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KidCAT members unite and bid farewell as leadership roles transition

October 23, 2019 by Joe Garcia

Youth offenders and prisoners focus on incorporating the entire community The latest graduating cycle of KidCAT’s First Step curriculum marked … [Read more...]

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Dear KidCAT

September 28, 2019 by Joe Garcia

My name is Jose Hernandez. I’m serving a 68-to-life sentence and have been incarcerated since the age of 16. I am now 25 years old and I want to reach … [Read more...]

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Finding your true self in a non-designated universe

September 28, 2019 by Joe Garcia

Jonathan Rivas came to San Quentin, vowing to turn often participate in a coordinated “removal”— where a racial brand of prison politics. That means … [Read more...]

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Coalition For Justice graduates exemplify commitment to community

September 11, 2019 by Joe Garcia

San Quentin’s Coalition For Justice (CFJ) celebrated the completion of its latest graduating class—Cycle 15. CFJ’s primary focus in- volves … [Read more...]

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PUP hopes to become nation’s first stand-alone prison campus

September 11, 2019 by Joe Garcia

The Prison University Project’s (PUP) quest for independent college accreditation— and what that may mean, exactly, for the San Quentin … [Read more...]

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Power Source group commemorates first-ever YOP graduation

September 11, 2019 by Joe Garcia

San Quentin youth offenders came together on their own—in a grassroots ceremony on June 23, to commemorate the first-ever graduating cycle of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book/Movie Reviews, Featured, Recently Posted Tagged With: Joe Garcia, Power Source group

Ken Burns brings Country Music to SQ

September 10, 2019 by Joe Garcia

Ken Burns, Julie Dunfey and Dayton Duncan hosting a Q&A for their PBS documentary Country Music

Ken Burns came to the San Quentin chapel and delivered an exclusive prison screening of his latest American gospel, Country Music. The July 24 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book/Movie Reviews, Featured, Recently Posted Tagged With: Country Music at SQ, Joe Garcia, Ken Burns

ROOTS celebrates, tradition, inclusion and freedom

August 14, 2019 by Joe Garcia

Roots graduate Javier Jimenez and Roger Chung

San Quentin’s Asian community organized a festive and all-inclusive ceremony to honor “Super Cycle 5”—the latest graduating class of ROOTS (Restoring … [Read more...]

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The sounds of Woodstock filled the Catholic Chapel

August 14, 2019 by Joe Garcia

Kurt Huget’s guitar workshop for San Quentin inmates did it again—this time bringing the music of Woodstock to the SQ Cath- olic Chapel for a … [Read more...]

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Getting a rare second chance in prison: How one youthful offender reclaimed his life with the help of others

August 14, 2019 by Joe Garcia

Ryan Dietz arrived at San Quentin in 2016 ready to succumb to all the usual pitfalls that await youth of- fenders—substance abuse, cellphone activity … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Recently Posted, YOUTH OFFENDERS Tagged With: Joe Garcia, kid cat

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