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 ...

One of the notes on potential jurors read, “I liked him better than any other Jew But No Way,” then added, “Must Kick, too Risky.” ...

The founder of Mount Tamalpais College — an accredited school that provides classes to incarcerated people at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center — received a prestigious national award last week for ...

Once Known for Death Row, San Quentin Hosts a Star-Studded Film Festival. The California prison used to house some of the state’s most violent criminals, but has become more known lately for ...

San Quentin State Prison has always been home to those responsible for the most horrific suffering, but change in its infamous death row block is coming.Since 1893, when the first inmate was hung ...

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. - San Quentin State Prison is in the process of clearing out death row after Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered it to be shut down. San Quentin holds about 3,000 convicted criminals ...

(BCN) — A death row inmate at the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center passed away over the weekend, prison officials said Wednesday. Melvin Turner was pronounced dead at 6:04 p.m. Saturday. He was 67.

He proposed renaming the facility the “San Quentin Rehabilitation Center” and moving death row inmates to other prisons throughout the state.

Whisenhunt described San Quentin State Prison’s death row as a “madhouse.” (Photo courtesy of Michael Whisenhunt) Whisenhunt was the only one of the three with a single victim. Yet the details of his ...