Long before any law passed providing time off for taking self-help groups, San Quentin Kings basketball player Julio Saca found his own motivations for bettering himself and helping youngsters. “I don’t want to return to prison,” Saca said. “And I … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2017
Letters to the Editor from R. Ross
Dear SQ News, Greetings to each of you, I am an old ex-resident of the S.Q., haven’t been there since 1990, the beginning of the change over from Level IV, to Level II. Several of my old friends are still there I see in your paper, it’s great to see … [Read more...]
Governor signs drug sentencing reform bill SB 180
Four months after U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions renewed the federal government’s pursuit of mandatory minimum drug sentences for low-level drug crimes in federal cases, California lawmakers on Sept. 12 approved a bill to rein in this type of … [Read more...]
Prosecutors have great power over criminal cases
Prosecutors have taken over as “rulers” of the criminal justice system, curbing the influence of judges, a federal judge says. Draconian laws in recent years have shifted sentencing powers to prosecutors, wrote U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff in an … [Read more...]
A question of law and prison investments
Ethical questions are being raised about an immigration judge whose husband has invested in private prisons, Mother Jones magazine reports. The issue involves Chief Judge Linda R. Reade, whose husband, Michael Figenshaw, bought between $30,000 and … [Read more...]
Politicians work toward protection for young illegal immigrants
The battle over immigration policy continues as some politicians work toward protecting immigrants who illegally entered the U.S., according to two recent Los Angeles Times articles by Sarah D. Wire and Jazmine Ulloa. Referring to young immigrants … [Read more...]
Immigrant rights groups express concern about sanctuary city raids
Immigrant rights groups are concerned that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) is targeting sanctuary cities. Sanctuary regions are jurisdictions in which local law enforcement agencies focus on public safety instead of on … [Read more...]
Alabama restores voting rights without notification
Alabama recently passed a law to restore voting rights to most of its citizens with felony records. A federal judge, however, ruled that this new law does not require the state to notify them. Tens of thousands of Alabama ex-felons were prohibited … [Read more...]
El legado de la revolución Mexicana
La Revolución Mexicana fue un movimiento armado iniciado en 1910 para terminar la dictadura de Porfirio Díaz, la cual culminó oficialmente con la promulgación de la nueva Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos de 1917. Porfirio Díaz … [Read more...]
Viviendo y sobreviviendo entre el cielo y la tierra
Entre el cielo y la tierra. “[…] nadie puede decir en qué momento comienza el despertar del hombre” (Eduardo Subirats, Utopía y Subversión, 1975, p. 148). En lo que más me fijé la primera vez que te conocí, fue en tus manos. Grandes, con las uñas … [Read more...]
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