Musician Johnny Cash on stage with his band, in concert at San Quentin State Prison, California, February 24th 1969.
An armed guard maintains security as lunch time starts in San Quentin State Prison which is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation...
Guard stands at the entrance to the California State Prison at San Quentin January 22, 2007 in San Quentin, California. The U.S. Supreme court threw...
An aerial view San Quentin State Prison on July 08, 2020 in San Quentin, California. Over 1,400 inmates and staff at San Quentin State Prison have...
View of a new emergency care facility that was erected to treat inmates infected with COVID-19 at San Quentin State Prison on July 08, 2020 in San...
Major disturbance' broke out August 21 at San Quentin Prison after two convicts, one of them George Jackson , a Soledad Brother, tried to escape from...
This room is the bottom floor of a San Quentin cell block built in 1850. Now it houses 39 prisoners. There are no toilet facilities, and poor...
Caryl Chessman, who was convicted on 17 counts of robbery, kidnapping, and rape, and who delayed his execution in the California gas chamber eight...
An exterior view of San Quentin State Prison on June 21, 2020 in San Quentin, California. San Quentin State Prison is experiencing an outbreak of...
San Quentin, CA- Picture taken during the annual New Year's vaudeville show at California's state prison, when 5500 prisoners gathered in a large...
San Quentin, CA- Sirhan Sirhan became Convict No. B21014 at San Quentin Prison 5/23. Sirhan's official prison photo is shown here. The 25-year-old...
Charles Manson reads a statement at his parole hearing in San Quentin. He was turned down for parole for the 6th time.
The Sirhan Area is ready on San Quentin Prison's death row for the killer of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. The address: Cell 33, South Side, condemned...
Author Truman Capote went to San Quentin Prison recently to do a TV documentary on capital punishment. Before he was allowed into the death row area...
Interior of the gas chamber inside the prison at San Quentin. Caryl Chessman was put to death here in 1960.
Protesters hold an all-night vigil at San Quentin State Prison in California to protest the scheduled execution of convicted murderer Aaron Mitchell...
Image of convicted robber and rapist, Caryl Chessman, 'The Red Light Bandit,' five days before he was scheduled to be executed in the gas chamber at...
Guards at the famous San Quentin prison which in 1984 housed Richard Ramirez " The Night Stalker " and Stanley " Tookie " Williams who is considered...
Reverend Jesse Jackson walks towards the California State Prison at San Quentin for a meeting with convicted killer Kevin cooper February 9, 2004 in...
After serving four years of a 20 year sentence for the slaying of George Alberts engineer aboard the freighter Port Lobos, Frank Connor and Earl...
Saved from death three times by gubernatorial reprieves, Mrs. Juanita "Duchess" Spinelli, , walks the "last mile" into San Quentin prison, before her...
On the witness stand before an assembly committee investigating the parole from San Quentin of three former waterfront labor leaders is William...
The sealed door of the gas chamber at San Quentin prison in California. Caryl Chessman was put to death here in May 1960.
San Francisco: Hickman. Photo shows William E. Hickman, the murderer of little Marion Parker in Los Angeles in the door of his cell at San Quentin...
This "tank" cell at San Quentin Prison, California, measures 7 feet 8 inches by 11 feet 8 inches, with the ceiling 7 feet 11 inches high. Yet is is...
San Quentin, Calif:- Here is the gas chamber in San Quentin prison in which 194 persons, including three woemn were put to death up to 1967. The...
Men gather here in San Quentin's prison yard while waiting for meals and before evening lockup. It is here that many fights and knifings occur since...
John Joseph McNamara Secretary of the Bridge and Structural Iron Workers Union who was sentenced to 15 years in prison and went to San Quentin along...
Mrs. Juanita "Duchess" Spinelli, schedules to be the first woman to be executed in California and the first to die of poison gas, grips a crucifix...
San Quentin, Calif: Newsmen were kept at a distance April 22, as condemned "hippie cult" leader Charles Manson was removed from Los Angeles Sheriff's...
Main prison yard at San Quentin...men gather here while waiting for meals and before evening lockup. It is here that many fights and knifings occur...
Actor Marlon Brando joins with and speaks to demonstrators against capital punishment outside the gates of San Quentin prison. Hundreds of persons,...
Los Angeles County Sheriff's van passes through gates of San Quentin Prison, bearing convicted killers, Jack Santo and Emmett Perkins, closer to...
Framed by Scales of Justice, Stanford Law Professor Anthony Amsterdam testifies February 25th with his agreement with California's Supreme Court's...
San Quentin, CA- Forty-five somber witnesses are led from San Quentin's gas chamber after watching the execution of Elizabeth "Ma" Duncan here 8/8....
Edward Kruvosky, former light heavyweight boxer, sent to San Quentin prison with a number of other youths for the Howard Street attach case in San...
James A. Johnston, nationally known penologist and former head of Folsom and San Quentin prisons, had accepted the wardenship of Alcatraz Island...
The Sirhan Area is ready on San Quentin Prison's death row for the killer of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. The address: Cell 33, South Side, condemned...
The Sirhan Area is ready on San Quentin Prison's death row for the killer of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. The address: Cell 33, South Side, condemned...
San Quentin Prison, California: Ashen faced and pensive, Juanita "The Duchess" Spinelli sits in warden's office at San Quentin Prison where she faces...
Escorted by San Quentin prison guards J.R. Thomas and Lt. L.J Morin , Caryl Chessman, condemned to death more than seven years ago, enters the Post...
Mrs. Frances Couturier, who started visiting convict-author Caryl Chessman in San Quentin Prison two years ago, is hopeful that they may be reunited...
San Quentin Prison, California- Convict-author Caryl Chessman, scheduled to die in gas chamber here 5/2, is pictured 4/30 during what may have been...
Only a few hours of life remaining. San Quentin, California: Pictured as she entered the San Quentin Prison gates today is Barbara Graham mother of...
San Quentin, CA: The inmates watch television in the evening. The programs are not censored, and by the majority vote, the men can watch whatever...
Mickey Hart , drummer for the Grateful Dead, sitting nr. Prison chaplain Earl Smith in front of members of the San Quentin Mass Choir in courtyard at...
Mickey Hart , drummer for the Grateful Dead, sitting nr. Prison chaplain Earl Smith in front of members of the San Quentin Mass Choir in courtyard at...
Mickey Hart , drummer for the Grateful Dead, looking on as prison chaplain Earl Smith performs w. Members of the San Quentin Mass Choir in chapel at...
Musicologist & drummer for the Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart, standing at mike, introducing the members of the San Quentin Mass Choir in chapel at the...
Male prisoner leading members of the San Quentin Mass Choir in song at the prison chapel; the choir is made up of male prisoners & 18 female...
Male prisoner leading members of the San Quentin Mass Choir in song at the prison chapel; the choir is made up of male prisoners & 18 female...
San Quentin Mass Choir performing song in the prison chapel; the choir is made up of male prisoners & 18 female staffers, including prison guards;...
San Quentin Mass Choir performing song in the prison chapel; the choir is made up of male prisoners & 18 female staffers, including prison guards;...
San Quentin Mass Choir performing song in the prison chapel; the choir is made up of male prisoners & 18 female staffers, including prison guards;...
