As a member of the Veterans Group at San Quentin, we’re allowed to wear distinctive royal blue hats emblazoned with its ...

But what could they do? San Quentin Prison, jutting into the Bay 10 miles above San Francisco, had space for only 3,000 inmates. Crammed into it were nearly 6,000, world’s biggest prison population.

Allen Fong, 33, and his co-defendants are alleged members of the Mexican Mafia, also known as La eMe, an organized crime outfit which began in Folson Prison and is involved in extortion, arson, ...

Two inmates who were incarcerated at the San Quentin prison in Marin County are co-defendants of Fong-- Ronaldo Mudrana Ayala, 74, also known as "OG, "El Professor," and "Profe," and Angel Anthony ...

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 Prison ...

The Aryan Brotherhood gang formed in 1964 in California’s San Quentin prison, as the state carceral system desegregated and racial conflict broke out between the newly integrated inmates.

An armed California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officer stands guard at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, formerly San Quentin State Prison. California is ... women’s prisons in ...