Officials at San Quentin State Penitentiary are investigating the death of a 70-year-old inmate inside ... personnel from an ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...