“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...]
PUP Brings Change
San Quentin sits alongside the Bay like a castle, a penitentiary full of history and legend. It is symbolic of a bloody past - once home to warriors … [Read more...]
California’s Budget Short Again
Because of California’s sluggish economic growth, this year there will be around $ 3.7 billion less that forecasters expected for state expenditures, … [Read more...]
POETRY
By EDDIE GRIFFIN Journalism Guild Writer They invite your impropriety They’re so glad that you could come They ignore your many addictions And they … [Read more...]
Coach Shares Some History
Phil Towle, psychology coach for the University of California Bears football team, discusses his sports-related history and his involvement with the … [Read more...]
Legend Remembered
Boxing legend Joe Frazier lost his last fight to liver cancer but one of his nephews remembers him as a people’s champion and a fighter to the … [Read more...]
San Quentin Kings Last Season Battle
BY GARY SCOTT The San Quentin Kings basketball team’s season finale was a heartbreaker as they fell 90-76 to the outside Sports Ministry Basketball … [Read more...]
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