There’s an utterly new feeling at San Quentin’s Death Row these days, and it’s not just for the people running the place. You can feel it like electricity all up and down the grim ...

The state’s plans to turn San Quentin prison into a model rehabilitation center means moving death row inmates to other high-security prisons. Many have already been moved out of the bayfront ...

Instead of facing the gas chamber at San Quentin, the reputed Mexican Mafia member turned death row into a base of power, law enforcement authorities and gang defectors say, collecting extortion ...

San Quentin State Prison is one of North America's most notorious jails. It has held convicts like Charles Manson, and today it houses the largest death row population in the USA. It is here that ...

the man who is on death row for a murder he committed in 1993 in Kern County, was resentenced to death on Tuesday. Lightsey, 71, remains incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison after being ...

Ng, now 60, was sentenced to death and remains on death row at San Quentin State Prison. In a 1999 jailhouse interview following his conviction, Ng told The Bee, Lake killed all the victims.

The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The ...

Chino city leaders worry that the decaying infrastructure of the prison is not secure enough to hold death row inmates. The mayor says the most recent escape happened in 2018. Judge temporarily ...

"Democracy needs everyone and we're a part of the society," said Haines, who is incarcerated at San Quentin. "The fact that we're incarcerated, we're still American citizens. We care about our ...