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Youth donate essential items

May 15, 2025 by Jerry Maleek Gearin

Victims of Southern California wildfires motivate youth offenders to make amends Mentors at San Quentin have motivated young offenders to prepare … [Read more...]

Filed Under: YOUTH OFFENDERS Tagged With: Youthful Offender Program

Historic change provides opportunity for youth offender mentors and mentees

February 2, 2025 by Eric Allen

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation took a progressive step to make fire camp more accessible to participants in the Youth … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CDCR, YOUTH OFFENDERS Tagged With: Growlersburg Conservation Camp, Youth Offender Program

Youth Offender Program recognizes 43 resident mentors

January 6, 2025 by Larry Ali Deminter

The Youth Offender Program’s Inside Peer Mentor Training Program closed its fourth and final cohort after graduating 43 residents. The program aims … [Read more...]

Filed Under: YOUTH OFFENDERS Tagged With: Every Student Succeeds Act, Inside Peer Mentor Training Program, Peer Mentors, YOP, Youth Offender Program

Innovative peer mentorship program helps youth offenders

December 24, 2024 by Jerry Maleek Gearin

In the wake of ongoing prison reform, a southern U.S. correctional facility has collaborated with a nonprofit organization to create a mentorship … [Read more...]

Filed Under: YOUTH OFFENDERS Tagged With: Lee Correctional Institute, peer mentorship, Restoring Promises

YOP kickball pits mentors against mentees

December 23, 2024 by Marcus Casillas

San Quentin kicked off its first Youth Offender Program resident kickball game on the Lower Yards’ “Field of Dreams.” The event was an effort put … [Read more...]

Filed Under: SPORTS, YOUTH OFFENDERS Tagged With: Youth Offender Program

Youth offenders with specific crimes denied parole opportunities

September 19, 2024 by Jay Kim

N.A. Chaderjian youth graduates

The California Supreme Court ruled that certain juvenile offenders with serious offenses, mostly those serving Life without the Possibility of parole … [Read more...]

Filed Under: POLITICS, YOUTH OFFENDERS Tagged With: California Supreme Court, DEATH PENALTY, Tony Hardin

San Quentin’s YOP provides peer mentors for residents

September 18, 2024 by Larry Ali Deminter

San Quentin Rehabilitation Center saw the first official gathering of its Youth Offender Program with the groups mentees and resident Peer Mentors on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Rehabilitation Corner, YOUTH OFFENDERS Tagged With: Peer Mentors, Youth Offender Program

Children jailed for not stopping school fight

January 20, 2024 by Vance Eugene Sams Jr.

A media-outlet partnership investigates the illegal detention of juvenile offenders, in the state of Tennessee’s juvenile justice system. WPLN and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: YOUTH OFFENDERS

The ‘First Step’ towards transformation

December 27, 2023 by Pheng Ly

Excitement filled the air on the morning of Sunday, November 12, as self-rehabilitation continued to thrive at San Quentin. The First Step welcomed a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted, Rehabilitation Corner, YOUTH OFFENDERS Tagged With: Darius Poole, Eliazar Guerra, First Step, First Step curriculum, Frannie Hohman, Kenny Vernon, Kid CAT Childhood development program, Ricky Romero, Victim Offender Education Group

KEEPING HOPE ALIVE FOR YOUTH OFFENDERS 

July 26, 2023 by Raul Higgins

KID CAT OFFERS A CHANCE TO TRANSFORM TRAUMAS INTO LEGACY OF SERVICE outside community bring a powerful currency to San Quentin’s Kid CAT program: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: KidCAT, Recently Posted, RESTORATIVE JUSTICE, YOUTH OFFENDERS

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