Program tracks down 12,201, awards them $11.2 million. Because millions of dollars in collected restitution funds often go unclaimed by crime victims, … [Read more...]
SQN adviser ongoing commitment spans more than 35 years
Wanted: reporters for an award-winning newspaper. Long hours, lousy pay ($24 a month). Requirements: ability to write coherently and be a prisoner in … [Read more...]
Bidding farewell to SQ’s guiding light
Kathleen Jackson has spent the last nine years inside a prison guiding men, most serving life sentences, to turn their lives around. Nearly 400 of … [Read more...]
News Briefs The New York Times
New Mexico — Lawmakers passed a bill forbidding “restricted housing” — defined as 22 or more consecutive hours in a cell “without daily, meaningful … [Read more...]
Former prisoners return for TRUST graduation
Three highly acclaimed self-help programs at San Quentin Prison held a graduation for more than 80 inmates on March 30. Dozens of San Francisco Bay … [Read more...]
Beliefs and rationale challenge when catastrophe hits
In a fictionalized future world, the worst possible global scenario occurs (nuclear annihilation). Robert Mailer Anderson brings three characters on … [Read more...]
Code.7370 Graduation Day at SQ
Justin Meskan spent the last seven years behind bars, but in August he is scheduled to get another chance at putting his life back on track, with the … [Read more...]
Titans of CNC Academy offers marketable skills to prisoners
Wearing a T-shirt with Titans of CNC on its front and, in large bold letters, Made in the USA on the back, Titan Gilroy says he is on a quest to … [Read more...]
Hybrid novel discusses women’s empowerment issues
When Caits (pronounced cats) Meissner ventured inside San Quentin last summer to meet with inmates taking a creative writing class, she talked about a … [Read more...]
CALPIA’s Pattillo explains the options of prison job training
The jobs inmates do in California’s prisons are diverse, and they demand skills that can be used in the outside workforce, according to Charles … [Read more...]
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