Rampant sexual abuse by guards at women’s prisons in California. An inmate suicide that went unnoticed for 18 hours in ...

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. — Federal prosecutors have been uncovering alleged crimes within the walls of California’s oldest prison, ...

A lifelong escape artist, Forrest Tucker, ends up in San Quentin prison. But despite his advanced age, he manages to engineer one of the most audacious prison breaks of all time. See more in this clip ...

A lifelong escape artist, Forrest Tucker, ends up in San Quentin prison. Despite his advanced age, he manages to engineer one of the most audacious prison breaks of all time.

Usually, when "chicken hindquarters" is on the dinner menu at San Quentin, it's good news. "It's a very popular meal in prison," Aaron Ramzy, who is incarcerated there, told Business Insider in a ...

San Quentin Prison, dating to 1852 ... Estill also had to deal with riots, multiple inmate escapes and reports of inhumane prison conditions, malfeasance and mismanagement. Finally, he turned ...

Mendoza speaks with Insider about rivalry with the Mexican Mafia and Aryan Brotherhood, corrupt prison guards, attacks, and uprisings. He offers his opinions on San Quentin reform and rehabilitation.

California prison officials must face claims that they callously disregarded inmates’ constitutional rights by orchestrating a prison transfer that caused a deadly Covid-19 outbreak at San Quentin.

In 1947, a struggling Hollywood film — an Oscar nominee for best picture despite its box office failure — was shown to 300 incarcerated men at the San Quentin prison in California. For years ...