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Tennis season at San Quentin

May 8, 2018 by Salvador Solorio

Mill Valley and Lagunites Tennis Club came into SQ opening day San Quentin Tennis team’s opening day matches were a mixture of wins and losses with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Chris Morgan, Eddie Pateri, Inside Tennis Team, Jeff Heely, Lagunites Tennis Club, Mill Valley Tennis Club, San Quentin tennis player, Sharon Schyler

Tamalpais Runners Club help runners in six-mile race

May 8, 2018 by Rahsaan Thomas

During a six-mile race, the sun beamed down through the clear blue sky onto the San Quentin yard, making the runners thankful to have new caps donated … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 1000 Mile Club, Dylan Bowman, Eddie Herena, Markelle Taylor, Rotorua New Zealand, San Quentin, Steve Rietz, Tamalpais Runners Club

SQ Kings look good in loss to Trailblazers

May 8, 2018 by Rahsaan Thomas

The San Quentin Kings looked good in their pre-season opener. But, they lost the March 24 game 62-53 to the visiting Trailblazers. The Kings took the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Greg Tang, Oris “Pep” Williams, Rob Nesmith, Ryan Williams Steer, San Quentin Giants, San Quentin Kings, Tare “Cancun” Beltranchuc, Trevor Bird

New volunteers to referee games but still face the same complaints

May 8, 2018 by Rahsaan Thomas

A new cast volunteered to take on one of the toughest jobs at San Quentin—refereeing basketball games. “It’s challenging,” Antonio Manning, new ref … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Bill Epling, Bob Myers, Golden State Warriors, Prison Sports Ministry, refereeing basketball, Veteran ref Robert Lee

New soccer season kicks off San Quentin Lower Yard

May 8, 2018 by Rahsaan Thomas

The visiting Outsiders soccer team out-kicked the San Quentin squad, 5-3, in the season opener. “I’ve been missing San Quentin soccer all winter,” … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Aiden Leonard, Alex Lentz, Andrew Crawford, Brown University, Dario Abramskiehn, Juan “Carlos” Meza, Outsiders soccer, Rohit Ramchandani, San Quentin squad, U-Mass Amherst

Parolees’ hard transition from stigmatized past

May 8, 2018 by Joe Garcia

Convicted felons continue to be stigmatized by their criminal past, particularly when they search for legitimate work. But employers are facing a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Arthur Rizer, background checks, Ban the Box, Convicted felons, criminal red flags, formerly incarcerated, Inside Sources, Rachel Liebman, unemployment

Nebraska inmate dies from double bunking in solitary

May 8, 2018 by Harry C. Goodall Jr.

The death of a Nebraska inmate in solitary confinement prompted the state to take measures to end double-bunking in its isolation unit. Terry Berry … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: bunk, double-bunking, Doug Koebernick, Nebraska, Nebraska Inspector General of Corrections, Patrick Schroeder, Paul Schumacher, restrictive housing, solitary, Solitary confinement, State Corrections Director Scott Frakes, Tecumseh State Prison, Terry Berry Jr

San Francisco offers safe injection sites

May 8, 2018 by Rahsaan Thomas

If you can’t stop using heroin, San Francisco is willing to violate state and federal law so you can do it safely. In July, the city plans to open two … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: CAADE counselor, California Association for Drug/Alcohol Educators, David Binder Research, Gov. Jerry Brown, heroin, Martin Walters, overdose, Quinton Walker, safe injection sites, San Francisco, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco’s intravenous drug users, San Quentin State Prison, Sen. Scott Wiener

Police continue to shoot about 1,000 people a year

May 8, 2018 by Joe Garcia

987 people were fatally shot by police officers in 2017 Police across the country shot and killed approximately the same number of people in 2017 as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, Chuck Wexler, FBI, LAPD, Michel Moore, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Police Executive Research Forum, Preservation of Life medals, Ron Honberg, The Washington Post

Former prisoners working where once housed

May 8, 2018 by Harry C. Goodall Jr.

Vocational-inmate-at-SCC-working-on-brick-wall

Across the country, former prisoners are finding jobs in the prisons where they were once housed yet still run into employment obstacles, according to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Chris Gautz, Cindy Stubbs, David Van Horn, Larry Vene, Marshall Project, New Mexico Returning Citizen Program

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