Civil rights advocates are urging California to make Clarence Ray Allen's execution the last by permanently ending the ...

Newsom’s past actions have made it clear he deplores capital punishment as deeply as many civil rights advocates,” writes ...

More than 1,800 inmates and staff have been infected with the virus. San Quentin State Prison in California has erected tents and is converting a warehouse to treat a coronavirus outbreak that's ...

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

SAN QUENTIN, California (KPIX) — San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, formerly known as San Quentin State Prison, was known as America’s most dangerous prison. Now it’s working to help inmates learn ...

SAN QUENTIN -- Two convicted Southern California killers, Andrew Urdiales and Virendra Govin, were found dead in their cells in San Quentin over the weekend in apparent suicides. The two were housed ...