VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 SPRING 2018
Editor-in-Chief Richard Richardson
Senior Editor Juan Haines
Staff Writer Charles David Henry
Staff Writer Kevin D. Sawyer
Columnist Curtis Carroll
Columnist David Jassy
Art Director Jonathan Chiu
Staff Photographer Eddie Herena
SQ PIO Lt. S. Robinson
Warden’s Office Raphaele Casale
CDCR Information Officer II Krissi Khokhobashvili
Adviser William Drummond
Adviser Sarah Horowitz
Adviser Bo Kovitz
Adviser Doug Levy
Adviser Kate McQueen
Emile DeWeaver is a Black community organizer who’s been incarcerated for 20 years. He co-founded Prison Renaissance, a nonprofit organization that uses arts, media, and technology to connect incarcerated people to the communities that need them. He’s also a journalist, writer, and poet published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Mercury News and Colorlines.
Glen Holden spent 45 years behind bars. He expected to stay locked up — until he decided to be honest with himself. Now that he’s back in society, he talks about what it’s like to work his way back into the community. He’s living an inspiring life.