Unlocking History
Explore the department’s history.
This is the story of the choices made by those wearing a badge and the stagecoach robbers fleeing the law....
Since the founding of the state prison system in the early 1850s, inmates have been allowed special concessions during national...
Just eight years after the Wright brothers took their historic 1903 flight in North Carolina, an aviator in California took...
On Oct. 10, 1890, a group of Lake County miners bent on revenge killed a woman and shot her husband....
For the better part of the 1860s, headlines across the country focused on the manhunt for accused murderer William Wells....
After decades of working in law enforcement, Charles Aull returned to state service, first at San Quentin and then at...
Charles Aull went from a businessman to a lifelong career in law enforcement. This is a two-part story of one...
In 1911, arts as a rehabilitative tool was introduced for the first time at San Quentin State Prison. One widely...
Hazel Belford-Glab found herself the center of attention but not in the way she hoped. Her motion picture career had...
Hazel Belford was a young actress trying to make her mark in silent pictures. She won beauty contests, had a...