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SAN QUENTIN, Calif. - San Quentin's baseball team has been a prison yard institution for 123 seasons, but this year something happened for the first time. On a crisp, unusually clear Friday ...
Yet, unlike some of my conservative-minded friends, I am encouraged rather than appalled by the Newsom administration’s $239-million plan to remake the notorious San Quentin State Prison in ...
It looks the same from the outside; its forbidding facade towers overhead like a medieval castle. But a lot of people don't realize that San Quentin isn't what it used to be. It's no longer a ...
There were big smiles, hugs, tears and lots of tail wagging inside San Quentin’s prison recently. SAN QUENTIN, Calif. — Hugs, tears, barking and tail wagging abounded at San Quentin’s prison ...
The San Quentin Film Festival, which in October became the world’s first-ever film festival inside of a prison, is returning for a second year. The festival was founded by Rahsaan “New York ...
Located inside of San Quentin's gates, the museum showcases exhibits spanning from the prison's founding in 1852 through the 1940s. Today, curator Jeff Craemer manages the museum which is open to ...
Memorably described as "living hell" by Johnny Cash, San Quentin has long been one of the USA's most infamous prisons. However, it's now receiving a Nordic-style makeover that will focus on ...
Danish architecture studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen and American studio DLR Group have been selected to redesign California's San Quentin State Prison into a rehabilitation centre that will utilise ...
On Saturday mornings during baseball season at the San Quentin prison yard, 22 incarcerated athletes ditch their prison clothes to slip on black and orange baseball uniforms, a gift from the San ...
Samuel L. Jackson and I in the courtyard of the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center. Phil Bray for San Quentin FIlm Festival But no, he’s not taping a Capital One commercial. I should mention that ...
(KRON) — A convicted child molester was found dead inside his cell on Tuesday at San Quentin state prison in Marin County. Inmate Mark Squires’ death is being investigated as a homicide ...