Archives for March 2018

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March 30, 2018 by Wayne Boatwright

25% drop in state prison incarceration 10% drop statewide average in county jail populations 22% drop in felony filings California still spends … [Read more...]

A nightmare for one incarcerated dreamer

March 30, 2018 by Tare Beltranchuc

Luis Ojeda, 23, is serving a six-year sentence in San Quentin State Prison after a conviction for assault with great bodily injury. Upon his release, … [Read more...]

Unibody turns ex-cons into personal trainers

March 30, 2018 by Joe Garcia

A successful fitness entrepreneur recently launched his own nonprofit organization to train and prepare ex-convicts for employment as personal … [Read more...]

ROOTS graduates learn inter-generational trauma

March 30, 2018 by Rahsaan Thomas

The audience cried and laughed with recent graduates of the Restoring Our Original True Selves (ROOTS) program as they told stories of healing … [Read more...]

The Religion of Sports reaches behind the wall

March 29, 2018 by Rahsaan Thomas

Sports is a religion according to Tom Brady, Michael Strahan and the other producers of The Religion of Sports TV series. On Jan. 9, The Religion of … [Read more...]

Women complete culinary program

March 27, 2018 by William Harris

Eleven inmates graduated from the first Culinary Arts Management program at Folsom Women’s Facility. Vincent Moralez, supervisor of the program, and … [Read more...]

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Valentine visit

March 27, 2018 by Juan Haines

About a year and half ago, Aly Tamboura returned home after serving almost 14 years behind bars. He came back to San Quentin on Valentine’s Day with … [Read more...]

Arnulfo T. Garcia a dream continues to prosper

March 25, 2018 by Juan Haines

This newspaper has previously reported on the life and untimely death of former editor Arnulfo T. Garcia. However, Garcia was much more than editor of … [Read more...]

United States leads world in locking up women report

March 25, 2018 by Marcus Henderson

Individual states of the U.S., along with the federal government, lead the world in putting women behind bars, according to a 2017 report by the … [Read more...]