A federal appeals court for the western United Sates has issued a stunning decision upholding the rights of incarcerated felons to vote in Washington … [Read more...]
Criminologist Suggests Options To Early Releases
Stanford Criminologist Joan Petersilia spoke recently to San Quentin prisoners concerning California’s current prison healthcare and overcrowding … [Read more...]
Innocence & Exoneration
For more than 10 years the California Innocence Project has fought to free innocent men behind prison walls, and it’s had some notable success. The … [Read more...]
What Doing Time Does to Inmates
America moved abruptly in the 1970s from a society that justified incarceration in the belief that it would facilitate productive re-entry into the … [Read more...]
Preparing Your Case
The most important element for inmates preparing petitions to a court is “Telling your story so the person reading your case says, ‘This is … [Read more...]
Back in the Day – Selected Stories From Back Issues Of The San Quentin News
NOV. 23, 1979 – after a four-month suspension of publication mandated by the Warden, the SQ News has resumed production. The newspaper staff had been … [Read more...]
Health Fair Returns
San Quentin TRUST will be sponsoring its Seventh Annual Health Fair on April 30. The one day event will be held on the lower yard, in and around the … [Read more...]
CDCR TIDBITS
Pre and post-sentencing credits went into effect Jan. 25, 2010. The new half-time from date-of-arrest time credits apply only to those sentenced or … [Read more...]
There Is Always Hope
James Estelle has many years experience as a prison guard and warden, and he says the Alcoholics Anonymous program has helped many inmates to turn … [Read more...]
MOMAS Looks For New Members
Over the past year, I had the pleasure of working on developing and teaching a financial literacy course at San Quentin called “Members of Modern … [Read more...]
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