The jury of seven women and five men told Judge James Arguelles that they were split on whether Adel Sambrano Ramos should be ...

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Sacramento police rookie Tara O’Sullivan’s killer — but at what cost?

Franklin, a seemingly unassuming grandfather and a former LAPD mechanic and sanitation worker, was finally caught in 2010 ...

In 1977, Rodney Alcala was out of prison and living in New York ... And again, the sentence was death. Alcala had been on San Quentin's death row since 1980. Now, with a second conviction and a second ...

OPINION- Crime has been a see-saw issue in California for most of the last 40 years. Leniency was the vogue for awhile recently. But now the balance is back to getting tougher, as polls this fall ...

SAN QUENTIN — Federal prosecutors have been uncovering alleged crimes within the walls of California’s oldest prison, but ...

A former officer at San Quentin prison has been indicted over allegations he planted contraband in a scheme to "discover" it himself, increase his overtime pay and get promoted to sergeant, according ...

A former San Quentin prison guard has been indicted for "finding" drugs, cell phones, tobacco and weapons that he had ...

Dan Rather asked if it was true that Merle Haggard saw Johnny Cash perform while he was in prison. Haggard told him that it was true. However, they didn’t meet one another until years later. “He ...

People serving time in federal prisons are denied the right to vote, but they still care about elections. Today, we go inside ...

The Texas Supreme Court is considering whether a legislative subpoena of a death row inmate infringed on the executive branch ...