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 ...

a two-day event on the grounds of the prison that houses upwards of 4,000 inmates (the facility, which changed its name last ...

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 ...

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

But first, they’d need to be released from prison. The nation’s largest public university system is developing a new college transfer program with Mount Tamalpais College, which is located within San ...

At the latest conference on Thursday, Tigar said he’s hoping to prevent what’s happened in San Quentin State Prison, which saw its first cases after 121 prisoners were transferred there in late May ...

We come full circle on a story we first covered in 2016 when we visited the exercise yard at San Quentin State prison in California. It houses the highest number of death row inmates in America ...