Everyone who donates $40 or more to San Quentin News this year will get a free gift – a full color 32-page Wall City magazine Volume 2– written and created by inmates. This is the second volume of Wall City – the San Quentin News publication focused on keeping you informed on criminal justice and rehabilitation issues. The all-new spring 2019 magazine gift is in addition to our gift of twelve months of the San Quentin News newspaper delivered to you. Generous contributions from readers like you are vital in fulfilling our … [Read more...] about Wall City Volume 2: If you want it all – look here!
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Wall City Volume 2: Table of Contents
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Wall City Volume 2: The Fall and Rise of the San Quentin News
It is a well-known fact amongst the San Quentin News staff that Warden Clinton T. Duffy wanted people to voice their opinions about whatever subjects they felt comfortable addressing in prison. That was the seed of opportunity that we were given at the time to increase public safety and achieve social justice. However, conflict arose between San Quentin News staff and the administration that took a legal turn for the worst. Eventually the newspaper went out of existence. In 2008, Warden Robert Ayers Jr. didn’t agree with having the … [Read more...] about Wall City Volume 2: The Fall and Rise of the San Quentin News
Wall City Volume 2: Prison Journalism
What Prisoners Get Out of Working for a Prison Newspaper Are prison-written newspapers a good idea? Well, it depends. More than 20 years ago dozens of prison newspapers dotted the map all across the United States. There were so many that they formed their own news association. Then, one by one, almost all of them disappeared, including the San Quentin News, which went dark for around 20 years. They fell victim to the violence and racial turmoil of the 1980s. Wardens and superintendents across the land had their hands full simply … [Read more...] about Wall City Volume 2: Prison Journalism
WALL CITY VOLUME 1: Front Cover
VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 SPRING 2018 Editor-in-Chief Richard Richardson Senior Editor Juan Haines Staff Writer Charles David Henry Staff Writer Kevin D. Sawyer Columnist Curtis Carroll Columnist David Jassy Art Director Jonathan Chiu Staff Photographer Eddie Herena SQ PIO Lt. S. Robinson Warden’s Office Raphaele Casale CDCR Information Officer II Krissi Khokhobashvili Adviser William Drummond Adviser Sarah Horowitz Adviser … [Read more...] about WALL CITY VOLUME 1: Front Cover
WALL CITY VOLUME 1: Introducing Wall City
Implementing Arnulfo Garcia’s vision for an outstanding inmate-run magazine DEDICATION by Bo Kovitz I just can’t bring myself to write about Arnulfo in the past tense. Months into being a free man, Arnulfo was killed in a car accident while on his mission to build a supportive community for the men and women who would follow him across the walls of prison. In recent weeks, I, like everyone who knew him, have had serious trouble coming to terms with what happened. It seems unreal, because he was and is so real to everyone who … [Read more...] about WALL CITY VOLUME 1: Introducing Wall City
WALL CITY VOLUME 1: A path of transformation
A path of transformationCheap and simple, yoga helps inmates manage the stresses of prison life Darrell “Moe” Washington and Daniel Plunkett doing yoga poses in the SQ Education building Behind San Quentin’s baseball field, in a doublewide trailer surrounded by barbed wire, a dozen inmates sprawl out on yoga mats. Filling inside the bungalow are men, young and old, of different races, religions and worlds. Eyes shut, they take one deep breath together. After a few moments of stretching and balancing themselves, they begin to heal … [Read more...] about WALL CITY VOLUME 1: A path of transformation
WALL CITY VOLUME 1: LIFE AFTER THE SHU
Between them, five men spent nearly a century inside a prison within a prison, California’s notorious Security Housing Unit (SHU). Isolated from contact with other inmates, they endured sensory deprivation, an unavoidable consequence of solitary confinement. They didn’t commit any crimes in prison, nor did they violate any rules. All but one was serving a life term. Their charge: gang membership. That was reason enough under a previous California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) policy to confine them indefinitely … [Read more...] about WALL CITY VOLUME 1: LIFE AFTER THE SHU
WALL CITY VOLUME 1: Proposition 57 and California’s road to declaration
Ballot measure’s implementation speeds path to parole for many. New CDCR regulations that implement Proposition 57 shift the focus of incarceration more toward rehabilitation, though not as much as many had hoped. Still, the rules are expected to allow the early release of about 2,000 prisoners within the first year — and up to 10,000 by 2021. That’s far fewer than the 30,000 estimated by the Legislative Analyst’s Office before the ballot measure passed in November 2016. The huge difference is mainly because the CDCR’s … [Read more...] about WALL CITY VOLUME 1: Proposition 57 and California’s road to declaration
WALL CITY VOLUME 1: SQUIRES
How prisoners change young lives By Charles David Henry, Photographs by Eddie Herena A dozen teenage boys arrive at San Quentin and shuffle around, awkwardly trying to look cool. Flanked by rose bushes and razor wire, the Plaza is a luxuriant little square inside the prison gates. Each of them has a back-story but today the plan is to keep them out of prison — courtesy of San Quentin Utilization of Inmate Resources Experiences and Studies, better known as SQUIRES. The Plaza is bounded with religious chapels on one side, and … [Read more...] about WALL CITY VOLUME 1: SQUIRES