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Archives for August 2018

CGA banquet graduation focuses on recovery and change

August 26, 2018 by Juan Haines

Facilitators, former graduates and 2018 graduates CGA

Dining on chicken and pizza, on Feb. 8, dozens of inmates picked up certificates after completing a program aimed at changing criminal thinking and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized

21st Century programs graduate apprentices

August 26, 2018 by Juan Haines

Coder Robert Barnes shows off his certificates with Instructor Jon Gripshover and TLM Programs Director Natrina Grandana

More than a dozen inmates sat in the front row of a prison chapel on June 15 to graduate from one of three well-regarded 21st century training … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 21st century, California Prison Industry Authority’s, CalPIA, Career Technical Education, Code.7370, The Last Mile Works

High Desert Prison warden sets the record straight

August 20, 2018 by Kevin Sawyer

SQN staffer Marcus Henderson and Warden Marion Spearman

By some accounts, High Desert State Prison is one of California’s most notorious penitentiaries. Warden Marion E. Spearman wants to clear up that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Most Read Tagged With: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, High Desert State Prison, Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Sen. Loni Hancock, The Association of State Correctional Administrators

The show goes on for SQ Shakespeareans

August 20, 2018 by Juan Haines

SQ Shakespeare troupe performs the Comedy of Errors

Drama therapy was in full display on May 18 as a nine-day quarantine ended at San Quentin for inmate performers in the Shakespeare play King Lear — a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Comedy of Errors, King Lear, Marin Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare, Steve Emrick, William James Association

SQ artists raise money for the fight against cancer

August 19, 2018 by Rahsaan Thomas

Paintings done by San Quentin artists displayed at the Cords Gallery

Artists incarcerated at San Quentin used their talent to raise money for cancer research at Cords Gallery during a First Friday art walk in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted Tagged With: Art, Cords Gallery, First Friday art walk, San Quentin, SQ CARES, Women’s Cancer Resource WCRC

WALL CITY VOLUME 1: Emotions: Best when allowed out

August 17, 2018 by San Quentin News Contributor

Don’t put on a façade, says Glen Holden. Someone’s going to check you on it. Prisoner Re-entry Network, an Oakland non-profit, interviews lifers … [Read more...]

Filed Under: WALL CITY

Butterscotch comes back to perform for TLM

August 17, 2018 by Rahsaan Thomas

Butterscotch at The Q

A crowd of incarcerated men cheered like it was their parole day when Antoinette “Butterscotch” Clinton took the stage at San Quentin State Prison … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted Tagged With: Beverly Parenti, Butterscotch, Chris Redlitz, Code.7370, San Quentin State Prison, TED Talk

Blues musician Maxx Cabello rocks the yard

August 15, 2018 by Marcus Henderson

Maxx Cabello

Maxx Cabello Jr.’s guitar wizardry entertained San Quentin’s Lower Yard June 23, as the visiting blues musician and singer debuted his new “Tattoos … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Most Read, Recently Posted Tagged With: Alex Cabello, Maxx Cabello, SQ Music Program, Steward Burr

PUP grads take center stage

August 14, 2018 by Kevin Sawyer

Craig Johnson receiving an Associates of Arts degree from PUP Academic Director Amy Jamgochian, Ph.D

“Pomp and Circumstance” played and everyone stood to applaud the Prison University Project’s (PUP) class of 2018 as they took center stage in San … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Graduation, Judy Lewen, Prison Universitiy Project, PUP, San Quentin

The Phenix Flight

August 13, 2018 by San Quentin News Contributor

Peace was unknown until I was alone Covered by the ashes which meant the fire Was gone I wish I was a bird I wish I was free, I wish you were here to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized

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