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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

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, Calif. - San Quentin State Prison is in the process of clearing out death row after Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered it to be shut down. San Quentin holds about 3,000 convicted criminals ...

California is accelerating its efforts to empty San Quentin’s death row with plans to transfer the last 457 condemned men to other state prisons by summer. The move comes five years after Gov ...

Transforming San Quentin was one of Governor Newsom's budget priorities in 2023. It came with a $360 million price tag which included turning the prison's 81,000 square foot building called ...

Since signing the order, Newsom has moved to dismantle death row at San Quentin by moving all condemned inmates to other prisons within two years. The never-used $853,000 execution chamber is in a ...

The oldest person in San Quentin's death row is 93. "It's not the same as just transferring any person in prison," said Natasha Minsker, a policy adviser for non-profit Smart Justice California.

A San Quentin state prison inmate who spent more than 30 years on death row for beating to death a woman and her 2-year-old daughter during a burglary died early Wednesday of natural causes, state ...

But San Quentin was known primarily for its Death Row, and the prison still houses 546 condemned inmates, including Luis Bracamontes, who gunned down two Sacramento-area sheriff’s deputies in ...