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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But first, they’d need to be released from prison. The nation’s largest public university system is developing a new college transfer program with Mount Tamalpais College, which is located within San ...