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San Quentin inmates find community through tennis
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoStefan Schneider needed a nickname, or a handle as they call it in prison. So the inmates quickly began brainstorming […] The post San Quentin inmates...
Johnny Cash once sang about the 'living hell' at San Quentin State Prison. A new program there aims...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 6 months agoInmates walk in San Quentin state prison in San Quentin, California, June 8, 2012. Reuters San...
California will remake San Quentin prison, emphasizing rehab
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoVisiting San Quentin, California's oldest prison once home to a gas chamber used to execute inmates...
Newsom plans to transform San Quentin State Prison. Lawmakers and the public have had little input
Associated Press via AOL· 9 months agoCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom has ambitious and expensive plans for a dilapidated factory at San...
Death row inmates are being transferred out of San Quentin. Chino city officials are sounding the...
LA Times via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoA condemned inmate is led to his cell in San Quentin's Death Row. California is shutting down death...
San Quentin — California’s oldest prison — executed hundreds from Death Row over decades
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSan Quentin State Prison was once known as “The Bastille by The Bay,” an enormous facility...
Newsom’s $380M San Quentin State Prison revamp is underway. Here are some of the details
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 10 months agoLawmakers and activists initially balked at Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to use $380 million to build a...
How Gavin Newsom plans to transform California’s infamous San Quentin State Prison
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCalifornia’s infamous San Quentin State Prison is headed for a major transformation as Gov. Gavin...
San Quentin State Prison inmates taught filmmaking under Hollywood producer-backed scheme
The Independent via Yahoo News· 10 months agoPrisoners at San Quentin State Prison, the institution famously visited by Johnny Cash, are being...
California Gov. Newsom announces new vision for San Quentin State Prison: 'We have failed for too...
ABC News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCalifornia's oldest state prison will get overhauled into a "one-of-a-kind" correctional institution...