CALIFORNIA law will prevent public libraries and prisons from arbitrarily banning books. As an African American who has spent ...

Rampant sexual abuse by guards at women’s prisons in California. An inmate suicide that went unnoticed for 18 hours in ...

The place is San Quentin Rehabilitation Center (formerly San Quentin State Prison), California’s oldest, and perhaps most infamous, penal institution, established in 1852. For two days in October, ...

For the past three years, she has been leading the Academic Peer Education Program (APEP) at San Quentin State Prison. Kahn is part of a team of community leaders who lead peer-driven classes that ...

Killers show no compassion for their victims. Why should California show compassion when these imprisoned killers become ...

Authorities say they have traced seven homicides — two in a California prison, five on the streets of Los Angeles County — to ...

(Audio by Ruth Dusseault/Bay City News. Licensing credits below) Reporter Steve Brooks, who is incarcerated at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, talks with members of the prison community about the ...

When I entered the adult prison system in the early 2000s, there were a little more than 163,000 people incarcerated in ...

Shakoor says things started to change during a period in San Quentin, the state’s oldest prison. Sitting on the edge of the San Francisco Bay and, until May 2024, home to the state’s death row ...

While organized from prisons, these gangs cause harm that extends everywhere—with one gang trafficking enough fentanyl to ...

W hether you’re a fan of classic country music or not, there’s no doubt you know who Johnny Cash is and could even name some of his most famous tunes. Cash got his breakthroug ...