By Charles Crowe, Staff Writer San Quentin residents walking, running, working out, or just getting fresh air share the paved areas of the prison’s … [Read more...]
Book review: Inequities haunt homeless and poor to the grave
By Charles Crowe, Staff Writer Persons experiencing homelessness face daunting challenges and inequities in their daily lives. Shunned and ignored, … [Read more...]
Study finds static case factors outweigh persons’ transformation
When parole boards focus on static factors, on minor slipups, and on the “optics” of granting parole in certain cases, discretionary parole systems … [Read more...]
Study shows parole process is inadequate and often biased
“No state is ‘doing’ parole well,” concluded a Prison Policy Initiative study of the discretionary parole system in California and 34 other … [Read more...]
LGBTQ+ detainees at ICE facility allege abuse
Transgender and LGBTQ+ detainees at the women’s ICE Processing Center in Basile, Louisiana, allege systemic physical and emotional abuse between 2023 … [Read more...]
TABLETS … WHO BENEFITS MOST?
PPI TAKES A CRITICAL LOOK AT TABLET PROGRAM The Prison Policy Initiative says that profits of e-messaging vendors are taking precedence over the … [Read more...]
NEWS BRIEFS – August 2023
1. Oregon — (The Oregon Capital Chronicle) Gov. Tina Kotek signed into law a bill that provides stiff penalties for street racing, including for those … [Read more...]
MAN WITH MANY HATS
OUR BEHIND THE SCENE AND TRUSTED RESEARCHER STUART WAGNER The masthead of the San Quentin News lists Stuart Wagner as one of its 13 “Advisers.” … [Read more...]
NEWS BRIEFS – June 2023
1. California — (AP) A nine-member reparations task force approved a set of recommendations in late April, advising the state how to compensate and … [Read more...]
NEWS BRIEFS, May 2023
1. South Dakota — (AP) The state has doubled down on mass incarceration as virtually all of a recently authorized $390 million investment in its … [Read more...]