One of the hardest, most challenging and difficult aspects of being incarcerated at Valley State Prison (VSP) in Chowchilla, California has been … [Read more...]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, November 2021
Spiraled Out of Control My life as I once knew it is gone forever. It has been replaced by a new set of rules that I have little control over. In … [Read more...]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, October 2021
Poem:Not By Choice – By ChanceI’ve had plenty of time to vindicate my mind, heart, plus my soul, from my tribulations. Incarceration is self-inflected … [Read more...]
Letters to the Editor: Inmates, Covid and Lupus? July 2021
Dear Editor: My name is Tania Le’June Washington, and I am a prisoner here at the Central California’s Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, California. … [Read more...]
Letters To The Editor–Let The People Speak, May 2021
Editor, San Quentin News, My cousin Vanessa G. has been a constant blessing in my life and her continued support has made my prison incarceration … [Read more...]
Letters To The Editor—Let The People Speak, March 2021
Greetings news staff, How are all of you? I hope safe. I’m Mahdi, a federal prisoner here at FCI Florence in Colorado. I received your monthly … [Read more...]
Letter To The Editor, James King, February 2021
To My San Quentin Community: This has been one hell of a year. Under the easiest of times, prisons are a hard place to live. This year it became … [Read more...]
Correspondence with Miami Youth Academy
In October, students at Miami Youth Academy and men at San Quentin State Prison in California started a letter exchange facilitated by the Prison … [Read more...]
Letter to the Editor by Larry Lavell, December 2020
Greeting from Corcoran’s SHU (Security Housing Unit). Well, I guess it’s no longer ‘the SHU’ but my God, this place sucks. - Hell. I’ve been in … [Read more...]
Letter to the Editor By Jeremy Mount, Federal Correctional Institution, Sandstone, MN (F.I.C. Sandstone), December. 2020
As inmates, many of whom are American Vets, and America looks on, the prison staff at SCI at A.I.C. Sandstone announced that cases of COVID-19 are now … [Read more...]