landing in San Quentin. Taylor doesn’t offer excuses for his crime but rather offers his backstory which ...

Since 1973, 4% of death row inmates are now exonerees, but that doesn’t tell you anything about how many people with ...

Not too long ago, Vasquez was incarcerated himself with two life sentences for an attempted murder that occurred when he was 17. His final years in prison were spent at San Quentin, where he served as ...