As the cheers of their supporters and family members carried throughout the Garden Chapel, 157 men from San Quentin received educational and … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2009
Cate Supports Plan to Enhance Sentence Credits
CDCR Secretary Matthew Cate visited San Quentin last month and gave the SQ News a few minutes of his time to answer questions. The central question … [Read more...]
Gov. Rejects Prison Health Care Proposal
An agreement intended to overhaul and modernize the state’s prison health care system has been rejected by Gov. Schwarzenegger as being more than the … [Read more...]
Mayor Newsom Answers Prison Reform Questions
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and CDCR Secretary Matthew Cate made a tour of San Quentin and permitted the SQ News and Journalism Guild to ask … [Read more...]
One of the Last Black Revolutionaries
More than 35 years ago, in a daring prison escape, two brothers scaled the walls of San Quentin State Prison to freedom. Twenty years later, one of … [Read more...]
Growing Lives Through Gardening
Did you know that the Insight Garden Program (IGP) in H-Unit will be growing an organic vegetable garden that will provide organic vegetables to local … [Read more...]
Health and Wellness Corner
The San Quentin News “Health and Wellness Corner” column runs every month. A University of California, San Francisco, health professional student will … [Read more...]
San Quentin Fights The H1N1 Flu
While the normal flu season has all but faded away in California at this point in the year, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation … [Read more...]
Thousand Mile Club Runs the Lower Yard
A group of dedicated runners jogged distances of 5, 10 an 15 miles as part of the San Quentin 1000 Mile Club’s event recently. The leading runner was … [Read more...]
After 38 Years Lamonta Paroles
Having entered the correctional system as a young twenty-one year old in 1976, Lamonta McBroom happily reunited with his family on May 19, 2009. It … [Read more...]
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