They ran for more than an hour and a half, but the winner sprinted ahead on the last lap to win by just eight seconds. Terry Phillips led most of the … [Read more...]

The Intramural Flag Football League (IFFL) began its first season last month with four teams, the Main Event, the San Quentin Raiders, the 49ers, and … [Read more...]

Federal officials are supporting a Native American claim that denying tobacco to prisoners for religious ceremonies is discriminatory. In a brief … [Read more...]

Christopher Schuhmacher has been elected chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Group of San Quentin. Other executive body members elected are Vice Chairman … [Read more...]

Los Angeles and San Francisco counties are taking different approaches to the state’s prison realignment plan. San Francisco officials view … [Read more...]

1. SAN QUENTIN – A Death Row inmate has been found dead in his San Quentin cell, apparently a suicide, Lt. Sam Robinson reports. Kenneth Friedman, 58, … [Read more...]

Thursday mornings you’ll find prison art project manager Carol Newborg supervising her open studio class in “Arts in Corrections,” where San Quentin … [Read more...]

Gov. Jerry Brown’s Proposition 30 ballot proposal is aimed at funding public schools, prison realignment, and reducing the state’s debt. A competing … [Read more...]

America needs skilled aerospace workers and one San Quentin program is designed to help fill the void, a NASA executive told a prisoners’ … [Read more...]