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Archives for April 2016

Kid CAT Banquet Inspires National Juvenile Reform

April 1, 2016 by Rahsaan Thomas

Actress Susan Sarandon limped into San Quentin State Prison to learn from incarcerated Kid CAT members how she can help them stop the school-to-prison … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured

U.S. Undersecretary Of Education Visits San Quentin

April 1, 2016 by Juan Haines

Another cadre of inmates learning computer program skills hosted a coding demonstration at San Quentin State Prison on March 15. The undersecretary of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured

Teachers’ Forum Addresses School-to-Prison Pipeline

April 1, 2016 by Juan Haines

“Teaching is a political act,” said Berkeley High School teacher Hasmig Minassian. “It’s the job for the teacher to fight for the conditions that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured

Enhancements Leave Thousands with Longer Sentences

April 1, 2016 by David Eugene Archer Sr.

Tens of thousands of convicted criminals are in state prison longer than the sentence for their crime due to California sentencing enhancements. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured

Collette Carroll Dedicated to Changing Lives

April 1, 2016 by Miguel Quezada

Collette Carroll is the kind of San Quentin volunteer who sees a serious need and fills it. The need was to prepare prisoners for their release into … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Profiles

PPI Research Shows Population Fluctuation

April 1, 2016 by Kevin Sawyer

Many sources say America locks up some 2.3 million people in its jails and prisons on any given day, but that’s not the whole story. According to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Legal

Court of Appeals Upholds Prop. 89

April 1, 2016 by Noel Scott

By Noel Scott Journalism Guild Writer Two ballot propositions that make it harder for prisoners convicted of murder to get parole have been upheld on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Legal

CDCR Releases New Blueprint With Budget Proposal

April 1, 2016 by Chung Kao

CDCR officials unveiled an updated master plan to fix California’s overcrowded prison system. Significant improvements have been made, “but much work … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Legal

CDCR Has Duty to Process Inmate Appeals

April 1, 2016 by San Quentin News Staff

A prisoner may petition the court for a writ of mandate to compel the prison system to process his or her administrative appeal, a state appellate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Legal

Critics Question the Purpose of Prisons

April 1, 2016 by Forrest Lee Jones

America needs to rethink the purpose of prisons and how they operate, some criminal justice reformers recommend. The country needs to change its ideas … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Legal

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