San Quentin State Prison was once known as “The Bastille by The Bay,” an enormous facility overlooking San Francisco Bay that housed the nation’s largest Death Row and was built in 1852 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

By Hannah Wiley. 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.

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (Gray News) - California’s notorious San Quentin is clearing out its death row inmates as the maximum-security prison transforms into a rehabilitation center.

Daniel Landry landed in prison in 1986 and has been on Death Row since 2001 for killing other inmates. MORE: Here's a look at the transformation of San Quentin State Prison He says being locked up ...

SAN QUENTIN – A former guard at San Quentin State Prison was sentenced Friday to federal prison after he was convicted for smuggling phones onto death row, prosecutors said.

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 State Prison was once known as “The Bastille by The Bay,” an enormous facility overlooking San Francisco Bay that housed the nation’s largest Death Row and was built in 1852 ...

San Quentin State Prison was once known as “The Bastille by The Bay,” an enormous facility overlooking San Francisco Bay that housed the nation’s largest Death Row and was built in 1852 ...