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San Quentin's most infamous death row inmates are being moved By Katie Dowd , Managing editor March 27, 2023 In this Aug. 16, 2016, file photo, a condemned inmate is led out of his east block cell ...
2000-07-27 04:00:00 PDT SAN QUENTIN-- Three death row inmates broke through a chain-link fence at San Quentin Prison last week and threatened several guards before they were subdued in an incident ...
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. He was 67. There ...
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials said Wednesday they are launching a program that aims to relocate people with death sentences to different prisons by this summer ...
For nearly two decades, a small, Spartan room within the fortress of San Quentin State Prison has served as a lifeline, not only for those incarcerated inside but for myriad outside visitors ...
City and law enforcement officials in San Bernardino County say they are outraged after dozens of death row inmates were transferred from San Quentin State Prison to Chino. In a series of press ...
San Quentin will clear out death row inmates by July as the maximum security prison will be transformed into a rehabilitation center. 24/7 Live San Francisco East Bay South Bay Peninsula North Bay.
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 ...
San Quentin State Prison has always been home to those responsible for the most horrific suffering, but change in its infamous death row block is coming.Since 1893, when the first inmate was hung ...
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 ...
A 74-year-old death row inmate died from "natural causes" in the San Quentin State Prison infirmary Tuesday evening, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced Wednesday ...
A condemned inmate is led to his cell in San Quentin's Death Row. California is shutting down death row and transferring 471 condemned people out of the prison and into the general population at ...