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An emotional, first-ever father-daughter prom was recently held at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center. The "Parent Prom" was ...
A Sacramento judge on Friday formally imposed the death penalty for Adel Ramos, who pleaded guilty to the ambush killing of ...
Three forthcoming education and vocational training buildings by SHL and DLR Group stand to add new amenities at San Quentin, ...
In the following months, hundreds of death row inmates fell sick as COVID-19 swept through San Quentin State Prison's east block, the crowded warren of concrete and iron cells, stacked five ...
By Salvador Hernandez Officials in San Bernardino County say they are outraged after dozens of death row inmates were transferred from San Quentin State Prison to Chino. In a series of press ...
The prison currently houses the fifth-highest number of condemned inmates outside San Quentin in the state. At least four of them now at Donovan were sent to death row from San Diego County.
The state’s last execution was on Jan. 17, 2006. In 2019, Newsom signed an executive order issuing a moratorium on the state’s death penalty by giving a reprieve to all those sentenced to death.
SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (Gray News) - California’s notorious San Quentin is clearing out its death row inmates as the maximum-security prison transforms into a rehabilitation center.
SAN QUENTIN, Calif. — San Quentin State Prison has always been home to those responsible for the most horrific suffering, but change in its infamous death row block is coming.
SAN QUENTIN, Calif. - San Quentin State Prison is in the process of clearing out death row after Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered it to be shut down. San Quentin holds about 3,000 convicted criminals ...
San Quentin’s infamous death row is facing its own death sentence. The California Department of Corrections (CDCR) has now begun transferring death row inmates to other prisons across the state ...