“These Significant Inequalities Need Resolution” There’s a wide disparity between California counties on how many people are shipped off to state … [Read more...]
A Survival Journey From 1945
After reading Mitchell Zuckoff’s Lost in Shangri-La, one big question lingered as I hungered for more out of this miraculous saga of survival. How did … [Read more...]
7 Prisoners Pitch Business Ideas
Venture capitalism took on a whole new meaning, as business executives ventured inside the walls of San Quentin State Prison to hear business … [Read more...]
One Man Finds Transformation After Living a Nightmare
Louisiana during the 1960s was a bad time and place for a black man to be charged with killing a white woman and make it to trial alive, let alone … [Read more...]
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
In his debut novel, authorAravind Adiga has created the lowly, dejected man, Balram Halwai, who drives himself from poverty into India’s middle class … [Read more...]
Calls For Peace Spark Widespread Interest
Ending racial hostilities in California prisons, as proposed by a coalition of Pelican Bay prisoners, would not solve all of the system’s problems, … [Read more...]
College Program Sponsors Open Mic
There were songs and poems, laughter and somber reflections as a dozen San Quentin prisoners took the stage during the Prison University Project’s … [Read more...]
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy’s
Condemned people, lifers, and those with long prison sentences can easily relate to the protracted demise of the main character in Leo Tolstoy’s The … [Read more...]
Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende
It has been nearly three decades since Isabel Allende’s rebellious novel Of Love and Shadows brought light to “the disappeared” — Chilean insurgents … [Read more...]
Prisoners Seek Racial Peace
A multi-racial group of prisoners is calling for an end to all racial hostilities in California prisons and jails, and a “return to a … [Read more...]
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