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Robot Chatbot Lawyer for Refugees

April 10, 2018 by Wayne Boatwright

Robolawyer-chatbot tool to complete anti-deportation and immigration paperwork. The use of robolawyer-chatbots promises to be a significant advance in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brennan Center for Justice, DoNotPay, Immigration, Joshua Browder, Parking Tickets, Roland Vogl, Stanford Daily, Stanford Program in Law Science and Technology, The Atlantic, The Guardian, undocumented immigrants

Deportation Crimes Explained

April 9, 2018 by Wayne Boatwright

Veronica Zepeda and her children

In Trump’s first six months of 2017, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested more than 65,000 immigrants, up 37.6 percent from the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: aggravated felony, Alisa Wellek, American Immigration Council, Center for Migration Studies, Christopher Landau, criminal alien, DACA, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, green card, Harold Eavenson, ICE, Immigrant Defense Project, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Joshua Breisblatt, Justice Clarence Thomas, Migration Policy Institute, MPI, Pew, student visas, Thomas Homan, visas

ROOTS graduates learn inter-generational trauma

March 30, 2018 by Rahsaan Thomas

Kevin Neang and Family

The audience cried and laughed with recent graduates of the Restoring Our Original True Selves (ROOTS) program as they told stories of healing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: cambodia, Restoring Our Original True Selves, ROOTS

Women complete culinary program

March 27, 2018 by William Harris

Mireya Flores showing off a tasty dish

Eleven inmates graduated from the first Culinary Arts Management program at Folsom Women’s Facility. Vincent Moralez, supervisor of the program, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Cosumnes River College, Folsom Women’s Facility, The Folsom Telegraph

United States leads world in locking up women report

March 25, 2018 by Marcus Henderson

A woman sitting in one of the United States’ many jail cells around the country

Individual states of the U.S., along with the federal government, lead the world in putting women behind bars, according to a 2017 report by the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured

Code.7370 host Lance Armstrong

March 19, 2018 by Juan Haines

Code.7370 and their instructors posing with Lance Armstrong

In a small classroom with popular catch phrases like Think Different and Believe in the Process on its walls, about two dozen San Quentin prisoners … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Beverly Parenti, Chris Tedlitz, Code.7370, Lance Armstrong, The Last Mile

Veterans’ 29th annual Toys-for-Tots giveaway

February 21, 2018 by Charles David Henry

Veterans displaying the various toys for the children

The holiday spirit enriched the Main Visiting Room for five days in December. For two consecutive weekends, the fully decorated seven-foot Christmas … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Marines, San Quentin State Prison, Veterans Healing Veterans from the Inside Out, Veterans Information Project

San Quentin News’ Senior Editor honored

February 20, 2018 by Wayne Boatwright

Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom talking with Juan Haines

For giving a voice to the voiceless, Juan Haines, the San Quentin News senior editor, was honored with The Silver Heart Award by the Northern … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: East Bay TImes, Juan Hanes, Life of the Law, Nancy Mullane, San Quentin News, San Quentin State Prison, Silver Heart Award, SPJ, SPJ of Northern California

Restoring a community through healing dialogue

February 19, 2018 by Jorge Heredia

“These tiny shoes represent our willingness to walk in each other’s shoes shoulder to shoulder from now on,” an inmate said. “And to unite efforts against our nonsense violence to live in peace and harmony.”

More than two dozen survivors of crime crossed the heavily riveted steel doors at San Quentin to face prisoners convicted of serious crimes, including … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anti-Recidivism Collation, ARC, Board of Parole Hearings, Healing Dialogue and Action, Human Rights Watch

Reconstructing lives through vocational training

February 18, 2018 by David B. Le

CTE laborers on the work site

Greg Venegas is helping San Quentin prisoners learn construction skills qualifying them to find excellent jobs when released. Venegas teaches in a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: CTE, LIUNA, pre-apprentice program

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