Governor Jerry Brown filed a new prison population reduction plan offering ways to decrease prisoners’ sentences and modify the use of private … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2013
Shorty Award Goes Behind Prison Walls
Chrisfino Kenyatta Leal recently joined a select and influential club, including the likes of people like Marlon Wayans, Suze Orman and Neil Patrick … [Read more...]
Modified Three-Strike Law Releases Ex-Con
Armando Osuna is a perfect example of how the modified Three Strikes Law is working. He’s a free man today, but he admits that as a 20-year-old, he … [Read more...]
San Quentin Welcomes The Amala Foundation
A small organization traveled from Austin Texas to San Quentin State Prison to hold its third fundraiser aimed at ending violence against children … [Read more...]
Zoe Mullery Encourages Sharing Creative Stories
For many prisoners, Wednesday is just another humdrum day behind bars spent missing the free life and their loved ones. However, for a small group of … [Read more...]
Winners and Losers as Program Funds Shifted
Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan called Realignment is aimed at reducing prison overcrowding by redirecting low-level offenders away from state prisons and … [Read more...]
‘Painted Ladies of San Quentin’ Novel Debuts This Summer
The Painted Ladies of San Quentin, the latest graphic novel from artist Jason Lenox, is scheduled for release this summer in the anthology UGLI STUDIO … [Read more...]
First Board Hearing Brings Good News
One secret to winning parole is to work hard with rehabilitation programs, says James Houston. In a rare case, he was found suitable for parole at his … [Read more...]
Many Three-Strikers Await Help From Proposition 36
Despite the revised 2013-2014 state budget adding $100 million to the prison budget of $9 billion, millions of dollars are being spent on the … [Read more...]
Defiant Gov. Brown Looks To The U.S. Supreme Court
Gov. Jerry Brown has once again gone to the U.S. Supreme Court in an attempt to end federal oversight of the state’s prison system. However, the … [Read more...]
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