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Archives for January 2011

California Reentry Program’s First Successful Fund raiser

January 1, 2011 by San Quentin News Staff

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...]

Filed Under: Parole and Release

Unique Culture of S.Q. – Helping One Another

January 1, 2011 by COLE BIENEK

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...]

Filed Under: Opinion

Supreme Court Tells 9th Circuit Court to Stay Out

January 1, 2011 by Stephen Liebb

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...]

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Legal

Legal Counsel For Death Row Prisoners Is Hard to Come By

January 1, 2011 by JulianGlenn Padgett

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...]

Filed Under: Death Penalty

Volunteers and Prisoners Sing During Holidays At S.Q.

January 1, 2011 by JEFF BROOKS

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...]

Filed Under: Religious Programs

725 New Laws For California Citizens

January 1, 2011 by Michael Cooke

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...]

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Legal

Lawsuit To Reform California’s Public Education Funding System

January 1, 2011 by La Quan Hayes

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...]

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Legal

Marin County Attempts to Block Death Row Expansion

January 1, 2011 by San Quentin News Staff

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...]

Filed Under: Death Penalty

Another Viable Vocational Trade on the Chopping Block

January 1, 2011 by San Quentin News Staff

As the budget squeeze continues, prison officials in Sacramento have designated San Quentin’s highly successful landscaping program as “not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Prison Programs, Profiles

Successful Re-integration Programs Reduce Recidivism

January 1, 2011 by San Quentin News Staff

“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...]

Filed Under: Parole and Release

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