serving as the initial reception area for state prisoners. "If a judge sentences someone to prison, San Quentin is often the first place they will come. Then they are evaluated and sent somewhere ...

The Paper Trail is defining their identity as they build a legacy by empowering their community and recording their stories.

the only way he could experience the results of his work was by looking at photos and transcripts that his cocurator had printed out and sent to his cell at San Quentin State Prison. He was also ...

It wasn’t until after the National Weather Service issued an “all clear” that an email was sent out to the incarcerated population at San Quentin ... Pelican Bay State Prison, which opened ...

For the past three years, she has been leading the Academic Peer Education Program (APEP) at San Quentin State Prison. Kahn is part of a team of community leaders who lead peer-driven classes that ...

He was then placed on death row at San Quentin State Prison. Due to California's moratorium on the death penalty, no executions have been carried out in the state since 2006. Gov. Gavin Newsom ...

In 2002, Davis investigators learned they had a hit in Washington state: a felon named Richard Hirschfield who was already in prison for ... was imprisoned on San Quentin’s death row.

Students who enrolled last fall in Philosophy 214, The Social Contract, traveled not just across campus to get to class — they headed across the bay to San Quentin State Prison. The class brought ...

One of the group’s preliminary findings was that most incarcerated individuals — especially those whose first language isn’t ...

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 ...