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Happy Mother’s Day from the women at the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility

May 29, 2019 by San Quentin News Staff

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Filed Under: WOMEN IN PRISON, YOUTH OFFENDERS Tagged With: mothers day, women, youth

Wall City Volume 2: If you want it all – look here!

May 29, 2019 by San Quentin News Staff

wall city Front Cover

Everyone who donates $40 or more to San Quentin News this year will get a free gift – a full color 32-page Wall City magazine Volume 2– written … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, WALL CITY Tagged With: wall city, Wall City Magazine, Wall City News

News Briefs

May 13, 2019 by San Quentin News Staff

US States

1. Muscatine, Iowa – Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said that more states should let people with felony records vote … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: news briefs

Wall City Volume 2: Table of Contents

May 2, 2019 by San Quentin News Staff

Wall City Spring 2019 Volume 2 Issue 1 Table of Contents

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Filed Under: WALL CITY Tagged With: Wall City Magazine

News Briefs

January 10, 2019 by San Quentin News Staff

Alabama – State lawmakers took steps to change Alabama’s execution method from lethal injections to nitrogen hypoxia, Criminal Legal News reports. The … [Read more...]

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21st century solutions to 20th century problems

December 29, 2018 by San Quentin News Staff

PUP Academic Conference

They came from all over the prison and the nation. Scholars dressed in standard blue prison uniforms walked down a staircase that leads from the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Most Read Tagged With: Prison University Project

US Appeals Court rules on deportable convictions

June 11, 2018 by San Quentin News Staff

For the purpose of deportable convictions, a carjacking conviction in California does not always qualify as a violent crime, according to a recent … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 140 (2010), 559 U.S. 133, Board of Immigration Appeals, California Penal Code 215(a), Johnson v. United States, Nieves-Medrano  v. Holder, Ninth Circuit, Solorio-Ruiz v. Sessions

Several new policies to help hire formerly incarcerated

June 11, 2018 by San Quentin News Staff

A female offender learns job skills at one of two new tech facilities

In spite of the negative stigma of a felony conviction, new policies developed by local, state and federal officials will encourage employers to hire … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Ban the Box, BTB, certificate of rehabilitation, CoR, employers, ex-offenders, RAND, Work Opportunity Tax Credit, WOTC

New 50-bed mental health facility in Southern California

June 11, 2018 by San Quentin News Staff

Nurse providing information about medical Advance Directives

The state’s prison system plans to build a new 50-bed mental health facility in Chino for Southern California inmates. ICE reported “24,476 of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 50-bed mental health facility, Bill Sessa, California Institution for Men, cdcr, Chino inmates, mental health beds

Dental procedures before modern medicine

July 1, 2017 by San Quentin News Staff

JANUARY 23, 1938 L. L. Stanley,  prison physician at San Quentin for the past 25 years, gave many interesting details of his work in a talk given at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Back in the Day

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