Editor’s Note: David Marsh was a staff writer for the San Quentin News for two years until his release on parole in June 2010. He is now a reporter and columnist for the weekly Valley Voice newspaper. I guess it’s time to for me to live up to the … [Read more...]
Family Camp Ready to Open for the 2011 Season
Editor’s Note: David Marsh, now paroled, was a Staff Writer for S.Q. News and periodically submits articles for publication with his permission. The shy ten-year-old boy takes several halting, tentative steps up the sidewalk leading to the closed … [Read more...]
So What Happens to a Seatbelt-less Parolee?
When you forget your mistakes, you are doomed to repeat them. As a parolee, I do not have the luxury of room for making mistakes. Only three short months out from behind the foreboding walls of the fortress by the bay, the venerable San Quentin State … [Read more...]
Parole’s Ups and Downs
Parole is in transition. The folks in Sacramento would be the first ones to tell you this in case you didn’t read it in the newspapers. My parole agent(s) have been quick to point this out to me. But you’ll experience the confusion firsthand with … [Read more...]
Judges Back Kelso’s Rule
A federal panel has refused to eliminate the receiver overseeing California prison health care. The ruling clears the way for federal Receiver J. Clark Kelso to proceed with his $1.9 billion construction plan to add medical beds to the state’s 32 … [Read more...]
Re-Entry Program – What It Means
The clients are inmates, and many are soon to be paroled. In large numbers, two evenings each week, they file steadily through the door of the California Re-entry Program in a seemingly unending stream. For those who come through the door, their … [Read more...]
Prison Smokers Are Facing A Bleak Future All Over
When Virginia instituted its long-planned smoking ban in prisons in February, it brought half the number of the 50 states which have outlawed the use of tobacco products by staff and inmates on prison grounds. A number of the other 25 states that … [Read more...]
Going Home to See Becky
David Marsh wrote this column shortly before being paroled FORGIVENESS: I will be leaving this place soon, in a matter of days, God willing. Yup, parole date coming up for me, again! Hope to make this one, on June 11th. And as a single father with … [Read more...]
I’m Out On Parole: So What Do I Do Now?
I’ve left behind the walls of the prison, having paroled on June 11. But I’m still fighting to reach freedom, one slow step at a time. I’m homeless for now, for the first time in my life, and I’m 54 years old. I’d never have imagined that there is … [Read more...]
MEMORIES OF FREEDOM
Will these walls that now surround me Be my future, then my end These cold steel bars before me Are my truth, I can’t pretend Are my memories of freedom Just a taste, forbidden fruit Are my visions for the future Out of reach, perhaps quite moot Will … [Read more...]
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