San Quentin News

A plan to designate the land at San Quentin State Prison as a "priority development area" for 1,500 or more homes drew fire from the Marin Conservation League as environmentalists urged county supervisors to scrap the idea.

The Belvedere City Council will consider zoning changes for the San Francisco Yacht Club's Cove House when it meets at 7:30 p.m. Monday at 450 San Rafael Ave.

Wesley Shermantine is an inmate on California's death row. Shermantine and his friend Loren Herzog were dubbed the "Speed Freak Killers" for a murder spree in the 1980s and 90s.

Inmate advocates question state's commitment to prison healthcare The judge who called California's medical care of inmates cruel and unusual punishment has ordered a plan to return control to the state.

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Authorities confirm a human skull has been found at a Calaveras County location where there is a search underway for other victims of San Joaquin County serial killers Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog.

One out of every four Californians has no medical insurance. But $2 billion in taxpayer money is being spent each year to provide medical care to California's prisoners.

Guards at San Quentin State Prison fired rifle shots and used pepper spray to break up an inmate riot that erupted Thursday in an exercise yard, authorities said.

Frank Souza will spend the rest of his life in prison for the San Quentin murder of one of Marin County's most notorious men.

Prison spokesman Gabe Walters said between 150 and 200 prisoners were involved in the Thursday morning riot.

San Quentin prison is under lock down following what is being described as a large scale incident involving between 100 and 150 inmates.

THERE IS NOTHING routine about endorsing the concept of some day turning San Quentin State Prison into a transit hub with 1,500 or more homes.

In this interview, author J. Patrick O'Connor discusses his newly released book Scapegoat: The Chino Hills Murders and The Framing of Kevin Cooper , explaining why he is convinced of Kevin Cooper's innocence.

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The death penalty will not be sought in the case of a convicted killer who admitted to killing a fellow San Quentin inmate.

A San Jose man already serving a life sentence for killing a homeless man in Willow Glen pleaded guilty Thursday to the stabbing death of a fellow San Quentin inmate in a deal that will allow him to avoid the death penalty.

Since California voters reinstated the death penalty in 1978, the state has spent more than $4 billion on death penalty cases and executed 13 prisoners.

A tip from an inmate on death row may make for a major discovery in the case of a missing 9-year-old girl who was kidnapped 23 years ago.

Edward Schaefer, serving a life sentence in San Quentin for killing 9-year-old Novato girl on his motorcycle, killed inside San Quentin on Monday by a fellow inmate.

Loren Herzog and Wesley Shermantine, the so-called "Speed Freak Killers," were convicted in 2001 of four murders but are suspected in many more.