Once known as California's toughest state prison, San Quentin is undergoing a dramatic transformation. Its death row is being emptied out, with more than 500 condemned inmates being transferred to ...

The state government has been transferring the death row population in the infamous San Quentin prison to dozens of ...

AND SO HE PICTURES HIMSELF ... a condemned inmate is serving his sentence far from San Quentin State Prison on the shores of Marin County. Jarvis Masters was recently transferred to the Sierra ...

DoC)Sam Robinson (Self - Lieutenant)Wayne Smith (Self - Inmate) David Lent, Richard Harkness, Clint Weyrauch, Jack Burris San Quentin State Prison (SQ) is a California Department of Corrections ...

USA: Rikers Island in New York City was named one of America's 10 worst prisons by Mother Jones. The prison is known for inmate violence and abuse at the hands of staff.

California may have the second-highest prison population in the nation but it stands out for defying a national trend—while the U.S. prison population increased by more than 2 percent between ...

We encourage our brothers and sisters on the other side of the wall to write in to our show. Occasionally we read those letters on the air. This letter comes to us from San Quentin State Prison.

California is making bold moves to dismantle death row at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center ... The shift is part of a larger effort to reshape the state's prison system. The state is rolling ...

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. - Prisoners and guards at ... other as part of the ongoing effort to convert the 171-year-old state prison into a rehabilitation center. The event, dubbed "Pawns to Progress ...

B  SACRAMENTO, CA - Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) Monday reported, “Advocates are cautiously optimistic ...

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 ...

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. - Prisoners and guards at San Quentin faced off and partnered up recently to play games of chess in the ...