HEALTH, FITNESSKEEP ATHLETEYOUNG AT 62 Everyone knows that exercise preserves health and regenerates youth. Darwin “Tall” Billingsley, 62, proves … [Read more...]
MAKING HEALTH CARE PART OF A SUCCESSFUL REENTRY
MAINTAINING CONTINUITY OF CARE FROM PRISON TO SOCIETY Why should healthcare be a part of your reentry plan? How often do you hear people … [Read more...]
REPORT: CHRONIC FEAR HAS NEGATIVE EFFECT ON PHYSICAL, MENTAL HEALTH
Chronic fear can negatively affect an individual’s physical, emotional, environmental, and spiritual health, contributing to a variety of anxieties … [Read more...]
VOLUNTEERS BRING TRAUMA-INFORMED YOGA TO SQ RESIDENTS
Yoga instructors Annabelle Teleki and Veronica Geretz arrive at San Quentin each week to guide the residents through a practice known as … [Read more...]
TRANS PRISONERS FORCED TO SUE FOR GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE
Incarcerated transgender people struggle to access gender-affirming care in prisons around the U.S. and often must resort to lawsuits to get the care … [Read more...]
COMPASSIONATE RELEASE PROVISIONS LARGELY IGNORED
The release of elderly prisoners is significantly underused, a criminal justice professor says. Every state except Iowa has a law allowing … [Read more...]
San Quentin athletes battle ‘COVID monster’
Long-term coronavirussymptoms continue affectingthe incarcerated at The Q. The COVID beast came through San Quentin and tore through sports … [Read more...]
YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT
The food we put into our bodies has a direct impact on our physical health How are food and health related? What you eat impacts your health … [Read more...]
Study: The darker side of daydreaming
There are numerous positive side effects of daydreaming, but recent studies show it’s possible to do it too much. Daydreaming is useful as a … [Read more...]
Medicaid funds to treat addiction in prison facilities
Advocates say proposal would reducecrime, opiod-related overdose deaths The federal government plans to allow states to use Medicaid funds for … [Read more...]