Dr. John Irwin passed away at his home in San Francisco on January 3 at the age of 80. A memorial service was held in The Garden Chapel on February 19 … [Read more...]

With a message of hope and a story of success, boxer Paul Nave paid a visit to San Quentin, the prison where he spent three years of his life. The … [Read more...]

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed a plan which would place the medical needs of the state’s 160,000 prison inmates in the hands of the … [Read more...]

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...]

Stanford Criminologist Joan Petersilia spoke recently to San Quentin prisoners concerning California’s current prison healthcare and overcrowding … [Read more...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]