San Joaquin County "Speed Freak Killer" Wesley Shermantine dies in prison at 60
Shermantine and Loren Herzog were tied to killings and disappearances across the San Joaquin Valley dating back to the 1980s.
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Shermantine and Loren Herzog were tied to killings and disappearances across the San Joaquin Valley dating back to the 1980s.
A former California correctional officer is facing federal prison after pleading guilty to a scheme where he planted contraband that he pretended to discover, in order to obtain a promotion, prosecutors said.
In a unique alliance, prisoners at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center and California district attorneys are championing legislation to reform California's prison system by introducing a pilot program for single-occupancy cells.
A small, unassuming building within the harsh concrete gates and extensive security of San Quentin Rehabilitation Center is open to the public, filled with often unsettling artifacts from the history of California's most infamous prison.
Authorities with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation are investigating the death of an incarcerated person at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center earlier this week as a homicide, officials said.
California Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday announced the progress in transforming San Quentin State Prison into new education facility has reached a significant milestone.
Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price said her office is weighing their options after a federal judge overturned the murder conviction of a man who was on death row for 33 years, due to prosecutorial misconduct.
San Quentin inmates said raising puppies to become service dogs gave them an avenue to do good and has helped change their lives.
An advisory council says California Gov. Gavin Newsom should slash by at least a third the cost of his $360 million plan to build a campus with classrooms in the notorious San Quentin State Prison.
A California couple who spent 20 years visiting and exchanging letters with a notorious serial killer on San Quentin's death row is now sharing their story following his death in September.
Serial killer Douglas Daniel Clark, who was sentenced to death for six grisly murders in California during the early 1980s, has died of natural causes, officials said Thursday. He was 75.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is planning to spend $360 million demolishing a sprawling former furniture factory at San Quentin State Prison and replacing it with something reminiscent of a college campus.
A new training program at San Quentin State Prison has inmates training puppies to eventually become service dogs.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to transform a state lockup that is home to the nation's largest number of death row inmates into a facility where prisoners can receive education, training and rehabilitation.
A prison inmate who spent more than 30 years on California's death row for beating to death a woman and her 2-year-old daughter during a burglary died early Wednesday of natural causes, state corrections officials said.
A California inmate sentenced to death for killing a bartender during a robbery has died at an outside hospital of natural causes, prison officials said Monday.
