POLITICAL REPRESENTATION HAS BEEN A STAPLE of the California prison system for more than 40 years. Like citizens in the free ...

For nearly three decades, the 49ers have returned to San Quentin to build connection, encourage growth, and engage in social ...

Alexander Mendez, who was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for stabbing two unhoused victims in an alley in Tulare in 2016, was denied parole after prosecutors secured a 5-year denial of parole ...

On January 1, 1958, Johnny Cash walked through the gates of San Quentin State Prison and performed for inmates.

Sixty-eight years ago today, Johnny Cash played his first-ever prison concert and unknowingly changed the country music world.

Inmates at San Quentin State Prison just cast their votes for president, and for Donald Trump, it’s a good thing those votes won’t count. Trump was trounced by Hillary Clinton in a mock election ...

If you’re serving hard time inside a California prison, you’ll often find yourself stuck in a cramped cell with a complete stranger. You hang a bedsheet to manufacture the semblance of privacy between ...

Merle Haggard wrote the title track of his fifth album for a former prison mate named Rabbit who invited him to escape San Quentin.