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• Hepatitis C and Medical Care for the Condemned at San Quentin.
• I am writing in regards to the terrible condition of medical treatment here in San Quentin, especially for the condemned.
•  There are many with both high viral count and liver enzymes and the prison refuses to do anything.
• There are also people in here with very high blood pressure and the prison refused to do anything for months. ...  Yet the prison refused to grant them access to a cardiologist or specialist.
•  Their logic was if the diet was necessary, the prisoner could be moved to such a prison.  The problem is San Quentin does not have medical diets, and no condemned can be moved out of San Quentin, so all condemned men, no matter what their medical condition, are denied diets. ... The way they handle it here at San Quentin is they tell everyone they are the right weight or overweight by the antiquated height/weight chart, and before they give any supplements, you must lose 10% of your lean body mass. ...
• As you know, Corey Weinstein (of California Prison Focus) stated maybe 60% of the prison population has hepatitis C. ... The fact is CDC does not want to be burdened with the cost of treating or even testing 60% of the prison population.  With this prison industrial complex building boom, they know with "fair" medical the cost gets monstrous.
• Another thing about HCV is the prison relies only on normalized liver enzymes.  But the fact is there is no way to determine the liver damage or progression of the disease without biopsy (which the prison refuses to give). ...
• That is the condition here at San Quentin for the condemned. ...  However, for the condemned there is not the option of transfer to a medical facility prison.
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• Protesters cheer news at San Quentin gate.
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• Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals earlier in the day had ruled nine to two to send the case back to a federal judge in San Diego because a significant amount of information had surfaced indicating that San Bernardino police had planted and tampered with evidence in order to get a conviction of Cooper in the 1983 deaths of four people.
• The San Francisco office of the ANSWER Coalition immediately activated its phone fax and email network, flooding the Attorney General's office to demand he not appeal the lower court's decision.
• Despite the stay, opponents of the death penalty continued their mobilizing efforts to march on San Quentin, where Kevin Cooper was in a deathwatch cell 12 feet from the execution chamber. ... Arnold Schwarzenegger denied Cooper even the customary clemency hearing that the state of California was hell bent on following through with the execution, despite the growing evidence of Cooper's innocence.
• In recent weeks the Cooper case has galvanized progressive forces around the state and has also become a focus of national attention as sentiment against the death penalty gains momentum. ...
• As media trucks lined up in front of the west gate to San Quentin, hundreds of pro testers started to march the one and a half miles from the Larkspur Ferry to the main gate near the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, which crosses San Francisco Bay. ...
• When the protesters got close to the gate of San Quentin, they were met by another 100 cheering anti-death penalty protesters who had just heard that the U. ...
• Although buoyed by the victory, acti vists left San Quentin knowing that Kevin Cooper's reprieve, which gives him at least 40 days before the state can issue another death warrant, is a period in which the struggle must not just continue to exist but must grow. ...

• San Quentin State Prison.
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• Staff at Centerforce have been providing HIV Prevention Education since 1986 at San Quentin State Prison. Since 1992 we have been evaluating many of these programs in collaboration with the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS), University of California, San Francisco. ...
• The success of these programs can be attributed to the commitment of all those involved: prison administrators, correctional officers, educators and counselors, university researchers, community-based service providers, the inmates themselves and family members. ...
• Collaborative Programs in Prison HIV Prevention.
• All men entering San Quentin are mandated to receive HIV education. ... Twice a year, volunteers are solicited to receive the comprehensive peer education training and then to work as peer educators within the prison. ... Today, peer health educators conduct a variety of services within the prison including teaching the Health Orientation Class for incoming inmates, providing individual counseling for newly diagnosed inmates and helping releasing inmates develop individualized risk reduction plans. ...
• The effectiveness of peer HIV education for male inmates entering state prison. ... Reducing post-release HIV risk among male prison inmates: a peer-led intervention. ...
• We conducted periodic focus groups to assess the service needs of inmates living with HIV, and to get feedback from them about primary prevention programs at the prison. As a result of these focus groups, we developed a two week, 8 session health promotion intervention for HIV+ inmates preparing to be released from prison. ... Reducing postrelease risk behavior among HIV seropositive prison inmates: the Health Promotion Program. ...
• Peer educators also provide individual support for inmates newly diagnosed in prison and for HIV+ inmates who have not been previously incarcerated.
• Programs for Inmates Preparing for Release from Prison.

