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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom's planned transformation of San Quentin State Prison into a rehabilitation facility after decades as the home for death row inmates is being ...

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (RNS) — 'I’m making a promise to never return to bloodshed or drugs,' one said.

In August 1975, the Frankie Miller Band played a gig at California State Prison as rival gangs edgily eyed each other up ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reforming a bad prison is as delicate and dangerous a job as tinkering with the mechanism of a faulty bomb. For 88 years, California ran its fortress-like San Quentin penitentiary by looking the other ...

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, ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An advisory council hand-picked by California Gov. Gavin Newsom recommended Friday that the governor slash by at least a third the cost of a $360 million project ...

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, ...

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