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Archives for June 2015

Day of Peace Event ‘Like a Day in the Park’

June 1, 2015 by Juan Haines

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...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bread & Roses, Day of Peace, Rehabilitation Corner

Bryan Stevenson Challenges a Broken System

June 1, 2015 by Kevin Sawyer

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...]

Filed Under: Featured

Pelican Bay Instructors Work Around Hurdles To Educate Inmates

June 1, 2015 by Dana Simas

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...]

Filed Under: Featured

Learning How to Forgive Must Precede Healing

June 1, 2015 by Rahsaan Thomas

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...]

Filed Under: Featured

Sentencing a 13-Year-Old to Life in Prison

June 1, 2015 by Juan Haines

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...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Juvenile Justice

Members of SQUIRES Share Their Knowledge and Life Choices With Students and Coaches

June 1, 2015 by Rahsaan Thomas

Student athletes and coaches from the University of California, Berkeley, and McClymonds High School discussed and experienced the consequences of bad … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: SQUIRES

How Minority Police Officers Deal With Racism

June 1, 2015 by Lee Jaspar

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...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Human Interest

Study Shows That Discipline Based on Race, Gender and Orientation Place Students at Risk

June 1, 2015 by John Lam

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...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Human Interest

FBI Admits Experts Gave False Testimony Against Defendants Who Were Executed

June 1, 2015 by John Lam

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...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Human Interest

Stereotype of African-American Males Said to Stem From Days of Slavery

June 1, 2015 by Rahsaan Thomas

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...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Human Interest

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