50 years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s message of peace
"King’s Dream was to end class divisions and racism" The message of peace and racial justice from Martin Luther King Jr. 50 years ago is still being echoed in 2018 America. Nonviolent protests around … Read Full Article about 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s message of peace
Running from the prison cell to public office
‘Should we bear the burden of our past when our present has been involved in fixing the future?’ Lewis Conway Jr., a formerly incarcerated man, is challenging disenfranchisement by running for public … Read Full Article about Running from the prison cell to public office
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Ear Hustle wraps up first season with over six million downloads
The hit podcast Ear Hustle, launched from inside a prison, started its first season with the goal of starting a dialogue about incarceration and humanizing people inside. With 6,268,176 downloads, […]
Beauty Behind Bars visits San Quentin Prison
Beauty Behind Bars, a female self-esteem program, entered a men’s prison to share how they overcame trauma. Normally, Beauty Behind Bars seeks to free women from the mental incarceration they […]
SQN launches new website, Visit us at SanQuentinNews.com
The Last Mile inmate coding program, Code.7370, has designed a new website for San Quentin News at www.sanquentinnews.com. Inmate Harry Hemphill built the website. He graduated from the coding class […]
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“Tough On Crime” Billionaire Indicted
Henry Nicholas III, co-founder of Broadcom Corporation, was indicted on 21 charges including drug possessions, drug distribution, and spiking drinks of unknowing victims with the drug ecstasy. Nicholas is the one who funded the last minute effort […]
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SQ’s Law Libraries Serve All
San Quentin has two fully compliant law libraries plus three satellite partial law libraries to serve the prison’s diverse population. The Main Law Library is now located in a renovated section of the old laundry building on the lower yard […]
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Integrating Prison Cells
California’s prisons have long been integrated. Women’s housing, dining rooms, camps, classrooms, programs, work assignments, yards, visiting and dorms already have integration policies in place. The Integrated Housing Program will give us more versatility in housing male inmates, […]
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Executions Resume
On April 16, 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that lethal injection as practiced in Kentucky is not “cruel and unusual punishment” under the U.S. Constitution. The case is […]
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Condemned Inmate Found Dead
Death row inmate Edward Dean Bridges, 55, dies Thursday morning of suicide. (Photo provided by California Department of Corrections)A condemned inmate at San Quentin State Prison was found dead in […]
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Appeals Court Upholds Death Penalty Delay
The 1st District Court of Appeal refused to overturn a Marin County judge’s ruling resulting in additional delays of executions at San Quentin State Prison. The Department of Corrections and […]
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Recent Deaths On the ‘Row’
Michael Dee Mattison, 55, received on death row from Los Angeles County on April 14, 1980, died of natural causes at an outside hospital facility on July 17, 2009. Fred […]
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Outside View of Death Row – Marin Magazine Takes a Stand
Nearly 700 convicted murderers await an execution at San Quentin State Prison, in the heart of Marin County. If just one of these men was executed by lethal injection a […]
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Robot Lawyer for Refugees
[SUB-HED: Robolawyer-chatbot tool to complete anti-deportation and immigration paperwork.] [PULL QUOTE: “215,000 people beat traffic and parking tickets in London, New York and Seattle.”] The use of robolawyer-chatbots promises to […]
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ROOTS graduates learn inter-generational trauma
The audience cried and laughed with recent graduates of the Restoring Our Original True Selves (ROOTS) program as they told stories of healing generations of intergenerational trauma and jokes. “For […]
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Women complete culinary program
Eleven inmates graduated from the first Culinary Arts Management program at Folsom Women’s Facility. Vincent Moralez, supervisor of the program, and Jason Doolittle, adjunct professor and executive chef, started the […]
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United States leads world in locking up women
Individual states of the U.S., along with the federal government, lead the world in putting women behind bars, according to a 2017 report by the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI). Women […]
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