Associate warden Richard Nelson helped create the San Quentin Museum in ... the initial reception area for state prisoners. “If a judge sentences someone to prison, San Quentin is often the ...

At that the other three, all wounded, marched out with hands in air and the most sensational break in San Quentin’s history was over. Back in the prison hospital, where Warden Holohan lay ...

Reforming a bad prison is as ... the daughter of another San Quentin guard. Fascination for the gloomy pile, and an odd, boyhood ambition—to live some day in the big warden’s mansion—brought ...

The state’s plans to turn San Quentin prison into a model rehabilitation center means moving death row inmates to other high-security prisons. Many have already been moved out of the bayfront ...

Show more Behind the walls of San Quentin State Prison in California, three men sentenced to life for murder undertake running a marathon. Training all year, their route is unconventional ...

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 ...