La ignorancia no fue excusa para Efraín Castañón, quien por decidia tuvo que pasar cuatro meses en segregación y agregó siete meses más a su … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2019
Reñido partido entre SQ Earthquakes y el equipo de administración de SJ Earthquakes
Los representantes del equipo de fútbol profesional San Jose Earthquakes visitaron por cuarta vez en dos años la Prisión Estatal de San Quentin para … [Read more...]
Oakland Police Chief delivers apology at SQ Barbershop Forum
Oakland Police Chief Jane Kirkpatrick delivered an encouraging message of respect, hope and an apology for law enforcement misdeeds to more than 200 … [Read more...]
Demonstrating great achievement under difficult circumstances
By David Ditto and Michael Johnson, Staff Writers. Tasseled caps and gowns flowed as diplomas, degrees and certificates were conferred in San … [Read more...]
Coalition For Justice graduates exemplify commitment to community
San Quentin’s Coalition For Justice (CFJ) celebrated the completion of its latest graduating class—Cycle 15. CFJ’s primary focus in- volves … [Read more...]
HBO film O.G. reviewed at Sing Sing prison
Incarcerated audience was invited to engage in Q&A dialogue with film’s director Madeleine Sackler The groundbreaking film O.G. was shown to a … [Read more...]
Examining the spectrum of education and incarceration
Norberto Andino, 53, sat in a circle of about 25 people that included his classmates and teachers. The Colombian-born man came to prison without the … [Read more...]
PUP hopes to become nation’s first stand-alone prison campus
The Prison University Project’s (PUP) quest for independent college accreditation— and what that may mean, exactly, for the San Quentin … [Read more...]
Power Source group commemorates first-ever YOP graduation
San Quentin youth offenders came together on their own—in a grassroots ceremony on June 23, to commemorate the first-ever graduating cycle of the … [Read more...]
Removal of books from prison library seen as attempt to censor black history
The Danville Correctional Center in Illinois has removed more than 200 books from its library, volunteers from the Education Justice Project and … [Read more...]