San Quentin prison

Prison officials at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County say coronavirus cases at the facility have fallen from 2,200 to just 173.

Kim Kardashian West, who is studying to become a lawyer, met with a death-row inmate at San Quentin Prison Thursday. Kardashian met with inmate Kevin Cooper. She later tweeted out a photo of him.

A California judge, citing a new state law, overturned a prison inmate’s murder conviction and ordered him released from custody on Friday.

After seven years in prison, newly-released inmate Harry Smith suited up in a blue and gold uniform and took to the court of the Golden State Warriors training facility in Oakland — reigniting pursuit of a dream that seemingly died when a domestic violence conviction sent him to San Quentin Prison in 2011.

A man who spent nearly 25 years on California’s death row for raping and killing a toddler before his conviction was overturned won’t be retried and has been freed Thursday. Vicente Benavides Figueroa, 68, remained in prison even though the state Supreme Court last month overturned his 1993 conviction on grounds that medical testimony at his trial was false.

Scott Peterson has revealed his thoughts after being convicted in 2004 for murdering his wife Laci Peterson and their unborn son. A new documentary from A&E captured statements from Peterson, who currently awaits the death penalty in San Quentin Prison.

San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon has been quietly leading his team into San Quentin State Prison for face to face meetings with the men locked up inside. It’s an effort to humanize the criminal justice system, improve rehabilitation efforts, and push the evolution of criminal prosecutors.