San Quentin, CA, Tuesday, March 5, 2024 - San Quentin SkunkWorks, a "criminal justice innovation lab," hosts a "one-of-a-kind chess event called 'Pawns to Progress.' A collaboration between San ...

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

Editor’s Note: This story is included in The Athletic’s Best of 2023. View the full list. SAN QUENTIN, Calif. — Chris Paul went straight to the domino table. He took a seat on a steel bench bolted to ...

For nearly three decades, the 49ers have returned to San Quentin to build connection, encourage growth, and engage in social ...

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

The sky is gray over California’s most notorious prison. Rain threatens. In the West Block Yard of San Quentin, a dozen inmates focus on their dogs. Chase Benoit and Travis Fendley are working with ...

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (KGO) -- James King is a former San Quentin inmate and the co-director of programs for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. He told ABC7's Karina Nova that he commends Governor ...

The San Quentin event will screen both new feature films that depict the prison experience and short projects made by incarcerated filmmakers. By Rebecca Keegan Senior Editor, Film The inaugural San ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ambitious and expensive plans for a dilapidated factory at San Quentin State Prison where inmates of one of the nation's most notorious lockups once built furniture, ...

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) — Visiting San Quentin, California's oldest prison once home to a gas chamber used to execute inmates on the nation's largest death row, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday touted a ...

SACRAMENTO -- The infamous state prison on San Francisco Bay that has been home to the largest death row population in the United States will be transformed into a lockup where less-dangerous ...

On Saturday mornings during baseball season at the San Quentin prison yard, 22 incarcerated athletes ditch their prison clothes to slip on black and orange baseball uniforms, a gift from the San ...