SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – San Quentin State Prison is allowing visitors to return and regular showers to resume as it deals with a respiratory illness among inmates. State corrections department ...

San Quentin officials cited Governor Newsom’s May 25, 2021, emergency drought proclamation and Warden Davis’s July 8, 2021, bulletin when, on September 3, 2022, they denied a grievance Steven ...

A correctional officer at San Quentin State Prison sustained a significant arm injury after a death-row inmate used a weapon to attack the guard in a shower room, authorities reported Monday.

A failed water pipe at San Quentin State Prison has left 1,698 inmates without drinking water or functional toilets in their ... and are being escorted to showers and restrooms as needed,” Berry ...

A Death Row inmate at San Quentin State Prison slashed a correctional officer with a makeshift weapon inside one of the facility’s showers — a decade after he pulled a similar attack on ...

The virus arrived in San Quentin after busloads of prisoners were transferred from another facility where infections were rising. What happened is a warning for the nation’s prisons, experts say.

SAN QUENTIN (CBS SF) -- A guard at San Quentin was attacked by an inmate last week, according to the department of corrections. 38-year-old convicted gang member Richard Penunuri attacked the ...

The San Quentin cells are reminiscent of slave quarters in the bowels of a ship. As of June 22, California’s prison population was 97,201 — more prisoners by a third than the 35 state prisons ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday that more than 1,000 inmates at San Quentin State Prison have tested positive for the coronavirus.

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. - A number of people incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison have been enduring a water shortage for the past couple of days following flooding incidents within the prison ...