San Quentin State Prison held its annual Day of Peace celebration on April 25. “This is like a day in the park!” folk singer Audrey Auld said to the … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2015
Bryan Stevenson Challenges a Broken System
On a quiet April evening inmates gathered in San Quentin’s Protestant Chapel to hear attorney Bryan Stevenson speak. About 120 inmates from Patten … [Read more...]
Pelican Bay Instructors Work Around Hurdles To Educate Inmates
Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) is a level four facility reserved for the most serious of California’s offenders. Half of the prison houses … [Read more...]
Learning How to Forgive Must Precede Healing
Learning to forgive the murderer of a loved one is hard but necessary in order to heal and move forward, the visitors and prisoners who spoke at The … [Read more...]
Sentencing a 13-Year-Old to Life in Prison
Nationwide, more than 2,200 juveniles under the age of 18 are serving life sentences—dozens were 13-14 at the time of their offense, according to a … [Read more...]
Members of SQUIRES Share Their Knowledge and Life Choices With Students and Coaches
Student athletes and coaches from the University of California, Berkeley, and McClymonds High School discussed and experienced the consequences of bad … [Read more...]
How Minority Police Officers Deal With Racism
Minority police officers say they are as upset about racism as anyone, and they struggle to change the culture in their communities. “Racism is alive … [Read more...]
Study Shows That Discipline Based on Race, Gender and Orientation Place Students at Risk
School discipline by race, gender and sexual orientation have placed large numbers of students at risk for short- and long-term negative outcomes. The … [Read more...]
FBI Admits Experts Gave False Testimony Against Defendants Who Were Executed
The U.S. Justice Department and the FBI have acknowledged that almost all of the experts in the FBI forensic unit dedicated to microscopic hair … [Read more...]
Stereotype of African-American Males Said to Stem From Days of Slavery
Racial stereotypes Americans face today – including the notion of the dangerous Black male — grew directly out of slavery and its aftermath, a study … [Read more...]
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