Prison literature has a long and rich history, stretching back to Jack London, Nelson Algren and Malcolm X. The genre includes powerful work from prisoners incarcerated on death row, which is ...

Why a former San Quentin death-row inmate’s manuscripts are up for sale for $80,000 by a Sebastopol bookseller. Former San Quentin prisoner Albert “Ru-Al” Jones reached out to Ben Kinmont ...

Journalists were shown San Quentin State Prison’s crowded and noisy East Block — largely unchanged since its construction in 1930 — and the newly opened death row psychiatric ward, the first ...

While California has not executed a death row inmate since 2006, an out-of-control COVID-19 outbreak at San Quentin State Prison may have contributed to the death of a fifth condemned inmate on ...

Daniel Landry landed in prison in 1986 and has been on Death Row since 2001 for killing other inmates. MORE: Here's a look at the transformation of San Quentin State Prison He says being locked up ...

A condemned inmate stands with handcuffs on as he prepares to be released from the exercise yard back to his cell at San Quentin State Prison's death row on August 15, 2016 in San Quentin, California.

Clifford Bolden, 65, was the last San Francisco person on death row at San Quentin State Prison. On Tuesday, a judge approved a plea deal resentencing him to 47 years to life, ...

The state of California is moving to dismantle and convert San Quentin Prison’s death row, the largest in the United States, into a “positive, healing environment.” Gov. Gavin New… ...

A condemned inmate stands with handcuffs on as he prepares to be released from the exercise yard back to his cell at San Quentin State Prison's death row on August 15, 2016 in San Quentin, California.

CHINO, Calif. -- Condemned inmates on San Quentin's death row will instead live out their lives in prisons like the California Institution for Men in Chino. The aging prison in San Bernardino ...

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. - A death row inmate at the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center passed away over the weekend, prison officials said Wednesday. Melvin Turner was pronounced dead at 6:04 p.m ...

More than a dozen inmates have died at California’s San Quentin State Prison — including eight on death row — since June from COVID-19, the state’s corrections department said thi… ...