Dining on chicken and pizza, on Feb. 8, dozens of inmates picked up certificates after completing a program aimed at changing criminal thinking and … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2018
21st Century programs graduate apprentices
More than a dozen inmates sat in the front row of a prison chapel on June 15 to graduate from one of three well-regarded 21st century training … [Read more...]
High Desert Prison warden sets the record straight
By some accounts, High Desert State Prison is one of California’s most notorious penitentiaries. Warden Marion E. Spearman wants to clear up that … [Read more...]
The show goes on for SQ Shakespeareans
Drama therapy was in full display on May 18 as a nine-day quarantine ended at San Quentin for inmate performers in the Shakespeare play King Lear — a … [Read more...]
SQ artists raise money for the fight against cancer
Artists incarcerated at San Quentin used their talent to raise money for cancer research at Cords Gallery during a First Friday art walk in … [Read more...]
WALL CITY VOLUME 1: Emotions: Best when allowed out
Don’t put on a façade, says Glen Holden. Someone’s going to check you on it. Prisoner Re-entry Network, an Oakland non-profit, interviews lifers … [Read more...]
Butterscotch comes back to perform for TLM
A crowd of incarcerated men cheered like it was their parole day when Antoinette “Butterscotch” Clinton took the stage at San Quentin State Prison … [Read more...]
Blues musician Maxx Cabello rocks the yard
Maxx Cabello Jr.’s guitar wizardry entertained San Quentin’s Lower Yard June 23, as the visiting blues musician and singer debuted his new “Tattoos … [Read more...]
PUP grads take center stage
“Pomp and Circumstance” played and everyone stood to applaud the Prison University Project’s (PUP) class of 2018 as they took center stage in San … [Read more...]
The Phenix Flight
Peace was unknown until I was alone Covered by the ashes which meant the fire Was gone I wish I was a bird I wish I was free, I wish you were here to … [Read more...]
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