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CGA banquet graduation focuses on recovery and change

August 26, 2018 by Juan Haines

Facilitators, former graduates and 2018 graduates CGA

Dining on chicken and pizza, on Feb. 8, dozens of inmates picked up certificates after completing a program aimed at changing criminal thinking and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized

21st Century programs graduate apprentices

August 26, 2018 by Juan Haines

Coder Robert Barnes shows off his certificates with Instructor Jon Gripshover and TLM Programs Director Natrina Grandana

More than a dozen inmates sat in the front row of a prison chapel on June 15 to graduate from one of three well-regarded 21st century training … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 21st century, California Prison Industry Authority’s, CalPIA, Career Technical Education, Code.7370, The Last Mile Works

The show goes on for SQ Shakespeareans

August 20, 2018 by Juan Haines

SQ Shakespeare troupe performs the Comedy of Errors

Drama therapy was in full display on May 18 as a nine-day quarantine ended at San Quentin for inmate performers in the Shakespeare play King Lear — a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Comedy of Errors, King Lear, Marin Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare, Steve Emrick, William James Association

SQ's Third Annual Gospel Music Workshop

August 8, 2018 by Juan Haines

A stream of more than 200 blue shirts flowed into San Quentin’s Garden Chapel June 23 for the Third Annual Gospel Music Workshop. As the men-in-blue … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Elder Rash, evangelist Paula Bates, Gospel Music, Jesus, New Faith Cathedral, San Quentin’s Garden Chapel

Public safer when released inmates supported

August 8, 2018 by Juan Haines

With 95 percent of people in America’s prisons and jails getting out eventually, a new study finds that public safety benefits by reuniting them with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Global Positioning System, National Institute of Justice, RAND, Reentry

Becoming Ms. Burton: … by Susan Burton

August 8, 2018 by Juan Haines

Of the many memoirs that have landed on my desk, Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women (2010) is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: #Me Too, #TimesUp, Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women, Black women, drug epidemic, Juan's Book Review, Los Angeles, Michelle Alexander

Van Jones’ Redemption Project

July 30, 2018 by Juan Haines

Van Jones in the SQ News room

CNN commentator Van Jones, Jones was at San Quentin on May 10 working on his latest show, The Redemption Project. It consists of eight episodes that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted Tagged With: Beyond the Messy Truth, Restorative Justice, The Redemption Project, The Van Jones Show, Van Jones

New bill keeps youth offenders out of adult prisons

July 27, 2018 by Juan Haines

HRW Senior Advocate Children’s Rights, Elizabeth M. Calvin and Antoine Brown in SQ’s Protestant Chapel

Human Rights Watch (HRW) continues to back legislation that gives youthful offenders a second chance at life after committing serious crimes. Most … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Department of Juvenile Justice, Elizabeth Calvin, Human Rights Watch, youthful offenders

Use of force bill underway

July 24, 2018 by Juan Haines

State Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) plans to introduce a bill that would require the public disclosure of investigations of serious uses of force … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Lizzie Buchen, police shootings, State Sen. Nancy Skinner, Stephon Clark

Beyond the Messy Truth by Van Jones

July 24, 2018 by Juan Haines

Van Jones in the SQ News room

Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart*How We Come Together (2017) is a frank reading of American-style democracy that encourages an honest debate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Beyond the Messy Truth, Brown Is the New White, Listen Liberal, Steve Phillips, The Beautiful Work: Four Solutions, Thomas Frank, Van Jones

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