Archives for August 2018

CGA banquet graduation focuses on recovery and change

August 26, 2018 by Juan Haines

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...]

21st Century programs graduate apprentices

August 26, 2018 by Juan Haines

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...]

The show goes on for SQ Shakespeareans

August 20, 2018 by Juan Haines

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...]

SQ artists raise money for the fight against cancer

August 19, 2018 by Rahsaan Thomas

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...]

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...]

Butterscotch comes back to perform for TLM

August 17, 2018 by Rahsaan Thomas

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...]

PUP grads take center stage

August 14, 2018 by Kevin Sawyer

“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...]

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...]