Usually, when "chicken hindquarters" is on the dinner menu at San Quentin, it's good news. "It's a very popular meal in prison," Aaron Ramzy, who is incarcerated there, told Business Insider in a ...

It’s in a corner of San Quentin State Prison farthest from the front gate and the gift shop, beyond which Interstate 580 runs traffic to and from the well-off towns of Marin County, north of the ...

Phillip Sims, a student in the Quentin Cooks program, serves food to guest during graduation dinner at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif., on Wednesday, May 22, 2019.

SAN QUENTIN — The scent of brown butter and toasted pine nuts wafts from the H Unit kitchen of the oldest prison in California, where eight inmates are learning to make gnocchi. Outside, the ...

Quentin Cooks teaches San Quentin State Prison inmates culinary skills so they’ll find jobs in restaurant kitchens after being paroled. One graduate worked at Broderick Roadhouse in midtown ...

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. -- John Whearty was 22 when San Quentin State Prison officials gave him a .38-caliber revolver, a 12-gauge shotgun and a crash course in being a prison guard. "The officer I ...

California’s San Quentin State Prison is notorious for housing famous killers as well as the only death row in the state. It’s also home to an inspiring annual program called Quentin Cooks that ...

San Quentin prison on lockdown as dozens suffer gastrointestinal illness. ... "The food has been on a consistent downhill slide in the 22 years I've been here," he said.