Up to 60 incarcerated pugilists unite on SQRC’s Lower Yard to keep their edge in the sweet science of boxing. Through blood, sweat, and tears, … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2025
SQ hosts Special Olympics, polar plunge, and torch run
SQ athletes came out to support the Special Olympics with a torch run and a polar plunge this winter in the Lower Yard and the Baptistery at San … [Read more...]
Fan of Disney constructs replicas of popular fictional characters
3-D style portrays character standing on his own Jack Anderwald, started drawing when he was 10. Now as an adult he decided to take it to a whole … [Read more...]
New York’s disciplinary system revealed
A study revealed how the New York correctional system’s disciplinary process manipulates incarcerated people. Brian Nam-Sonenstein, senior … [Read more...]
Proposed policies for 2025
Assembly Constitutional Amendment 6 — Slavery (Introduced Feb. 6, 2025) Amends the constitution of the State of California to prohibit slavery in … [Read more...]
Medical debt haunts returned citizens in many states
Prisons and jails have scarcely ever supported healthy living, and their medical care systems have had an infamous reputation of uncertain … [Read more...]
Letters to the Editor: April 2024
Dear SQNews, My name is Wayne, I am a 43 year old transwoman here at the Belmont Correctional Institution. I read all of your newspapers on the … [Read more...]
SQ resident maintains family relations through art
For some incarcerated artists, art comes from a blood line. As a new resident to SQ, Daryl Harmon, have been going through prison culture … [Read more...]
El alguacil de Riverside para Gobernador de California
El polémico alguacil Chad Bianco anunció su candidatura como nuevo gobernador de California en las próximas elecciones del 2026, aspirante que … [Read more...]
Residents pay tribute to lives lost in San Quentin in 2024
At an event sponsored by Mourning Our Losses, the Veterans Group of San Quentin honored veteran, Ernest Vick, while San Quentin resident and trumpeter … [Read more...]