Unless the next governor, Xavier Becerra, keeps commuting sentences, California’s death row is likely to slowly repopulate in the coming years.

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What might stop kids from committing crimes? A group of district attorneys went to San Quentin, once one of California’s most infamous prisons, to ask the inmates for advice.

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Eli Tan, who covered the San Quentin Giants last year, shares how the story inspired one effort to expand prison sports in California.

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