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CDCR expands fire camp to youth offenders

August 23, 2024 by C.K. Gerhartsreiter

For almost eighty years, California has relied on incarcerated fire fighters, but declining numbers of incarcerated persons has reduced fire camps to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Most Read, Recently Posted, Rehabilitation Corner

Mentorships at SQ help residents build community

August 20, 2024 by Ramon Fritz

San Quentin Residents express how mentorship builds community through, empathy, and compassion while finding healing from a life of traumatic … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted, Rehabilitation Corner

Residents draw inspiration from formerly incarcerated

August 15, 2024 by Ramon Fritz

Tommy "Shakur" Ross

San Quentin Rehabilitation Center residents reflect on what it means to give back by drawing inspiration from the previously incarcerated. Formerly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted, Rehabilitation Corner

New San Quentin program aims to stop misuse of guns and safer communities

August 14, 2024 by Vincent O'Bannon

Over 70 gun offenders gather in San Quentin’s Chapel B every Friday to discuss the factors surrounding their incarceration. Gangs, anger, … [Read more...]

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Self-help and self-discovery programs provide insight on victimization

August 7, 2024 by Vincent O'Bannon

Volunteers exchanging views on the self-help programs offered at SQ

Incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people are proving skeptics wrong by transforming themselves through self-help and self-discovery … [Read more...]

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Multi-day workshop educates residents on science of reconditioning body

August 3, 2024 by Michael Callahan

Dads Back! Academy Moving Forward theatre workshop participant doing a trust exercise with teaching artist Jim Macdonald

San Quentin residents attended a multiple-day workshop to inform themselves about the three parts used by the brain to connect personality with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted, Rehabilitation Corner

Annual Narcotics Anonymous banquet held for first time since COVID-19

August 3, 2024 by Edwin Chavez

The Narcotics Anonymous group hosted its annual banquet at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center July12, which packed a large crowd of residents and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted, Rehabilitation Corner Tagged With: Narcotics Anonymous

 Defy Ventures offers training in entrepreneurship while serving time

August 1, 2024 by Jerry Maleek Gearin

San Quentin’s Mount Tamalpais College sponsored an entrepreneurship workshop, with aspirations of bringing a curriculum to the prison. The Defy … [Read more...]

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California Men’s Colony hosts Day of Atonement: Victim and offender dialogue

July 31, 2024 by Brian Landry

For the 2nd Annual A Day for Atonement, held during National Crime Victims Week on April 23, 2024 in the Protestant Chapel at California Men‘s Colony … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted, Rehabilitation Corner Tagged With: California Men‘s Colony

Outside employers give face-to-face interviews to resident graduates

July 23, 2024 by Bostyon Johnson

Twenty-two employers and reentry specialists came to San Quentin’s Chapel B for face-to-face interviews with resident graduates for Employer Day, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Rehabilitation Corner Tagged With: Prison to Employment Connection

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