Whether we blame it on a court order or the budget crisis, the San Quentin gymnasium that once held over 350 Reception Center inmates because of an … [Read more...]

An estimated 297,000 California children have a parent in jail or prison, and 60 percent of those parents are held more than 100 miles from their … [Read more...]

PROGRAM HEAD LISTS PRIORITIES Six months after the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) announced plans to cut $250 million … [Read more...]

SACRAMENTO -- Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman proposes to build more prisons to solve the overcrowding corrections system in … [Read more...]

The latest Hayward decision by a nine-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit represents good news for lifers in California, … [Read more...]

According to CDCR figures, as of April 2010, 8.261 prisoners are in out-of-state facilities, with 4,076 in Arizona, 2,579 in Mississippi, and 1,606 in … [Read more...]

San Quentin State Prison is arguably the most famous prison in the world and an irresistible magnet to far more than the inmates who arrive by bus in … [Read more...]

A group of some 50 prisoners joined a mixed selection of visitors in the Catholic Chapel recently to participate in a restorative justice workshop and … [Read more...]

The Green Life, an environmental and sustainable living, food and energy awareness group at San Quentin, hosted Nikki Henderson at its first Earth Day … [Read more...]