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SPORTS THROWBACKS

May 2, 2022 by San Quentin News

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Filed Under: Recently Posted Tagged With: OG's Perspective, Prison Stories

Prison radio gives a voice to the condemned

May 2, 2022 by Jerry Maleek Gearin

TEXAS  The Tank, at 106.5 FM, is a radio station in a high security Texas prison that gives hundreds of inmates, including 200 on Death Row, a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted Tagged With: Prison Stories

Colorado prisoners feed needy kids

January 29, 2022 by Harry C. Goodall Jr.

Incarcerated people are packing food packages for the needy and finding employable skills at a Colorado prison.  The program at the prison operated … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted Tagged With: Colorado, CoreCivic, Prison Stories

Federal prisons face critical staff shortages

January 14, 2022 by Amir Shabazz

Federal prisons throughout the country are experiencing a huge shortage of prison guards, and using other staff members to fill in, according to The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted Tagged With: Federal Prisons, Prison Stories, United States

Learning the hard way

December 24, 2021 by Carlos Drouaillet

Lifer violates parole, shares the hard lessons he learned with others Not everyone who gets parole makes a success of their life. Some men like … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted Tagged With: life sentence, Opinion, Prison Stories

California allocates $7.5m in reparations for women forcibly, unknowingly sterilized

November 27, 2021 by William Tobert

California has allocated $7.5 million for reparations to survivors who were subjected to state-sponsored sterilization or involuntary sterilization, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: legal, Prison Stories, women in prison

Interviews offer SQ residents chance to share stories of healing

November 19, 2021 by Anthony Manuel Caravalho

San Quentin residents who were locked down for 14 months because of COVID-19 have mixed feelings about the care they received. Nevertheless, some are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Prison Stories, San Quentin State Prison Tagged With: COVID-19, Human Interest, Prison Stories

Grudge match: Two old B-ballers go one-on-one

October 31, 2021 by Timothy Hicks

On July 9, two SQ B-ballers challenged each other to a one-on-one game of basketball. The 2020 DuPont Award-winning and Pulitzer Award-nominated Ear … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: basketball, Prison Stories, SQ Basketball

MOURNING OUR LOSSES Hosts Rememberances

August 31, 2021 by Juan Haines

Chart of the top seven causes of death in 2016, where 334 inmate died in CA. 325 men and nine women

Since May 2020, educators, artists, and organizers – many returning citizens – say they are willing to write, edit and translate humanizing memorials … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: COVID-19, Deaths, Health and Wellness, Opinion, Prison Stories, San Quentin News

Deadliest Day in San Quentin’s History–August 21, 1971

August 31, 2021 by Kevin Sawyer

The deadliest day in San Quentin’s history took place 50 years ago on Aug. 21, 1971. On a single day of violence, three guards and three prisoners … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Most Read Tagged With: Back in the Day, Prison Stories, San Quentin State Prison

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