I HAVE BEEN IN PRISON for more than 30 years. When I came to prison, the corrections goal was isolation, retribution, and punishment. In the past decade, ...

Three forthcoming education and vocational training buildings by SHL and DLR Group stand to add new amenities at San Quentin, ...

How to Survive shares six survival tricks learned inside San Quentin prison and how they apply to extreme situations. They offer practical advice on staying safe in confined, high-risk environments.

Last spring, Governor Newsom, alongside lawmakers, survivors of crime and victim advocates, and civil rights leaders, announced that San Quentin State Prison — the oldest and most notorious prison in ...

The reopening of a minimum security prison near Los Lunas has been a literal breath of fresh air for the inmates who qualify ...

State prison officials had already announced their intention to roll out a pilot program for hundreds of inmates with personality disorders who don't require inpatient care. But the state's lawyers ...

Newsom announced the initiative just over two years ago, beginning with the transformation of the notorious San Quentin State Prison, previously the country’s largest death row facility, into a ...

Critics say the California Model, a prison reform plan, has created more dangerous environments for correctional staff, despite improvements in some prisons.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday that more than 1,000 inmates at San Quentin State Prison have tested positive for the coronavirus.

Parts of Marin County are within the tsunami map zone, which makes San Quentin’s population particularly vulnerable. It can happen here. ... In 1964, another tsunami hit Crescent City and killed 11 ...

San Quentin State Prison is California's oldest prison and once contained the state's only death row until Newsom's moratorium on the policy in 2019. Starting in 2024, death row inmates are now ...