As a member of the Veterans Group at San Quentin, we’re allowed to wear distinctive royal blue hats emblazoned with its ...

(BCN) — A death row inmate at the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center passed away over the weekend, prison officials said Wednesday. Melvin Turner was pronounced dead at 6:04 p.m. Saturday.

“This is San Quentin’s first firearm awareness group ... He witnessed his first gun offense at age 6. For him, the graduation was about the men going forward in communities to make changes ...

He was part of the organization from 1994 to 2007 and was incarcerated at various California prisons, such as San Quentin, Pelican Bay, and Corcoran. Mendoza speaks with Insider about rivalry with ...