Former San Quentin prison guard sentenced for smuggling phones onto death row
A former guard at San Quentin State Prison was sentenced Friday to federal prison after he was convicted for smuggling phones onto death row, prosecutors said.
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A former guard at San Quentin State Prison was sentenced Friday to federal prison after he was convicted for smuggling phones onto death row, prosecutors said.
The Pulitzer Prize-nominated Ear Hustle podcast features stories of the daily realities of life inside California's San Quentin State Prison. Interview with Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor.
A co-host of "Ear Hustle," the Pulitzer Prize-nominated podcast produced behind bars, was released from San Quentin State Prison on Wednesday, a year after California Gov. Gavin Newsom commuted his sentence.
A prison inmate who spent more than 30 years on California's death row died early Wednesday of natural causes, state corrections officials said.
Scott Peterson has been moved off death row more than two years after the California Supreme Court overturned his death sentence for killing his pregnant wife two decades ago, corrections officials said Monday.
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.
Overcrowding, aging facilities and a lack of coordination led to nearly 80,000 COVID-19 cases across the state's prison system, according to a report from the University of California, San Francisco, and UC Berkeley.
Harvey L. Heishman III, a 74-year-old convicted murderer and rapist on death row at San Quentin State Prison, died Tuesday of natural causes at the prison infirmary, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced Wednesday.
