By TULLEDO NILES Contributing writer Today he was here forever Testing secrets in God Here in eternity Here in Eden Have you ever tested? Have you … [Read more...]
Realignment Explained
OFFICIAL CDCR RELEASE As of Oct. 1, 2011, our Department and the State of California are undergoing significant changes to facilitate reducing … [Read more...]
Realignment Differs County to County
COMPILED QUOTES FROM THE CDCR STAR County Officials have varying opinions about funding realignment and its affect on public safety. San Francisco … [Read more...]
Poetry
By CHUCK RITCHEY The lonely prisoner sits in his cell, dieing slowly in his special kind of hell. All those he knew have now forgot. Society has left … [Read more...]
LETTERS by Harry, Theodore, & Laticia
Was just listening to Johnny Cash singing San Quentin; remember it well. Was an inmate there at the time he recorded his San Quentin album. Celebrated … [Read more...]
Organic Gardening Making a Difference
Editor: I’m a long-time member of the Insight garden program, an awesome program brought to us by a true humanitarian. The program is designed to help … [Read more...]
Cutting Wasteful Spending
Editor: If the Governor is serious about cutting wasteful spending by CDCR, a brilliant plan (which 30 years of wasteful ‘directors’ have rejected) is … [Read more...]
POETRY
ABSENCE OF THE ARCHBISHOP By GEOFFREY G. O’BRIEN You meet at most four archbishops in a lifetime. You have at most one lifetime. You sing when in … [Read more...]
Wife of Prisoner Helping Other Prisoners
Editor: I send my utmost respects. I woke one morning to find a paper copy of this newspaper crumpled up outside my house, right on my front lawn. … [Read more...]
Another Victim of the CA Budget Cuts
Editor: I am assigned to the vocational landscaping program. The news that we will lose our program came as a major disappointment on one level, but … [Read more...]