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

Christopher Lightsey, the man who is on death row for a murder he committed in 1993 in Kern County, was resentenced to death ...

San Quentin Prison, jutting into the Bay 10 miles above ... the convicts roared through the prison gate. Over northern California spread a general alarm. Highways were blocked, drawbridges raised ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I entered the adult prison system in the early 2000s, there were a little more than 163,000 people incarcerated in California ... of the prisoner-run San Quentin News, I responded to ...

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

Federal prosecutors alleged Ronaldo Ayala, reputed to be a powerful member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang, conspired with ...

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