Cemetery Tales
San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, Folsom State Prison and Preston School of Industry in Ione each have a cemetery where incarcerated people are buried, marked only with their inmate numbers. Using state records and published newspaper accounts, Inside CDCR is unlocking stories of those buried in the prison cemeteries. In early 1958, a change in policy ended the practice of burying people at state prisons.
For October 2023’s final Cemetery Tales, we unrolled the list and dropped to the last names of those buried at...
An unanswered complaint about food quality ended with the shooting death of a hospital superintendent in 1916. The man responsible...
A man linked to 11 disappearances or deaths, but only convicted of forgery, leads us to the strange tale of...
This week's Cemetery Tales features two men, incarcerated 30 years apart, who ended up in the San Quentin and Folsom...
The latest in our Cemetery Tales series began as a bit of a mystery for longtime San Quentin Museum volunteer...
As part of the Cemetery Tales series, Inside CDCR takes a closer look at the stories behind two grave markers...
The fates of two women, one serving time at San Quentin and the other executed in the gas chamber, are...
The last names appearing on the lists for each prison cemetery at San Quentin and Folsom are Leong Ying and...
While Folsom and San Quentin's cemeteries are most well-known, Preston School of Industry also serves as the final resting places...
A horse thief named Robert Southern and career criminal John Pastor are two forgotten prison cemetery tales. They are just...