Al” Jones reached out to Ben Kinmont five years ago looking for help. Today, the pair are seeking $80,000 for Jones’ manuscripts.

The collection up for sale includes journals and cookbooks that inmate Albert Jones has written from death row. The bookseller representing him says it offers a rare glimpse into life on one of ...

Newsom zeroed in on San Quentin when he first took office — almost immediately he placed a moratorium on prison executions and began to transfer death row prisoners from San Quentin to other ...

But among the first editions and historical manuscripts is an archive of writings from an unlikely place: death row at San Quentin Prison in California. The archive contains much of the vast ...

SAN FRANCISCO — In early 2020, Albert Jones was sitting in his cell on San Quentin's death row, as he had every day for nearly three decades, when reports of a mysterious respiratory illness ...

In early 2020, Albert Jones was sitting in his cell on San Quentin's death row, as he had every day for nearly three decades, when reports of a mysterious respiratory illness started to circulate.