From San Quentin’s opening 170 years ago, people have been brought there before being moved to other prisons across California, serving as the initial reception area for state prisoners.

They were prospective applicants for CCWF’s pioneering new newspaper, put together in a newsroom next door, and Vasquez told ...

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San Quentin staff honored fallen Officer Jordan Wingate at a memorial run organized by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office.

Federal prosecutors alleged Ronaldo Ayala, reputed to be a powerful member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang, conspired with the Sinaloa cartel and offered to protect its notorious former leader, ...

When the 13th Amendment abolished slavery but allowed the exception as punishment for convicted crimes, California followed suit and immediately started using prisons like Folsom and San Quentin to ...