President Donald Trump says he wants Alcatraz to be returned to use as a maximum-security prison. Here's what to know about ...

Speaking in the Oval Office Monday, Trump said that reopening the former prison ties to his campaign promise to lower violent ...

A prosecutor in California slammed a plan to build a rehabilitation center to replace San Quentin State Prison, saying the ...

Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled.

Under Governor Gavin Newsom's administration, California has shifted its death row policy, transferring condemned individuals ...

For all of its notoriety, the prison never housed more than a few hundred inmates at a time and was shut down because it was ...

Is Scott Peterson still alive? Scott is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole at Mule Creek State Prison ...

curated by formerly and currently incarcerated artists—many of whom developed their talents inside San Quentin State Prison. The exhibit is the latest project from Empowerment Avenue ...

Former San Quentin prisoner Albert “Ru-Al” Jones ... California prison officials transferred Jones to the state prison in Sacramento, where he remains. “Everybody in prison, we’re all ...

two later died in the gas chamber of the California State Prison at San Quentin. They were executed for their role in the death of a correctional officer during the "Battle of Alcatraz" escape ...