Flipping through this year’s proposed criminal justice legislation, it is hard to miss Crime Victims United, a seemingly omnipresent victims’ rights … [Read more...]
Reconsidering Juvenile Rehabilitative Needs
In the early morning hours of May 11, 2011, while sleeping on his living room sofa, Jeffrey Hall was shot dead from point-blank range. The killer was … [Read more...]
Is California Ready for a Sentencing Commission?
In January, while defiantly declaring the end of California’s prison crisis, Gov. Jerry Brown insisted further reductions in prison overcrowding … [Read more...]
Alcatraz Becomes a Site for Healing Process
VICTIM SURVIVORS UNITE WITH AUTHOR AND PRISONER GROUP TO PROMOTE RESTORATIVE JUSTICE On a warm October day on Alcatraz Island, families and … [Read more...]
San Quentin Alumnus On Life After Prison
Kevin “Big Sticks” Hagan paroled to Los Angeles on April 14, 2011 after spending 28 years in prison, the last 16 of which were at San Quentin. Now he … [Read more...]
Hammer Drops in On The Last Mile Group
Rapper MC Hammer is proof that anyone can become master of his own message. Last month, during a visit with San Quentin’s “Last Mile” group, Hammer … [Read more...]
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