Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled.

Former San Quentin prisoner ... to be transferred from death row units at San Quentin into other prisons. California prison officials transferred Jones to the state prison in Sacramento, where ...

Under Governor Gavin Newsom's administration, California has shifted its death row policy, transferring condemned individuals ...

Last year, Jones was transferred out of San Quentin after Newsom ordered prison officials to dismantle death row and integrate the condemned prisoners into the general populations at other state ...

A prosecutor in California slammed a plan to build a rehabilitation center to replace San Quentin State Prison, saying the ...

(CNN)-- If one California lawmaker has his way, his cash-strapped state ... row facility to replace the existing one at San Quentin, and some say that is another reason to consider selling the prison.

San Quentin State Prison is one of North America's most notorious jails. It has held convicts like Charles Manson, and today it houses the largest death row population in the USA. It is here that ...

David Carpenter, in his 90s, was the oldest inmate on San Quentin's death row before it was dismantled and the condemned men transferred to other prisons. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) ...

Hundreds of death row inmates from San Quentin have been scattered among ... This year, he was transferred to High Desert State Prison in Lassen County. Cathy Sarinana, 48, is one of 18 women ...