Notable Prisoners
- Sonny Barger of the Hells Angels
- Edward Bunker
- Eldridge Cleaver
- Joseph Gamsky, aka Joe Hunt, of the Billionaire Boys Club
- Glen Stewart Godwin, whose escape from Folsom earned him a spot on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list
- Cameron Hooker, convicted of the Kidnapping of Colleen Stan
- Rick James, musician
- Edmund Kemper, the co-ed killer
- Suge Knight, owner of Death Row Records
- Timothy Leary
- Charles Manson
- Erik Menendez
- James Mitose
- Ed Morrell, accomplice to the Evans-Sontag railroad robbers of the 1890s
- Bobby Purify (Original singer of "I'm Your Puppet")
- Shorty Rossi, star of the Animal Planet show Pit Boss
- Leo Ryan, U.S. Congressman who while an Assemblyman had posed as a prisoner to investigate conditions.
- Glen Sherley, musician
- Danny Trejo, actor
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