It’s in a corner of San Quentin State Prison farthest from the front gate and the gift shop, beyond which Interstate 580 runs traffic to and from the well-off towns of Marin County, north of the ...

San Quentin State Prison is facing the largest single penalty in the state over workplace safety violations for failing to prevent the spread of COVID-19, resulting in the deaths of 28 inmates and ...

The Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison organizes volunteer instructors from schools like UC-Berkeley and Stanford, who conduct classes inside the prison walls. Inmates can earn ...

Currently 40% of inmates participate in these programs, which are aimed at personal development, education and vocational training. On the day ABC10 visited San Quentin there was an inmate versus ...

Rafeal "Nephew" Bankston is an inmate at San Quentin State Prison. Kate Sosin. No one said a word. Lisa Strawn, 60, a transgender woman, was sitting next to Bankston and didn't move.

So the inmates quickly began brainstorming for the college tennis player making his first visit to San Quentin. “Finesse,” offered 22-year-old Braydon Tennison.

While California has not executed a death row inmate since 2006, an out-of-control COVID-19 outbreak at San Quentin State Prison may have contributed to the death of a fifth condemned inmate on ...

Another murderer on death row at San Quentin State Prison has died of apparent complications related to COVID-19, the 12th inmate to die at the prison since the start of the pandemic.

I’m a weekly volunteer teacher at San Quentin, helping prisoners learn literacy and reading comprehension in preparation to get a GED. Approximately 68% of the 3,787 inmates at San Quentin do ...

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. — Behind a fortress wall and razor wire and a few feet away from California's death row, students at one of the country's most unique colleges discuss the 9/11 attacks and ...

The latest of these projects, "San Quentin Artists," publishes art and poetry made by death row inmates at San Quentin State, California's oldest prison and the only one in the state.