Four hundred Reception Center inmates living in West Block and the Gym attended a reentry fair Saturday, September 06, on the West Block Yard that … [Read more...]
Tobias Wolff Speaks To Us
If you were standing in line for tryouts for American Idol, and they pulled you aside and sat you down with Bruce Springsteen to talk, that would be … [Read more...]
Marching Forward
On June 19, 2008, the entire education department was closed to in order to allow the staff to attend a graduation ceremony in the Garden … [Read more...]
Hope Realized Coming Through the Front Gate
With a message of hope and inspiration for the graduates of the San Quentin Education Department’s 2008 class, Willie Rahman Green returned to … [Read more...]
Centerforce Inisde/Out Summit 2008
On October 6 & 7, 2008, at the Double Tree Sonoma Wine Country, in Rohnert Park, California, “Centerforce Inside/Out” summit will once again … [Read more...]
Brothers In Pen: “A Means of Escape”
A second anthology of short stories, written by prisoners here at San Quentin State Prison is now out in print. Some stories are fiction, … [Read more...]
Getting Perspective
What can IMPACT do for you? Incarcerated Men Putting Away Childish Things can change your life! IMPACT is the largest self-help program at San … [Read more...]
Vietnam Veterans Group Of San Quentin
Who are we? In 1987, the Vietnam Veterans Group of San Quentin (“V.V.G.S.Q.”) was formed to help Vietnam Veterans incarcerated at San Quentin begin … [Read more...]
Living Between Breaths
For those of us sentenced to a life term, time is inexorable. Years pass and seem to bring us not closer to release while our bodies succumb to age. … [Read more...]
“Can I See Some Identification, Please?”
Once paroled from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, rebuilding a new life becomes a never ending request to show valid … [Read more...]