San Quentin State Prison News

A guard checks cells on California's death row at San Quentin State Prison. The condemned live in single cells that are slightly larger than the two-bunk, maximum-security confines elsewhere, they have better access to telephones and they have 'contact visits' in plexiglass booths by themselves rather than in communal halls as in other ...

The so-called I-5 Strangler was sentenced Thursday to six consecutive life sentences after pleading guilty to six Northern California killings in an effort to avoid the death penalty.

Divers for the all-volunteer DART team now have a sonar device that will help them rescue people in danger of drowning or aid in a safe recovery of a body.

Does San Quentin need a new Death Row? Calling it the 'Cadillac Death Row', Assemblymen Jared Huffman voiced his strong opposition at a recent public forum, to plans to build a new $400 million expansion of the Death Row facility on the western grounds of San Quentin State Prison.

Every day is the Day of the Dead and Halloween for Cathee Shultz and J.D. Healy.

I was honored to take my first look inside San Quentin State Prison on August 26th, 2009, while attending Project s Student Acknowledgement & Check Presentation Event.

Fresno, CA- Fresno Police officers say years of persistence have paid off as they believe, they have solved a 30-year-old murder case.

San Francisco police say the infamous serial killer known as the "Night Stalker" is a suspect in a 1984 San Francisco homicide of a nine-year old girl.

IT WAS a cold night and a long trip, and the only way Bob Wootton could get to Fayetteville, Arkansas, was by hitching a ride in the back of an old pick-up truck.

About these three documents: Three searing broadsides advertising an event to protest the execution by electric chair of Daniel Roberts, a prisoner at San Quentin State Prison.

Allison Hoover Bartlett, author of "The Man Who Loved Books Too Much," will read from her book Oct.

The man who died after being subdued by tasers Monday evening has been identified by the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office as Christopher John Belknap, 36.

Authorities say a man who died Monday after being subdued by police with Taser stun guns had been released from San Quentin State Prison two days earlier.

Arraignment, the calling of a person before a court of law to answer a criminal charge.

Colter White with fellow honor society members at Cabrillo College. Courtesy photo.

The Orange County Fairgrounds was placed on the auction block Thursday in an attempt to cut into the state deficit.

A Cabrillo College honor student's first bid for freedom fell short Monday, his lawyer said.

Prisoners of Conscience Committee Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. preaches "One Prisoner, One Contact" because he knows from experience how lonely life behind enemy lines can be and how a letter from a friend - a pen pal - can liberate mind and spirit.

Boulder Creek resident and Cabrillo College student Colter White was sent to San Quentin State Prison after a man in his Narcotics Anonymous group claimed Colter assaulted him in the Live Oak area last week.

From the San Francisco Chronicle : Killer Groupies an unexplained mystery Stefan Tomik, Chronicle Staff Writer Even in his death row cell, satanic serial killer and rapist Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker,"receives bags of mail.