POLITICAL REPRESENTATION HAS BEEN A STAPLE of the California prison system for more than 40 years. Like citizens in the free ...

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (KGO) -- ABC7 News I-Team Reporter Dan Noyes got a rare look inside San Quentin State prison ahead of this year's vote to abolish the death penalty in the state or to speed up the ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. About a month after I earned my parole and was released from High Desert State Prison in 2024, my buddy Kai Bannon ...

On January 1, 1958, Johnny Cash walked through the gates of San Quentin State Prison and performed for inmates.

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TWO MONTHS AFTER dancing with her father inside of San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, Tiara Embrey has died in a head-on traffic collision. She was 28. Steven Embrey received the devastating news ...

When Christine Yoo’s friend landed in prison with a life sentence — a wrongful conviction, she said — the filmmaker decided she wanted to make a movie about life inside prison. It was a topical leap ...

This year marks the 10th anniversary for San Quentin Rehabilitation Center's satellite chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists' Northern California Chapter. It's the first and only chapter ...

An emotional, first-ever father-daughter prom was recently held at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center. For some incarcerated participants, it was the first time they had met their daughter. The "Parent ...

Ronald Lum left San Quentin in July with a coronavirus outbreak raging behind him and three death letters in his hand. The letters’ authors were not, in fact, dead. One was a letter written to his ...