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San Quentin inmates find community through tennis
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoStefan Schneider needed a nickname, or a handle as they call it in prison. So the inmates quickly began brainstorming […] The post San Quentin inmates...
Newsom wants to transform San Quentin State Prison. The council advising him can meet in secret
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom’s planned transformation of San Quentin State Prison into a...
San Quentin chess event unites prisoners, guards to transform lives
KTVU via Yahoo News· 1 week agoPrisoners and guards at San Quentin faced off and partnered up recently to play games of chess in...
Gavin Newsom wanted $380 million for San Quentin reforms. Why advisers suggest a different plan
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 5 months agoOne of California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s top 2023 budget priorities involved securing millions to...
California to transform infamous San Quentin prison with Scandinavian ideas, rehab focus
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 1 year agoGov. Gavin Newsom this week will announce plans to remake San Quentin, one of the state's most...
Oprah believes he's innocent. I hope the court will agree: Free the Buddhist on death row.
USA TODAY Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe first time I met Jarvis Jay Masters, we were on opposite sides of a smeared glass partition in a...
Column: Tinkering with Prop. 47 won't lower crime. Fixing San Quentin will
LA Times via Yahoo News· 5 months agoA plan for reforming San Quentin — and incarceration in California — was released Friday. It's the...
Death row prisoner transfers spark outrage in Southern California community
KTLA articles via Yahoo News· 1 month agoOfficials in two San Bernardino County cities are outraged over the transfer of more than two dozen...
Nashville program brings live music – and hope – to prisons: 'I've seen grown men weep'
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 7 months agoSinger-songwriter Blessing Offor took his seat behind a baby grand piano at a recent show surrounded...
Wayne Kramer’s Rage Against the Prison Machine
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThis article was produced by Capital & Main. It is co-published in partnership with Rolling Stone. In many ways, rock musician Wayne Kramer was a true...