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 ...

When Clinton Truman Duffy became warden back in 1940 ... got the job because of public revulsion at the prison’s sadism and corruption. San Quentin seemed to need a lion tamer, and Duffy ...

At that the other three, all wounded, marched out with hands in air and the most sensational break in San Quentin’s history was over. Back in the prison hospital, where Warden Holohan lay ...

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 ...

Mendoza speaks with Insider about rivalry with the Mexican Mafia and Aryan Brotherhood, corrupt prison guards, attacks, and uprisings. He offers his opinions on San Quentin reform and rehabilitation.

I used to have the chili con carne recipe from San Quentin Prison; the warden sent it to me in the 1960s when I worked at Howard Johnson's. Unfortunately, I lost it, but it was very similar to this ...

Arnie Judlow, an inmate at San Quentin prison serving a life sentence for murder, devises a daring plan with his wife and his brother Bill to help him escape, part of which involves Bill and Arnie ...