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MOURNING OUR LOSSES Hosts Rememberances

August 31, 2021 by Juan Haines

Since May 2020, educators, artists, and organizers – many returning citizens – say they are willing to write, edit and translate humanizing memorials … [Read more...]

SQ DEAF COMMUNITY DURING COVID-19

August 31, 2021 by Timothy Hicks

A new community of unique deaf people arrived at San Quentin and had to endure a prison programming change plus a devastating COVID-19 … [Read more...]

Correspondence Programming Continues During COVID-19 Lockdowns

August 31, 2021 by Anthony Manuel Caravalho

Lockdown pressures during the 14-month state of emergency at San Quentin State Prison did not mean all prisoners missed out on … [Read more...]

Deadliest Day in San Quentin’s History–August 21, 1971

August 31, 2021 by Kevin Sawyer

The deadliest day in San Quentin’s history took place 50 years ago on Aug. 21, 1971. On a single day of violence, three guards and three prisoners … [Read more...]

FREEDOM THROUGH FITNESS

August 30, 2021 by Harry C. Goodall Jr.

A workout program started in prison has turned into a successful business training more than 200 formerly incarcerated people as physical … [Read more...]

The Arts: Perfect Plate by Ben Chandler

August 30, 2021 by Juan Haines

Ben Chandler, 57 has spent five of the six years he has been incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison. His favorite painters are Picasso and … [Read more...]

GOVERNORS USE OF CLEMENCY

August 30, 2021 by Kevin Sawyer

Governors can increase the use of their executive authority clemency as a corrective tool in order to reduce mass incarceration in the United States, … [Read more...]

MORE THAN BASKETBALL-Prison Sports Ministry

August 30, 2021 by Timothy Hicks

Prison Sports Ministry (PSM) representatives Don Smith and Bill Epling visited the Media Center at San Quentin on June 30 and had a conversation with … [Read more...]

WHITE HOUSE DEVELOPS NEW PARDON PROCESS

August 30, 2021 by steve brooks

The Biden administration has signaled to criminal justice reform activists that he may use his clemency powers to release numerous people incarcerated … [Read more...]