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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.
A former California prison K-9 sergeant pleaded guilty to a federal wire fraud charge for orchestrating a years-long scheme ...
Little-known museum inside San Quentin documents prison's unsettling history A small, unassuming building within the harsh concrete gates and extensive security of San Quentin Rehabilitation ...
A former San Quentin prison guard has been indicted for "finding" drugs, cell phones, tobacco and weapons that he had allegedly planted and then "pretended" to find himself in order to boost his ...
A former San Quentin prison guard has been indicted for "finding" drugs, cell phones, tobacco and weapons that he had allegedly planted and then "pretended" to find himself in order to boost his ...
San Quentin prison on lockdown as dozens suffer gastrointestinal illness. ... 28 prisoners and a correctional officer died. The prison's four cell blocks house some 3,000 people in total.
Visiting San Quentin, California’s oldest prison once home to a gas chamber used to execute inmates on the nation’s largest death row, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday touted a plan to overhaul the ...
Located inside of San Quentin's gates, the museum showcases exhibits spanning from the prison's founding in 1852 through the 1940s. Today, curator Jeff Craemer manages the museum which is open to ...
San Quentin State Prison was once known as “The Bastille by The Bay,” an enormous facility overlooking San Francisco Bay that housed the nation’s largest Death Row and was built in 1852 ...