Rebecca Haskell, an outside facilitator working with Veterans Healing Veterans (VHV), has impacted San Quentin’s incarcerated veteran community like … [Read more...]
KidCAT members unite and bid farewell as leadership roles transition
Youth offenders and prisoners focus on incorporating the entire community The latest graduating cycle of KidCAT’s First Step curriculum marked … [Read more...]
Coalition For Justice graduates exemplify commitment to community
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...]
PUP hopes to become nation’s first stand-alone prison campus
The Prison University Project’s (PUP) quest for independent college accreditation— and what that may mean, exactly, for the San Quentin … [Read more...]
Power Source group commemorates first-ever YOP graduation
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...]
Ken Burns brings Country Music to SQ
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...]
Getting a rare second chance in prison: How one youthful offender reclaimed his life with the help of others
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...]
Program coordinator Heather Hart bids farewell to PUP
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...]
Hamilton cast and crew visits San Quentin
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...]
Scholarship recipient overcame a dark and troubled past
“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...]
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