San Francisco Supervisor Bilal Mahmood asked the private prison company representatives about alleged neglect at a ...

Three convicted killers who are serving sentences at Salinas Valley State Prison in Central California are suspected of killing a fellow inmate during an attack Thursday morning. According to the ...

California's oldest prison is gearing up to host an entirely new cast of characters, including some Hollywood stars. San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, where a $239 million overhaul is underway, will ...

Early one morning in 2003, I woke up next to my girlfriend, Ambere, in the Venice Beach apartment that we shared. Sunlight flitted over the Pacific Ocean and into our bedroom. I ate breakfast and ...

The American Penal Press Contest was relaunched in 2025 after a 34-year hiatus. The San Quentin News, which is published by inmates at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, was awarded the title of ...

Only a handful of British citizens have ever been executed in the United States, though one is on death row in Texas at the moment: Linda Carty, who hails from Saint Kitts and Nevis, the Caribbean ...

Producer Scott Budnick ("Just Mercy," "The Hangover I II and III) presents the Best Documentary Pitch Award to Kevin D. Sawyer, who is also the newly appointed Editor in Chief of the San Quentin News.

Joseph Naso, the "Alphabet Killer," may have been paying twisted homage to a death row inmate. The assertion was made by retired FBI task force investigator Ken Mains, who is attempting to solve cold ...

The courtyard at San Quentin State Prison on July 26, 2023. California spends $133,000 a year incarcerating each prisoner but much less to help them reenter society. Photo by Semantha Norris, ...

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Everyone agrees San Quentin is overcrowded. It is supposed to house 3,300 prisoners; today there are nearly 5,000. For years the old hospital and the clinics have failed to meet the needs of the ...