San Quentin State Prison

Kwabena Bediako, campus assistant chemistry professor, was awarded the National Science Foundation, or NSF, CAREER award for his ongoing research and outreach proposal. 

Overcrowding, poor ventilation and outdated infrastructure fuel the spread of COVID-19 in CA state prisons, according to a new UCSF and UC Berkeley report.

The Berkeley Forum announced its Fall 2021 lineup of 12 events featuring panels and speakers from a variety of different fields and disciplines.

"Meet Us Quickly” shines a new angle of visual creativity with an embracing welcome.

We cannot push suffering away — we must meet it with compassion. We have an obligation to serve those who are vulnerable.

Researchers from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and UCSF are working to improve COVID-19 response in California state prisons.

Justin Lofton and Jamel Wilcox were sentenced to state prison Tuesday after a shootout in Berkeley in May near Stanford Liquor on 62nd Street that left no injuries, as first reported by Berkeley Patch.

Sunday’s panel was about narratives of incarceration, yet the only one onstage who had personal experience with incarceration outside of volunteering was Alyssa Tamboura, the daughter of a previously incarcerated man.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Wednesday suspending California’s death penalty, and placing the 737 current death row inmates — among them 42 people from Alameda County — on reprieve.

At San Quentin State Prison, more than 2,000 inmates have access to numerous rehabilitation programs, ranging from educational to vocational, that are intended to provide skills and avenues for inmates’ success — for life both inside and outside the prison walls.