Some California policymakers and prison officials contend that offering more single-occupancy cells might serve the best ...

SAN QUENTIN — As the state prison system was preparing to hold a procession for a parole officer who was killed last week, a corrections officer’s throat was slashed here in an alleged attempted ...

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 ...

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Last March, pointing to the fact that many sentenced to death in America have later been found innocent, Gov. Gavin Newsom suspended all executions in California, calling the death penalty unfair and ...