Christopher Lightsey, the man who is on death row for a murder he committed in 1993 in Kern County, was resentenced to death ...

Officials at San Quentin State Penitentiary are investigating the death of a 70-year-old inmate inside his cell as homicide, ...

The inmate had been locked up in San Quentin for the past 24 years. At 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, prison staff members responded to ...

Rampant sexual abuse by guards at women’s prisons in California. An inmate suicide that went unnoticed for 18 hours in Washington state. Multiple jail breaks in Pennsylvania. Prisons and jails across ...

Listen To This: Ear Hustle is made in San Quentin for hustlers everywhere One of the best podcasts of 2017 is returning for a second season on March 14.

U.S. District Judge William Orrick III refused to dismiss a spate of lawsuits from inmates contending that state prison medical staff and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ...

Johnny Cash revealed the one thing about doing prison concerts that surprised him the most, and no, it wasn't the inmates' ...

formerly San Quentin State Prison. California is among the states with an independent oversight office that monitors state correctional facilities. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Rampant sexual abuse ...

We come full circle on a story we first covered in 2016 when we visited the exercise yard at San Quentin State prison in California. It houses the highest number of death row inmates in America ...

California is transferring everyone on death row at San Quentin prison to other places, as it tries to reinvent the state's most notorious facility as a rehabilitation centre. Many in this group ...

Inspired by the book "The New Jim Crow" which he read earlier this year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg visited California's San Quentin State ... prison conditions are like by talking to inmates ...

An incarcerated San Mateo man was one of five alleged gang members federally indicted on racketeering and drug offenses that were carried out by the Mexican Mafia prison gang, the U.S. Department of ...