Condemned prisoners on California's death row are partly filling their time by watching pornography and engaging in lewd conversations using taxpayer-funded tablets as the state continues its shift ...

California's oldest prison once housed the largest death row in the nation. The correctional facility formerly known as San Quentin State Prison housed some of the Golden State's most notorious ...

San Quentin prisoners serving life sentences for East Bay crimes are donating supplies and building furniture for a Richmond ...

The case, a direct appeal to the state highest court, says the death penalty is unconstitutional because it is applied in a ...

For decades, San Quentin stood as a symbol of America's harshest era of incarceration, housing California's death row and ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom was slammed over his attempts to overhaul the state's massive prison system, which includes giving inmates devices that allow them to watch pornography. Newsom placed a ...

Twenty-four years after a Yosemite lodge handyman was sentenced to death for the brutal murders of a Eureka mother, her daughter and a family friend from Argentina during what was supposed to be a ...

A guard at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, formerly known as San Quentin State Prison, has admitted taking over $100,000 in bribes in exchange for smuggling methamphetamine, marijuana and tobacco ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued a stay of execution for death row inmate Ramiro Rubi Ibarra more than five years ...