• From San Quentin to Sing Sing .
• In the early morning hours of January 11, 1955 a 24 year old male African-American was found dead, hanging from a light fixture in his maximum security cell in Mansfield, Ohio's State Prison. ...
• How he got in prison in the first place, and how he had his probation revoked is a story well worth the telling. ...
• When she learned that Ron was breaking his court stipulated 11:00 pm curfew, she notified the police and his probation was revoked and he was sent to Mansfield Prison in southern Ohio. ...
• Following a visit to that prison by that his girl friend, he was thrown in "the hole" where he was found dead the next morning.
• From that day on I pledged myself to dedicate a part of my life to helping the many thousands of youngsters just like my brother who find themselves in prison. Beginning in 1958, at San Quentin State Prison in California I began presenting what I now call Tree of Life Conflict Resolution Seminars. Over these 36 years I have visited perhaps 30 to 40 prisons from San Quentin to Sing-Sing including the Women's Federal Penitentary in Alderston, West Virginia and have written to and received letters from hundreds of inmates.
• Page Two - From San Quentin to Sing-Sing .
• in 1969 had specially selected books of consciousness and self improvement that were particularly inspirational to the African-American inmates who comprise the majority of the prison population in America. ...
• As "Shahid" (a young man who had spent 14 years of his life in 7 different New York State penal institutions since 1975) stated: "I began searching, looking desperately for an answer - and where did I find it? At The Tree of Life Book Store of Harlem. ...
• "I went through pure HELL in prison: experiencing persecution, physical brutality, tension, frustration, etc. ...
• This hunger for the inner knowledge, I even found on the part of the guards who, like the inmates, also spend a large part of their lives in prison. ...
• The prison's punishment taught me nothing. ...

• Prison Meditation Project .
• Free to Succeed Literacy Project Daily literacy and tutoring groups are conducted at San Quentin State Prison 5 nights per week providing one-on-one support and group study halls. ...
• Get Connected Project The Get Connected project is part of a National Corrections Demonstration Project providing peer health education, outreach, and prevention case management for inmates at San Quentin State Prison, Central California Women's Facility, and at Valley State Prison.
• The study measures HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C prevalence and incidence and assesses drug use and sexual risk behavior among incoming inmates at San Quentin State Prison.
• Inside-Out Annual Centerforce Summit Inside-Out is the annual Centerforce conference using interactive presentations, thoughtful dialogue, and vital networking to promote discussion and support between consumers, prison/jail staff, public health workers, and community service providers working with the incarcerated population.
• LIFE Project The Leaders in Future Environments (LIFE) Project provides one-on-one mentoring, annual retreats, and monthly group activities for teenagers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area who have or have had a parent involved in the criminal justice system. ...
• Prison Meditation Project Centerforce instructors teach anger management, stress reduction and spiritual development to inmates and prison custody staff through half-day, full-day and multiple-day programs. ...
• Project Choice Project Choice is an innovative and intensive service system for young men (16-30) leaving San Quentin State Prison and paroling to Oakland, CA. ...
• HIV+ men being released from prison will either receive a family therapy intervention or an individually focused risk reduction comparison intervention. ...
• Provided at San Quentin State Prison, TTC uses co-active coaching training to teach individuals to move out of patterns of victimization and into lives of choice, effectiveness and fulfillment. ...
• Transitional Case Management Program (TCMP) Transitional Case Management Program (TCMP-CF) offers pre-release support and discharge planning to all HIV+ inmates housed at the California Medical Facility and San Quentin State Prison being released to the Bay Area. ... This program also coordinates community linkages for HIV+ inmates from all other prisons throughout California paroling to the San Francisco region.

