Instead of closing another prison, the Newsom administration is hoping to cut prison spending by reducing costs associated ...

Condemned murderer and serial rapist Richard Raymond Ramirez was serving a death sentence for the 1983 slaying of 22-year-old ...

Enrique Sandoval, Daniel Arciniega and Eleazar Alicantar learn English language skills in class at San Quentin State Prison on Wednesday. In March 2023, Gov. Newsom announced a plan to transform the ...

California needs to close more state prisons. Reviewing Newsom’s May Revision makes that impossible to ignore. The May Revision, Newsom’s annual revised budget proposal, gives ...

Twenty-one California prisons - including two facilities near Folsom - are immediately suspending inmate visitations following spikes in drug overdoses and violent attacks on prisoners and officers, ...

Dr. Aliasghar Mohyuddin, who believes his signature has been used without his consent on medical records in the California prison system, stands for a portrait at his home on Wednesday, May 28, 2025.

San Quentin prisoners serving life sentences for East Bay crimes are donating supplies and building furniture for a Richmond ...

Ramirez, who was sentenced to death for the 1983 rape and murder of a 22-year-old bank teller in Garden Grove, died in prison ...