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Local politics play role in CA resentencing

December 26, 2021 by Kevin D. Sawyer

Recent legislation has created new opportunities for prisoners to have their sentences recalled by the court. But there are also new political … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Recently Posted Tagged With: legal, resentencing

Sports film director Liam Hughes visits SQ

December 25, 2021 by Timothy Hicks

Local sports film director Liam Hughes visited San Quentin on Oct. 1 to get a sense of how it feels being inside of prison, for a documentary he is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted Tagged With: Documentary, profile, sports

Jamal versus Jamaal: Intramural basketball goes into double overtime

December 25, 2021 by Timothy Hicks

Finally, after a long on-again off-again season due to COVID shut downs, the Intramural Basketball League held its championship game, and team Cookies … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted, SPORTS Tagged With: basketball, sports at SQ

9th Circuit won’t end CA’s moratorium on executions

December 25, 2021 by Timothy Hicks

A federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to force California to resume executions of almost 700 men and women on Death … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted Tagged With: DEATH PENALTY

Daughter transforms hatred into healing — Part 2

December 25, 2021 by San Quentin News Contributor

By Samantha Lawlor, Survivor For the first time in 13 years, I visited my father in prison. He had been transferred to a hospital and was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ARTS, Recently Posted Tagged With: Restore Justice

TEIR TALK: Q&A with SQ’s biggest baseball fan

December 25, 2021 by Timothy Hicks

It was a sad day in Mudville (San Quentin) when Mighty Casey (the San Francisco Giants) struck out in the playoffs (against the Los Angeles … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted, SPORTS, TIER TALK Tagged With: profile, Profiles, TIER TALK

Conversations with Great Teachers by Bill Smoot

December 24, 2021 by Timothy Hicks

To learn something in life, or anything for that matter, you must have help from a teacher. So says Bill Smoot, 74, author of a must-read book titled … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book/Movie Reviews, Book/Movie Reviews, Recently Posted Tagged With: book review

Virginia denies breast surgery for trans man housed in women’s prison

December 24, 2021 by Randy Hansen

A transgender man in a Virginia women’s prison has sued the state for denying him breast removal surgery, the Associated Press … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted Tagged With: Health and Wellness, Health Care, transgender

Learning the hard way

December 24, 2021 by Carlos Drouaillet

Lifer violates parole, shares the hard lessons he learned with others Not everyone who gets parole makes a success of their life. Some men like … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted Tagged With: life sentence, Opinion, Prison Stories

Prison Policy Initiative releases 2020-21 study

December 23, 2021 by Kevin D. Sawyer

The nonprofit Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) has released its Annual Report, summarizing the advocacy and research it has done in the past … [Read more...]

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