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

Today, the pair are seeking $80,000 for Jones’ manuscripts. What was life like on San Quentin’s death row? Ben Kinmont, an antique bookseller and project artist in Sebastopol, hadn’t thought ...

But among the first editions and historical manuscripts is an archive of writings from an unlikely place: death row at San Quentin Prison in California. The archive contains much of the vast ...

A death row inmate, Jones spent more than 30 years in one of the nation’s most notorious prisons, San Quentin. He was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of a California couple.

San Quentin was once home to the largest death row population in the United States. The puppy training program started the year it transformed into a lockup where less-dangerous prisoners receive ...