I worked inside California’s prisons for 23 years. Does rehabilitation work in prisons? Yes, it does, and we have the data to ...

At a recent symposium at San Quentin prison, a group of district attorneys from across California met with inmates to talk ...

Associate warden Richard Nelson helped create the San Quentin Museum in 1993 while working at the prison. Located inside of San Quentin's gates, the museum showcases exhibits spanning from the ...

Gavin Newsom announced in March 2023 to reimagine prison life, starting at San Quentin. The changes are modeled after prison operations in Norway and other Scandinavian countries, where ...

Gavin Newsom announced in March 2023 to reimagine prison life, starting at San Quentin. The changes are modeled after prison operations in Norway and other Scandinavian countries, where ...

Fuck. My first day in prison, and I get jumped. How did I get here? It was my first day at San Quentin but it wasn’t my first day in prison. That had happened years ago, when I was just four ...

Denis Akbari, a Berkeley Journalism student, volunteered with the San Quentin News and is now working with Harvard-Yale IPIPS ...

Rules like that come with the territory when you’re planning the world’s first-ever film festival inside a prison. The San Quentin Film Festival, taking place Oct. 10-11 at the San Quentin ...

a visitor might briefly forget they’re inside a prison. This is the San Quentin Field of Dreams, a baseball field at California’s oldest prison and the home field for what’s believed to be ...

Gavin Newsom announced in March 2023 to reimagine prison life, starting at San Quentin. The changes are modeled after prison operations in Norway and other Scandinavian countries, where ...

Gavin Newsom announced in March 2023 to reimagine prison life, starting at San Quentin. The changes are modeled after prison operations in Norway and other Scandinavian countries, where ...