Officials at San Quentin State Penitentiary are investigating the death of a 70-year-old inmate inside his cell as homicide, ...

An incarcerated San Mateo man was one of five alleged gang members federally indicted on racketeering and drug offenses that were carried out by the Mexican Mafia prison gang, the U.S. Department of ...

Johnny Cash revealed the one thing about doing prison concerts that surprised him the most, and no, it wasn't the inmates' ...

Authorities say they have traced seven homicides — two in a California prison, five on the streets of Los Angeles County — to ...

Hundreds of Californian prisoners have been deployed to help tackle the fires devastating the Los Angeles area. With ...

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

California is transferring everyone on death row at San Quentin prison to other places, as it tries to reinvent the state's most notorious facility as a rehabilitation centre. Many in this group ...

When I entered the adult prison system in the early 2000s, there were a little more than 163,000 people incarcerated in California. I was just another one that had taken on a prison number — ...

During this awards season, movies like the Colman Domingo-starring Sing Sing are using innovative methods to generate buzz.

We come full circle on a story we first covered in 2016 when we visited the exercise yard at San Quentin State prison in California. It houses the highest number of death row inmates in America ...