The nation's second-largest prison system is enforcing a lockdown after authorities learned a condemned killer had made threatening calls to a Texas state senator from a cell phone smuggled into death ...

IT’S late at night, and every thing’s dark and quiet, except for the occasional sound of a guard’s footsteps. Michael Wayne Hunter is sleeping in his 5-by-9-foot cell. He hears a sudden scream, then ...

A San Quentin State Prison death row inmate was found dead in his cell Saturday, a prison spokesman said Monday. RELATED: Striking photos show San Quentin execution chamber being dismantled Miguel ...