I am delighted to be able to make yearly contributions to San Quentin News. It’s a small way for me to counter indirectly our country’s draconian prison system and to help those enmeshed in it. And supporting a newspaper just continues my lifelong interest in this area. In high school I worked on The Opinion, at the University of Illinois. I worked at the Daily Illini and the high school in Pana, Illinois where I taught for two years. I started the The Pana Pacer, the first newspaper they had had. So you see, I have many reasons for contributing to the San Quentin News.
Thanks for writing, June McKay, Ph. D.

“No one – not even the government itself – has ever been able to specify with any certainty the precise number of federal crimes defined … in the 27,000 or so pages of the U.S. Code.” In the 1980s, lawyers at the Department of Justice estimated that the criminal code contained 3,000 crimes.  Today, the Heritage Foundation estimates the federal laws currently enumerate nearly 5,000 crimes, a number that grows every year.

Holly Harris, Executive Director of the U.S. Justice Action Network, told Foreign Affairs Magazine in “The Prisoner Dilemma”  March /April 2017 www.ForeignAffairs.com

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