East Bay Times3d
Now two San Quentin prison staffers have been indicted over past two months
SAN QUENTIN — Federal prosecutors have been uncovering alleged crimes within the walls of California’s oldest prison, but ...
Jury says it’s split over death penalty for Sacramento cop’s killer. What happens next?
The jury of seven women and five men told Judge James Arguelles that they were split on whether Adel Sambrano Ramos should be ...
Cost of seeking death penalty is high in California — but the state doesn’t conduct executions
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Sacramento police rookie Tara O’Sullivan’s killer — but at what cost?
KSAT3h
“Actually innocent”: Judge recommends overturning death row inmate Melissa Lucio’s conviction, sending case to Texas high court
The Cameron County judge also found the state relied on false testimony during her capital murder trial, according to court ...
Variety29d
‘There Should Be No Prisons,’ Filmmakers Tell Incarcerated Men at San Quentin Film Festival
We’re at the oldest prison ... in San Quentin try again and again to make it home before their illnesses consume them. But as much as “Dying Alone” is about literal death, it’s about ...
Mercury News3d
Crime and Public Safety
SAN QUENTIN — Federal prosecutors have been uncovering alleged crimes within the walls of California’s oldest prison, but they say the perpetrators had been living in the free world.
FOX 5 Atlanta8d
Former San Quentin K-9 officer indicted for planting contraband, 'pretending' to find
SAN QUENTIN, Calif. - A former San Quentin prison guard has been indicted for "finding" drugs, cell phones, tobacco and weapons that he had allegedly planted and then "pretended" to find himself ...
Courthouse News Service14d
Prisoner fights for public information access before hesitant Seventh Circuit panel
A condemned inmate is led out of his east block cell on death row at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. in 2016. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) CHICAGO (CN) — A federal inmate who wants ...
Yahoo28d
'Yacht Killer' got taxpayer-funded sex change while on death row after Harris' 'behind the scenes' policy work
The killer had been taking female hormones since first arriving on death row in San Quentin on April 16 ... so that every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access to the medical ...
American Songwriter8d
Merle Haggard Recalled Seeing Johnny Cash Perform While Behind Bars in California’s Infamous San Quentin Prison
Dan Rather asked if it was true that Merle Haggard saw Johnny Cash perform while he was in prison. Haggard told him that it was true. However, they didn’t meet one another until years later. “He ...
SanLuisObispo7d
Cost of seeking death penalty is high in California — but the state doesn’t conduct executions
A new lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison is displayed during a 2010 ... with capital sentences have been moved off of Death Row and placed in regular high-security prisons ...
Mercury News29d
Crime and Public Safety
Two state prison inmates convicted of murdering a San Quentin officer in 1985 have lost ... professionals charged in Alameda County jail death Johnson and Woodard filed petitions for resentencing ...