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Green Team recruits two men off the yard to beat Warriors

January 6, 2019 by Rahsaan Thomas

A road closure left the Green Team with only five players, including the 65-year old Don Smith, for a full court game schedule against the San Quentin … [Read more...]

New SQ Athletic Association sees sports as a rehab program

January 6, 2019 by Rahsaan Thomas

For decades, sports at San Quentin involving outside community members have been separate recreational programs. Now two incarcerated men have a … [Read more...]

Apply Pressure win Intramural Basketball League Championship

January 6, 2019 by Rahsaan Thomas

a “We came together,” Coach Sholly Kehinde said after winning the finals over the Dream Team. This year was his first time as a head coach of an … [Read more...]

“Right Here”

January 5, 2019 by San Quentin News Contributor

So where have I been all of these years? In a desolate land population by men The older the younger and many my peers So many displaced faces, races, … [Read more...]

CIW hosts second annual Suicide Prevention Week

January 5, 2019 by Marcus Henderson

Women prisoners at the California Institution for Women (CIW) were given the knowledge to promote awareness at its second annual Suicide Prevention … [Read more...]

Class action over surrendered Access MP3 players

January 5, 2019 by aronroy@gmail.com

The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) is facing a lawsuit from at least one inmate, and possibly a class action suit involving scores of other … [Read more...]

The Race

January 2, 2019 by San Quentin News Contributor

Here I am again, Trapped in time and space Writing these letters It’s like a race… I’m out in front Got a good start Running full speed Pumping my … [Read more...]

Damaging effects on female prisoners’ care and critical services

December 29, 2018 by Achilles

Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is plagued by staff shortages that are having damaging effects on female prisoners’ care and critical services, re- ported … [Read more...]

Incarcerated women bringing #MeToo movement to prisons

December 29, 2018 by Lisa Strawn

Women on the outside are doing their work to bring incarcerated women into the #MeToo movement. According to a piece from The Fire Inside, the … [Read more...]

Former female prisoners fighting for the ones they left behind

December 29, 2018 by Marcus Henderson

The voices of formerly incarcerated women are rising as they mobilize around the nation to change prison conditions for the women prisoners they left … [Read more...]