San Quentin saw a surge in COVID-19 cases that led to a virtual state of sickness and the loss of 29 lives at the prison. During the entire pandemic, these shower restrictions existed at San Quentin.

The inmate had been locked up in San Quentin for the past 24 years. At 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, prison staff members responded to ...

In 1957, he played to inmates at Huntsville State Prison in Texas, and followed that with his first concert at San Quentin, also in California. On New Year’s Day in 1959, as well as the same day ...