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 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.
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...
The tales of two men laid to rest in prison cemetery grounds at San Quentin and Folsom go beyond the...
San Quentin and Folsom prisons each have a cemetery where many incarcerated people were buried, marked only with their inmate...
Two inmate numbers on grave markers reveal the stories of a miner and a young gambler who landed at San...