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SQN launches new website, sanquentinnews.com

October 1, 2017 by Kevin.Sawyer

Snap shot of the new SQ News' website

The Last Mile inmate coding program, Code.7370, has designed a new website for San Quentin News at www.sanquentinnews.com. Inmate Harry Hemphill built … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Most Read Tagged With: Code.7370, Death Row, Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, Reva and David Logan Foundation, San Quentin, San Quentin News, San Quentin State Prison, The Last Mile, The Last Mile Works

Hip-Hop artist J. Cole visits San Quentin

September 1, 2017 by San Quentin News Contributor

J. Cole at the San Quentin Media Center shaking hands with Miguel Sifuentes

Platinum Hip-Hop artist Jermaine Cole (“J. Cole”) used a day off during his tour to come see mass incarceration up close. In a two-hour visit with a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Most Read Tagged With: Anti-Recidivism Coalition, Earlonne Woods, J. Cole, kid cat, Louis A. Scott, Lt. Sam Robinson, Scott Budnick, SQUIRES, urtis “Wall Street” Carroll

San Quentin celebrates Day of Peace 2017

July 1, 2017 by Marcus Henderson

Day of Peace Event in San Quentin 2017

The rehabilitative spirit flowed deeply at San Quentin’s 11th Annual Day of Peace celebration. The San Quentin community came together on the Lower … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Most Read Tagged With: Day of Peace, Francesca Lee Trio, Prison University Project, San Quentin, San Quentin State Prison

Inmates striving to become working citizens

July 1, 2017 by Kevin.Sawyer

Inmates striving to become working citizens Prison to Employment Connection at San Quentin State Prison July 2017

The dozens of employers and organizations that support rehabilitation by visiting San Quentin to interview inmates have captured the attention of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Most Read Tagged With: cdcr, Center for Employment Opportunity, City College of San Francisco, One Stop Career Center, Prison to Employment Connection, Warden Ron Davis

‘Get on the Bus’ unites children with their incarcerated parents

June 1, 2017 by Juan Haines

June-Ana-Gonzalez-Lane at a women's California correctional facility

Ana González-Lane says she was “pretty scared and freaked out” the first time she came into San Quentin State Prison nine years ago. “It was such a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Most Read

182 women serving life without parole

May 1, 2017 by Marcus Henderson

Belo’s portrait of Boualy Mangsanghanh

Being sentenced to die in prison is a hard pill to swallow, especially if you are a woman. California women’s prisons house roughly 182 women … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Most Read Tagged With: California Partnership to End Domestic Violence, LWOP

Report Sheds Light on the World’s Five Worst Prisons

April 14, 2013 by Boston Woodard

Cruel and Inhumane Treatment Prisons are not supposed to be finishing schools, but some have achieved notoriety for being unspeakably cruel and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Most Read

S.Q. News Editor Harry O Departs

October 1, 2011 by KESHUN TATE

After 23½ years in federal and state prisons, Michael R. Harris was released from San Quentin State Prison on Oct. 11, 2011. He has been active in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Most Read Tagged With: Profiles, TRUST, VEOG

S.Q. Inmate Murder The First Since 1997

August 1, 2010 by JulianGlenn Padgett

Edward John Schaefer, a 44-year-old Novato resident and serial drunk driver, was stabbed and killed inside San Quentin’s reception center, the first … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Most Read Tagged With: Profiles

How to Persuade a Judge

November 1, 2008 by Stephen Liebb

When faced with someone who sits in judgment over us, we need wisdom and skill to persuade that judge to rule in our favor.  We all must appear before … [Read more...]

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