Attorney Thomas Nolan has asked his fellow lawyers to contribute word processors called Neos to the staff of the San Quentin News. One respondent, Richard Keyes, said he was on board and then offered the following anecdote:
I used to pick up the San Quentin News in the 1970s when our basketball team went to San Quentin to play against their team. The prisoners always had home games.
One night while riding the bus from Hastings Law School, the San Quentin News helped me out when three males got on the bus, I was the only other passenger, and started planning something. I was in my standard attire, boots, Levis and blue stocking cap. Wondering what they might do, I pulled out my San Quentin News and was reading page one. One of the guys came down the aisle from behind, stopped, and headed to the back telling his conspirators, “That dude is from San Quentin!”
The ride was comfortable after that.