SAN FRANCISCO — A reentry program dedicated to assisting parolees held a silent auction that raised enough money to cover its expenses for a … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2011
Unique Culture of S.Q. – Helping One Another
San Quentin sits at the vanguard of CDCR’s modest rehabilitative efforts. Each month, the S.Q. News profiles any of a number of S.Q. programs. In this … [Read more...]
Supreme Court Tells 9th Circuit Court to Stay Out
The United States Supreme Court in a unanimous decision ruled that federal courts have no business reviewing decisions made by the Board of Parole … [Read more...]
Legal Counsel For Death Row Prisoners Is Hard to Come By
Edward Patrick Morgan has lived on San Quentin Prison’s Death Row without a lawyer for about two decades and what accounts as an automatic legal right … [Read more...]
Volunteers and Prisoners Sing During Holidays At S.Q.
As inmates and visitors can tell you, San Quentin celebrates Christmas like no other prison in California. There were carolers in the cellblocks, a … [Read more...]
725 New Laws For California Citizens
California welcomed the New Year with 725 new laws. One was Assembly Bill 1399, the California Medical Parole Bill. It allows medical parole for … [Read more...]
Lawsuit To Reform California’s Public Education Funding System
A second lawsuit aimed at reform for California’s public education finance system has been filed in Alameda County Superior Court. This lawsuit is … [Read more...]
Marin County Attempts to Block Death Row Expansion
SanRafael — Marin County officials have filed a lawsuit seeking a temporary restraining order to block San Quentin’s new 541,000-square-foot Death … [Read more...]
Another Viable Vocational Trade on the Chopping Block
As the budget squeeze continues, prison officials in Sacramento have designated San Quentin’s highly successful landscaping program as “not … [Read more...]
Successful Re-integration Programs Reduce Recidivism
“When people get out of prison, they have so many strikes against them, they feel doomed to failure. The Report of the Re-Entry Policy Council details … [Read more...]
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