Not only is Newsom aiming for a more humane environment at the prison, but emptying Death Row saves money. The average prisoner in San Quentin costs the state around $60,000 a year, but those on ...

Melvin Turner, a death row inmate at the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, died over the weekend, prison officials said Wednesday. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ...

Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty. California should join them in ending state-sponsored executions.

The state’s plans to turn San Quentin prison into a model rehabilitation center means moving death row inmates to other high-security prisons. Many have already been moved out of the bayfront ...

My first day in prison, and I get jumped. How did I get here? It was my first day at San Quentin but it wasn ... I would choose life over death. I did what I’d done as a Marine recruit.

San Quentin State Prison is one of North America's most notorious jails. It has held convicts like Charles Manson, and today it houses the largest death row population in the USA. It is here that ...

Christopher Lightsey, the man who is on death row for a murder he committed in 1993 in Kern County, was resentenced to death on Tuesday. Lightsey, 71, remains incarcerated at San Quentin State ...

Ayala, who was transferred last year from San Quentin to Centinela state prison as Gov. Gavin Newsom shut down death row, has yet to enter a plea. It wasn't clear Friday whether he was represented ...