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

CALIFORNIA law will prevent public libraries and prisons from arbitrarily banning books. As an African American who has spent the majority of my life in prison, I know what it’s like not to be allowed ...

Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Religious attendance is consistently correlated with higher levels of contentment and satisfaction. Here's what the research ...

An armed California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officer stands guard at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, formerly San Quentin State Prison. California is among the states with an ...