Despite the torturous weather conditions on Feb. 15, Markelle Taylor, who was fighting off a cold, still managed to come only 27 seconds short of … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2019
Robert Polzin loves different sports for more reasons than the game
Robert Polzin aka “Big Smooth” is one of the most active persons in sports at San Quentin and he will tell you it’s not simply for the love of the … [Read more...]
Amid a turbulent life basketball surfaced as a guiding force for good
Oakland, Calif., has a rich, storied history of basketball talent that stretches from Bill Russell (McClymonds High School) to Damian Lilliard … [Read more...]
Stanford joins with SQ in collaborative engineering project
Stanford students and prison inmates joined forces by participating in a ten week engineering course aimed at finding solutions to social problems. … [Read more...]
Founder of San Quentin’s Buddhadharma Sangha remembered
Responding to a call from inmates interested in starting a Zen group, Seido Eishu Lee founded the Buddhadharma Sangha inside San Quentin State Prison … [Read more...]
Prison artists display their work in San Rafael’s Bartolini Gallery
Incarcerated artists under the tutelage of the William James’ Arts & Correction program produced “museum- quality” paintings that were displayed … [Read more...]
Hygiene products more readily available for incarcerated woman
Female hygiene products are becoming more avail- able to incarcerated women, thanks to what is called “the menstrual equality movement,” according to … [Read more...]
Kim Kardashian helps formerly incarcerated obtain jobs
Kim Kardashian is working to help formerly incarcerated people obtain jobs as part of her involvement with criminal justice reform. Kardashian … [Read more...]
A civil liberties debate over NY prison’s biometric voice system
There are differing opinions of whether the new biometric voice recognition system put in place at New York Department of Corrections is a violation … [Read more...]
J.P. Morgan Chase eliminates financing of private prisons
Private prisons leveraged their future by borrowing from banks against future arrests. The immigration-rights movement completed a major goal on … [Read more...]