Ten years ago the post office delivered a letter from San Quentin State Prison to the wrong address. Professor of Photography Nigel Poor received the … [Read more...]

By Tommy Bryant Journalism Guild Writer Diabetes is a serious problem at San Quentin and Elina Appleton has made it her mission to help those … [Read more...]

Sister Karen Conover will be winding up 15 years as director of San Quentin’s Catholic Chapel choir for a new ministry. She will be departing in … [Read more...]

San Quentin lost a valued member of the community on May 8. Teacher, multimedia artist and friend to many behind the walls of San Quentin, Rene Garcia … [Read more...]

In the early 1970s, poverty-stricken Compton’s murder rate was second only to Los Angeles. A young black man named David Earl White knew this all too … [Read more...]

For three decades, Correctional Officer Keith Davis walked the gun rails and halls of San Quentin State Prison. Now on the eve of his retirement, he … [Read more...]

Brian Arnold died Sat., Feb 21. Arnold was a part of Kairos, a Christian ministry brought into San Quentin and other prisons all over the world by … [Read more...]

Judith Puchner Breen, beloved San Quentin volunteer whose Video Literacy Project and passion for teaching touched the lives of many prisoners, died … [Read more...]

Editor’s Note: This copyrighted story is reprinted with the permission of The Marin Independent Journal  A veteran of the state corrections system has … [Read more...]