News Briefs

NEWS BRIEFS AUGUST 2021

August 30, 2021 by Juan Haines

1. Alabama — Prison officials are asking the federal government if COVID-19 recovery funds can be redirected to improve state prisons with “better, … [Read more...]

News briefs, July 2021

July 30, 2021 by San Quentin News

Arizona—Prison officials are taking steps to use hydrogen cyanide, the same gas used in Nazi extermina-tion camps, to kill death row inmates, The … [Read more...]

NEWS BRIEFS, JUNE 2021

June 28, 2021 by Juan Haines

South Carolina -The failure to find drugs to carry out lethal injections led lawmakers to pass a bill that would force Death Row prisoners to pick the … [Read more...]

Innocent man released after almost three decades incarcerated

March 31, 2021 by Timothy Hicks

A man was released from prison after DNA evidence cleared him of a rape committed in 1982, the Oakland Post reported. Thirty-seven years ago Archie … [Read more...]

YOU WILL HAVE A HOME

September 30, 2020 by Administrators

https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/covid-19-response-efforts/#R https://roadmap.rootandrebound.org/housing/looking-for-identifying-good-housing-options … [Read more...]

NEWS BRIEFS: All Over the U.S.

May 10, 2020 by Juan Haines

Alabama — Since September 2019, the state’s parole board denied 92% of people who sought release from prison, according to a report by ACLU, Smart … [Read more...]

News Briefs

March 16, 2020 by Michael Johnson

1. USA — Last year, the state of Texas carried out the most executions in the US with nine. Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee followed with three each. … [Read more...]

NEWS BRIEFS

January 7, 2020 by Juan Haines

Washington, D.C. — Gallup reports that for the first time in 34 years, a majority of Americans would rather sentence a murderer to life imprisonment … [Read more...]

NEWS BRIEFS

December 16, 2019 by San Quentin News

Raleigh, North Carolina — The ACLU Statewide Campaign for Smart Justice is moving to end putting incarcerated pregnant women in … [Read more...]

NEWS BRIEFS

November 18, 2019 by San Quentin News

1. Texas — The Death Penalty Information Center re- ports that Texas has scheduled 13 executions between August and December, which is more than the … [Read more...]