EARLY ONE MONDAY MORNING in May, Vincent O’Bannon was dropped off outside the gates of San Quentin Rehabilitation Center after serving more than 15 years in prison. He was convicted of second-degree ...

For all of its notoriety, the prison never housed more than a few hundred inmates at a time and was shut down because it was ...

President Donald Trump says he wants Alcatraz to be returned to use as a maximum-security prison. Here's what to know about ...

A timeline of Jon Keith Miller's criminal history is told with the help of court documents and images. Miller was convicted ...

BIG STONE GAP, Va. (AP) — An attack by inmates at a Virginia prison injured five guards, according to state corrections officials who said most of the assailants were MS-13 gang members who ...

PARIS (AP) — Anti-organized crime specialist investigators probing a wave of attacks on prisons and prison staff in France are looking at the possible involvement of a notorious drug cartel ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — An elderly man has been sentenced to prison for killing his wife and dismembering her more than 20 years ago, San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan announced.

Founded 60 years ago at San Quentin, the Aryan Brotherhood has in recent years sought to evolve beyond a prison gang to take over rackets on the street, where PEN1 has served as its front line ...

A man who was holding his infant daughter when he was shot by a San Diego police officer ... Thursday to 14 years and eight months in state prison. Steffon Nutall, 30, was shot May 19 after ...

David Carpenter, in his 90s, was the oldest inmate on San Quentin's death row before it was dismantled and the condemned men transferred to other prisons. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) ...

Sad as it may sound, he said, getting sent to San Quentin “was the best thing that ever happened to me.” “I went to prison with the idea of, No. 1, finding God, and if I could find God ...