In their first season, the San Quentin Athletics came out winners. Led by Managers Len ZeMarkowitz, Danny (Dano) Lepez, and Dick (Slick) Gilberti, the … [Read more...]
Volunteers and Prisoners Sing During Holidays At S.Q.
As inmates and visitors can tell you, San Quentin celebrates Christmas like no other prison in California. There were carolers in the cellblocks, a … [Read more...]
S.Q. Giants Open With A Tough Loss
BY JEFF BROOKS The San Quentin Giants squared up in their traditional Opening Day game against the Oaks/Cubs and on a day filled with pageantry, the … [Read more...]
Hunger Strikers Protest The Three Strikes Law
Inmates at San Quentin State Prison joined inmates of the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad in participating in a three-day hunger strike to … [Read more...]
Big Squeeze On Teachers Hits Home
California’s current financial crisis has brought major cuts to rehabilitative efforts within the California Department of Corrections and … [Read more...]
‘He Hate Me’ Gridders Open the New Season
San Quentin’s football team “He Hate Me” opened its 2009 season the last weekend in September with a loss against its toughest opponent from last … [Read more...]
Countryman’s Long Road Home
All I was trying to tell the (DVI) officer was to speak to my counselor, I wasn’t supposed to be here... then the officer told me I had five … [Read more...]
S.Q. News Inspires Formation of Guild
Every Friday morning between 8-9:30 a.m. you can find a group of prisoners hammering out policy, working stories and in general trying to set … [Read more...]
Let’s Play Ball
Once again the baseball season is nearly upon us. On Saturday Feb. 28, and March 7, the San Quentin Giants baseball team will conduct try outs at 9 … [Read more...]
Administrative Segregation: One Giant Leap Backward
Without exception, mainline prisoners find brief stays in San Quentin’s South Block Administrative Segregation Unit, “The Hole,” are deplorable. With … [Read more...]