Why Mark Zuckerberg is hanging out in San Quentin. by Laurie Segall @LaurieSegallCNN October 14, 2015: 12:18 PM ET . Learning to code from a jail cell.

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. -- John Whearty was 22 when San Quentin State Prison officials gave him a .38-caliber revolver, a 12-gauge shotgun and a crash course in being a prison guard. "The officer I ...

The 68-year-old was found hanging in his cell at San Quentin State Prison, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesman Sam Robinson said in a written statement.

San Quentin death row inmate Justin Alan Helzer, who was convicted in 2004 of five murders in Concord and in Marin County in 2000, committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell Sunday, San ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday that more than 1,000 inmates at San Quentin State Prison have tested positive for the coronavirus.

The state’s oldest prison, San Quentin opened in 1852. While inmates were executed at Folsom State Prison in the early days, San Quentin has been the only place male inmates have been executed since ...

Actors Rahim Bradshaw, left and Andrew Hellums watch for their cue to enter during a performance of Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronicus” in the chapel at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center in San ...

At San Quentin, the exercise yard for Death Row inmates has just one stone wall separating the inmates and freedom -- and the guard tower nearest that yard was unusable for 10 months after the '97 ...

Kolby Southwood, left, who plays Saturninus, and Yanci Dakin, who plays Tamora, review their lines before a performance of Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronicus” at the San Quentin prison chapel ...

San Quentin begins prison reform - but not for those on death row. 17 March 2024. ... Since 1893, 422 people have been executed there, including by gas, hanging or lethal injection.