An emotional, first-ever father-daughter prom was recently held at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center. The "Parent Prom" was ...

Ramirez worked as a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation K-9 officer at San Quentin State Prison from 2013 until September 2022, when he was promoted to sergeant.

While working as a K-9 officer at San Quentin State Prison in the Bay Area, Avelino Ramirez began smuggling and hiding contraband in the facility’s “common areas” in October 2021, according ...

A former California prison K-9 sergeant pleaded guilty to a federal wire fraud charge for orchestrating a years-long scheme in which he smuggled and planted contraband inside correctional facilities, ...

A former state corrections officer pleaded guilty to charges that he planted contraband at San Quentin prison and elsewhere. Avelino Ramirez, 52, of Vallejo orchestrated the scheme so he could appear ...

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. - San Quentin's baseball team has been a prison yard institution for 123 seasons, but this year something happened for the first time. On a crisp, unusually clear Friday ...

Avelino Ramirez formerly worked as an investigative services unit K-9 officer at the San Quentin State Prison from 2013 to September 2022 before he was promoted to K-9 sergeant and worked at the ...

Adel Ramos was given a death penalty sentence for the killing of Sacramento police officer Tara O'Sullivan​ in June 2019, the ...

The Marin Shakespeare Company has brought Shakespeare to San Quentin for more than 20 years. "The people who are incarcerated need to be seen as human beings who we have a responsibility to try to ...

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Roniel Tolentino, right, and Avelino Ramirez, center, St. Quentin state prison K-9 officer and evaluator, prepare Richard Godinez, Valley State Prison K-9 officer, to ...

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Former Stockton Police Department Sgt. Nicholas Bloed was sentenced Monday to eight years in state prison and taken into custody in a Stockton courtroom. Although Bloed received an eight-year ...