Editor’s Note: This story was published in partnership with San Quentin News and was written ... I would choose life over death. I did what I’d done as a Marine recruit. Get up.

(There are no women on death row in San Quentin.) “Most of the inmates here ... and my uncle just got out after being inside since 1981. My wife and kids keep me sane while I’m in here ...

(BCN) — A death row inmate at the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center passed away over the weekend, prison officials said Wednesday. Melvin Turner was pronounced dead at 6:04 p.m. Saturday.

The state’s plans to turn San Quentin prison into a model rehabilitation center means moving death row inmates to other high-security prisons. Many have already been moved out of the bayfront ...

San Quentin State Prison is one of North America's most notorious jails. It has held convicts like Charles Manson, and today it houses the largest death row population in the USA. It is here that ...

Federal prosecutors alleged Ronaldo Ayala, reputed to be a powerful member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang, conspired with the Sinaloa cartel and offered to protect its notorious former leader, ...