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

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.

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

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

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 ...

President Trump announced on Sunday that he’s directing the government to reopen Alcatraz, the notorious prison in the San Francisco Bay that stopped housing inmates more than 60 years ago. “I am ...

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 ...

Yet, unlike some of my conservative-minded friends, I am encouraged rather than appalled by the Newsom administration’s $239-million plan to remake the notorious San Quentin State Prison in ...