Not too long ago, Vasquez was incarcerated himself with two life sentences for an attempted murder that occurred when he was ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

A look behind the walls of San Quentin State Prison in California, where three men, who have been sentenced to life in prison for murder, undertake running a marathon. Training all year, their route ...

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.

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

Editor’s Note: This story was published in partnership with San Quentin News and was written during a writing seminar for incarcerated veterans in April hosted by The War Horse at California’s ...