Some officials say it’s time to rethink shared quarters for inmates because of the risk of violence and the detriment to ...

MARIN COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- Coronavirus cases are surging at San Quentin State Prison and there is now major concern for residents of Marin County, where the prison is located. Hospitals have filled ...

San Luis Obispo County Sheriff says that the man who escaped from San Quentin State Prison was has been taken into custody Saturday afternoon in Paso Robles. A San Quentin inmate, Shalom Mendoza, 21, ...

Amid a rapidly-spreading coronavirus outbreak that’s infected about a third of all people incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, a group of COVID-19 positive prisoners declared a hunger strike this ...

A minimum security inmate escaped from San Quentin State Prison on Thursday but was apprehended 12 miles north in Novato a few hours later, according to a prison spokesman. Demetrius Jefferson, 20, ...

It’s a sight you normally don’t see in a prison — inmates and visitors walking a red carpet, happily posing for photos that aren’t mug shots. That was the scene last week at Marin County’s San Quentin ...

Richard Stitely, a condemned inmate at San Quentin State Prison that was found unresponsive in his cell last week and pronounced dead, was confirmed Monday to have tested positive for COVID-19 as an ...

Everyone agrees San Quentin is overcrowded. It is supposed to house 3,300 prisoners; today there are nearly 5,000. For years the old hospital and the clinics have failed to meet the needs of the ...

Beth Fischgrund alleged in her lawsuit against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation that after she ...