One day, in May of 1985, Kevin Cooper first set foot on death row at San Quentin State Prison, in the San Francisco Bay. Three weeks ago — 39 years later — he left one of the oldest ...

in San Quentin, California. The pair walked with other protestors from San Francisco in opposition to the execution of convicted killer Kevin Cooper. A federal appeals court today granted a stay ...

Shortly after he took office in 2018, Governor Gavin Newsom set out to change the state's penal system, beginning at San Quentin ... before people go home," said Kevin McCracken, executive ...