An inmate sits in his cell at San Quentin State Prison's death row on August 15, 2016 in San Quentin, California. San Quentin State Prison opened in 1852 and is California's oldest penitentiary.

PIX Now Afternoon Edition 4-29-2024 07:27. A man who was condemned to death row at San Quentin State Prison in 1998 was found dead in his cell Monday and authorities are investigating it as a ...

SACRAMENTO — An inmate who spent nearly three decades on California’s death row has died after being found in his cell, authorities said. Jose Francisco Guerra, 61, was pronounced dead on ...

By age 46, Bob Williams had spent more than half his life in isolation, waiting to die on San Quentin's death row.

San Quentin State Prison is on the verge of running out of space for condemned inmates, and Gov. Jerry Brown has asked the Legislature for $3.2 million to open 97 more cells to accommodate more dea… ...

Journalists were shown San Quentin State Prison’s crowded and noisy East Block — largely unchanged since its construction in 1930 — and the newly opened death row psychiatric ward, the first ...

Why a former San Quentin death-row inmate’s manuscripts are up for sale for $80,000 by a Sebastopol bookseller. Former San Quentin prisoner Albert “Ru-Al” Jones reached out to Ben Kinmont ...

SAN FRANCISCO — By age 46, Bob Williams had spent more than half his life in isolation, waiting to die on San Quentin’s death row. Williams was 18 when he raped and murdered 40-year-old Mary ...

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (KGO) -- The five stories of concrete cells that make up what used to be called San Quentin Death Row is where Kevin Bernouby has lived since 2011. "As you noticed, we are in a ...

Inside San Quentin, most jobs or vocational training for those on death row are out of reach, because inside the prison the condemned population must be handcuffed anytime they leave their cells.