San Quentin News

Faced with the prospect of less frequent rainstorms due to global warming, Marin Municipal Water District planners are considering a more conservative approach to drought projections.

Swine flu is the latest punishment for San Quentin prisoners. San Quentin State Prison has put approximately 800 prisoners under quarantine after four inmates were diagnosed with the H1N1 virus, more commonly known as swine flu.

Prison officials at San Quentin State Prison have quarantined 800 inmates after several prisoners came down with flu symptoms and a handful initially tested positive for the H1N1 virus.

WE'VE advocated, along with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, that the state consider selling surplus property and using the money to pay bills.

About 800 San Quentin State Prison inmates have been quarantined while officials investigate 30 suspected cases of swine flu.

Bill Babbitt holds photograph of his brother who was executed on San Quentin in 1999.

Bill Babbitt holds a photograph of his brother, Manny, who was executed at San Quentin in 1999, before he speaks at a hearing Tuesday on the state's new lethal injection procedures.

More than 100 speakers lined up Tuesday for their chance to weigh in on California's new proposed rules for executing condemned inmates at San Quentin State Prison.

The state hearing on new procedures for the death penalty got under was this morning in Sacramento with about 120 people gathered in a state auditorium, many of them there expressly to oppose capital punishment.

Twenty-year-old Michael Horner liked the deep blue shade and quick-release wheels of his new bike, but appreciated more what it meant for him.

A man on death row for the 1995 murder of his ex-wife's husband has died of natural causes.

From one ayatollah to another Willie Brown When I was speaker, they called me the Ayatollah of the Assembly.

Newsom enters San Quentin and thinks, "Someday all this can be mine." Many U.S. politicians have gone to prison over the years, and Mayor Gavin Newsom joined the trend today - although he got to leave after a few hours.

LAST week, my son's teacher sent home a mimeographed note that said, "There will be no homework and we will be asking students to bring favorite board games or books to share with their friends next week." I actually found her candor refreshing.

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. - Officials at San Quentin State Prison are investigating the death of a death row inmate who was convicted for the kidnap, rape and murder of a five-year-old girl in 1983.

One newspaper in Northern California is going against the national trend of shrinking print journalism.

A Marin County theater company is helping San Quentin State Prison inmates put on a Shakespeare play Monday for hundreds of their peers.

In this photo taken Wednesday June 3, 2009, Michael R. Harris, editor in chief of the San Quentin News, hands out copies of the newspaper to visiting criminal justice students from San Diego State University at San Quentin prison in San Quentin, Calif.

San Quentin graduates violence prevention class John Phillips, who described his profession as an embalmer, hugged fellow inmate Richard Poma after competing a violence prevention program offered by the Insight Prison Project at the state prison in San Quentin, Calif., on Friday, June 12, 2009.

It was another perfect day along the San Francisco Bay, the sun shining like new Sterling silver, and John Taylor was happily hunting weeds in the courtyard at San Quentin State Prison.