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SQ veterans lose innovative facilitator Rebecca Haskell

October 23, 2019 by Joe Garcia

Rebecca Haskell, an outside facilitator working with Veterans Healing Veterans (VHV), has impacted San Quentin’s incarcerated veteran community like … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted Tagged With: Joe Garcia, Rebecca Haskell, Rehabilitation Corner, SQ veterans

KidCAT members unite and bid farewell as leadership roles transition

October 23, 2019 by Joe Garcia

Youth offenders and prisoners focus on incorporating the entire community The latest graduating cycle of KidCAT’s First Step curriculum marked … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Recently Posted Tagged With: Joe Garcia, KidCAT, youth offenders

Coalition For Justice graduates exemplify commitment to community

September 11, 2019 by Joe Garcia

San Quentin’s Coalition For Justice (CFJ) celebrated the completion of its latest graduating class—Cycle 15. CFJ’s primary focus in- volves … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted Tagged With: Coalition For Justice, Cycle 15, Joe Garcia

PUP hopes to become nation’s first stand-alone prison campus

September 11, 2019 by Joe Garcia

The Prison University Project’s (PUP) quest for independent college accreditation— and what that may mean, exactly, for the San Quentin … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted Tagged With: Joe Garcia, Prison University Project’s (PUP), Rehabilitation Corner

Power Source group commemorates first-ever YOP graduation

September 11, 2019 by Joe Garcia

San Quentin youth offenders came together on their own—in a grassroots ceremony on June 23, to commemorate the first-ever graduating cycle of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book/Movie Reviews, Featured, Recently Posted Tagged With: Joe Garcia, Power Source group

Ken Burns brings Country Music to SQ

September 10, 2019 by Joe Garcia

Ken Burns, Julie Dunfey and Dayton Duncan hosting a Q&A for their PBS documentary Country Music

Ken Burns came to the San Quentin chapel and delivered an exclusive prison screening of his latest American gospel, Country Music. The July 24 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Book/Movie Reviews, Featured, Recently Posted Tagged With: Country Music at SQ, Joe Garcia, Ken Burns

Getting a rare second chance in prison: How one youthful offender reclaimed his life with the help of others

August 14, 2019 by Joe Garcia

Ryan Dietz arrived at San Quentin in 2016 ready to succumb to all the usual pitfalls that await youth of- fenders—substance abuse, cellphone activity … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Recently Posted, YOUTH OFFENDERS Tagged With: Joe Garcia, kid cat

Program coordinator Heather Hart bids farewell to PUP

August 12, 2019 by Joe Garcia

San Quentin’s Prison University Project (PUP) waved goodbye to Program Coordinator Heather Hart on July 3. But she leaves intent on continuing her … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Heather Hart, Institutions, Joe Garcia, SQ PUP

Hamilton cast and crew visits San Quentin

August 12, 2019 by Joe Garcia

The world proved wide enough for San Quentin prisoners and the San Francisco production of Hamilton to come together as one community. At the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Recently Posted Tagged With: Hamilton cast, Joe Garcia, SQNews

Scholarship recipient overcame a dark and troubled past

July 10, 2019 by Joe Garcia

“I only knew what others had told me: that I was worthless, stupid, and a failure” Prison taught Daniel Hen- son the value of education, and now he … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Most Read Tagged With: Joe Garcia, KidCAT

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