Risking their lives for minimal pay, incarcerated female firefighters in California work to save residential neighborhoods and national … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2021
Examining disparities in crack cocaine sentencing
Powder cocaine offenses given lighter sentences compared to ‘rock’ cocaine After years of fighting for fair federal sentencing reform for those … [Read more...]
Local politics play role in CA resentencing
Recent legislation has created new opportunities for prisoners to have their sentences recalled by the court. But there are also new political … [Read more...]
Sports film director Liam Hughes visits SQ
Local sports film director Liam Hughes visited San Quentin on Oct. 1 to get a sense of how it feels being inside of prison, for a documentary he is … [Read more...]
Jamal versus Jamaal: Intramural basketball goes into double overtime
Finally, after a long on-again off-again season due to COVID shut downs, the Intramural Basketball League held its championship game, and team Cookies … [Read more...]
9th Circuit won’t end CA’s moratorium on executions
A federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to force California to resume executions of almost 700 men and women on Death … [Read more...]
Remembering Tony Holzhauer
Tony Holzhauer was a longtime volunteer in service to the residents of San Quentin. He showed up every Thursday night for 15 years to participate in … [Read more...]
Daughter transforms hatred into healing — Part 2
By Samantha Lawlor, Survivor For the first time in 13 years, I visited my father in prison. He had been transferred to a hospital and was … [Read more...]
TEIR TALK: Q&A with SQ’s biggest baseball fan
It was a sad day in Mudville (San Quentin) when Mighty Casey (the San Francisco Giants) struck out in the playoffs (against the Los Angeles … [Read more...]
Conversations with Great Teachers by Bill Smoot
To learn something in life, or anything for that matter, you must have help from a teacher. So says Bill Smoot, 74, author of a must-read book titled … [Read more...]