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Asked on The Line

May 29, 2011 by Angelo Falcone

What is significant about the fifth day of May? In Spanish, May 5th means Cinco de Mayo. On May 4, 2011, four men were stopped at random in North … [Read more...]

A Symposium on Three Strikes Held in L.A.

May 29, 2011 by San Quentin News Staff

LOS ANGELES — A two-day symposium called “The Future of California’s Three Strikes Law: Reform, Repeal, or the Status Quo?” was held by the John Jay … [Read more...]

California May Extend Moratorium on Executions

May 29, 2011 by San Quentin News Staff

SACRAMENTO — The state will not be ready to defend its new lethal injection procedures in court until early next year, prolonging a moratorium on … [Read more...]

Opening Day for Hard Timers Softball Team

May 29, 2011 by Drew Piazza

The weather was very favorable for San Quentin’s Opening Day softball, as Golden Gate Ministries came to challenge the Hard Times team. A hard time is … [Read more...]

UC Berkeley Professor Shares His Love Of Writing With S.Q. Prisoners

May 29, 2011 by La Quan Hayes

Poetry professor Geoffrey O’Brien shares his love of writing with San Quentin inmates as a volunteer English teacher for the Prison University … [Read more...]

Unique S.Q. Group Raises Awareness About Life Sentences Through Rap Music

May 29, 2011 by La Quan Hayes

A group of San Quentin inmates, who were sentenced to life as youth, use rap to raise awareness of youth life sentences. As the arrest rate of … [Read more...]

May 2011 News Briefs

May 29, 2011 by San Quentin News Staff

TEXAS – On Tuesday, April 19, Alabama turned over its supplies of sodium thiopental to the Drug Enforcement Administration, becoming the latest state … [Read more...]

S.Q. Veterans Say Goodbye to One of Their Brothers

March 29, 2011 by JulianGlenn Padgett

Joe Diggs was a friend, father and a mentor to the men of San Quentin. He left this world honorably in a ceremony befitting a soldier who served his … [Read more...]

OBITUARY

March 29, 2011 by Tung Nguyen

It seems like yesterday, seeing Phousaykeo “Luong” Sapsourivong busy cleaning the showers for the men in North Block. It was a job that Luong quietly … [Read more...]

Don Specter Brings the Fight to the U.S. Supreme Court

March 29, 2011 by JILL KRAMER

Editor’s Note: Excerpts of this story are reprinted with the permission of The Pacific Sun. Don Specter has spent his entire legal career fighting on … [Read more...]