The San Quentin tennis team offers prisoners a unique opportunity to connect with the outside community, filmmaker Rex Miller discovered after a … [Read more...]
Coaching Behind the Wall
Here are comments from incarcerated men who are coaches of the San Quentin sports teams. They report coaching challenges, the qualities that coaches … [Read more...]
Dons Overcome Netters
A duo from the San Quentin tennis team suffered an agonizing 4-2 defeat to the University of San Francisco Dons. San Quentin players Ke Lam and … [Read more...]
1000 Mile Club Holds The Annual Marathon
Members of San Quentin’s 1000 Mile Club lined up for the ultimate challenge on Nov. 19, 105 laps around the lower yard, which is just about 26.2 miles … [Read more...]
From A Window In San Quentin
By Fe P. Koons My tears will not bring back the hour of holding your tiny fingers in my palm or kissing your cheeks in the solitude of the night The … [Read more...]
January 2012 News Briefs
SACRAMENTO - Gov. Jerry Brown’s 2012-13 budget proposals would reduce the state’s workforce by some 3,000 positions, mostly from the Department of … [Read more...]
Death Penalty Called Failure
“The death penalty is not a deterrent to crime, nor is it swift justice,” former San Quentin Warden Jeanne Woodford told an audience of about 100 … [Read more...]
West Block Woes
San Quentin North Block prisoners who were transferred to West Block are dealing with the new living conditions with patience. The transfer was a … [Read more...]
Amending Three Strike Law Up for 2012 Vote
A new ballot initiative is headed for a vote in 2012 to curb life sentences for non-violent crimes. The measure was drafted by the Stanford University … [Read more...]
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness by Michelle Alexander
“More African-American men are in prison, or on parole, than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War,” said Professor Michelle Alexander in a … [Read more...]
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