• Students spend break in prison.
• DOIN' TIME: Twenty-four criminal justice students pose before San Quentin prison as part of a tour organized by SDSU Professor Paul Sutton. ...
• The sounds of iron bars slamming shut not the ocean crashing on the beach is what 24 San Diego State University students experienced during Spring Break.
• Paul Sutton, a criminal justice professor at SDSU, has been setting up these prison tours for 15 years.
• The itinerary included the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo, Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, Salinas Valley State Prison, San Quentin, Federal Correctional in Dublin, California State Prison in Sacramento, Folsom State Prison and Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla.
• She knew she couldn't ask them why they were in prison because the guards said that would be rude.
• He said state-prison tours are possible because tax payers pay for the facilities and therefore have a right to see how they are maintained and run.
• Brown said that before the tour, she signed a release that stated the prison doesn't negotiate for hostages and that family members couldn't sue the prison if something were to happen to her.
• "In San Quentin there are about 4,000 inmates and 100 guards," she said. ...
• Ray Stercl, a public administration senior, said he had a stereotypical picture of what a bad guy in prison would be like: mean, ugly and rude.
• Stercl said drugs are a part of prison life. ...
• Brown said what surprised her most was the lack of privacy in prison. ...
• Stercl said about 40 percent of women in prison are HIV positive and there are very few programs for these women. ...
• Brown, Ramos and Stercl all said they were surprised to see how nice the Women's Federal Correction prison in Dublin was. The prison offers aerobics and pottery classes. ...
• Brown plans to educate inner-city school children on what prison life is really like. ...

• The Children of San Quentin.
• Tucked away along a narrow street that dead-ends at the infamous maximum security lockup's front gate, The House at San Quentin sits in a location that would be dreary under nearly any circumstances. ...
• " As a result, many hide their prison affiliations. San Quentin visits are disguised as trips to grandma's, and missed spouses, boyfriends and dads are assigned imaginary military careers or even buried alive. ...
• "A huge percentage of children who have a father in prison will end up there themselves," according to Resnikoff. ...
• Throughout California's state prison system, there are 26 other visitor centers where similar services are provided. ... Bolstered by state research that shows reduced recidivism when convicts' family and community bonds are maintained, the Centerforce network endeavors to humanize the bleak prison experience while keeping those emotional bridges intact. ...
• Director, The House at San Quentin.
• Thank you for Mike Thomas's sensitive article "San Quentin's Children" in the December 24 issue of the Pacific Sun. ...
• Relatives and children of inmates often feel guilty by association and will hide their prison affiliation in order to protect themselves from society's harsh glare. ...
• The house at San Quentin is an extraordinary place and we warmly welcome volunteers to join us. For more information, please phone (415) 456-4200, FAX 456-4203, or write: The House, 2 Main Street, San Quentin, CA 94964. ...

• A Visit To San Quentin's Death Row.
• SAN FRANCISCO -- As part of their campaign for a new death row in the state, California prison officials opened up San Quentin prison's death row to journalists for the first time in years on Tuesday. ...
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• Walk Of Death -- San Quentin's Death Row .
• Gray Davis and state prison officials to convince Californians it is time to replace the aging facility on the shores of San Francisco Bay. ...
• The state budget Davis has proposed includes $220 million to build a new, state-of-the-art death row at San Quentin prison. The new facility would hold up to 1,000 men awaiting execution, allowing for a big expansion from the state's current death row of 615, officials said. ...
• Davis' proposal for a costly new death row comes amid the worst financial crisis in state history. ...
• Faced with a multi-billion-dollar budget shortfall, Davis suggested the San Quentin expansion -- if approved by the state Legislature -- be funded with bonds. ...
• California's current death row is a hodge-podge of prison facilities, some of which previously were used to house inmates with lesser sentences, said Bob Martinez, a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections. ...
• The state averages more than 20 death sentences a year, but only about one execution, Martinez said. ...
• "It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that the reality is, it will continue to grow," Martinez said of the state's death row population. ...
• The aging facility is difficult to use, he said, and results in higher overtime and workers compensation costs for the state. ...

• San Quentin Journal.
• These are some of the most difficult and sometimes dangerous inmates at San Quentin. ...
• I've worked as an Administrative Segregation Psychologist at San Quentin State Prison for almost a year now, and have often come home with a thought or story. ... San Quentin is a 150 year old prison is California, near San Francisco. ... Administative Segregation is the "prison within the prison," the place where inmates who have broken prison rules are placed for additional punishment. ...
• I've been working at San Quentin State Prison for almost a year now, and want to share some of my impressions. ...

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• For a century and a half, San Quentin State Prison has been a monument to failed potential, a final destination for poor judgment and bad luck. ...
• Buoyed by a state report last July that examined the possibility of closing the famed penitentiary, and suggested what could follow, Marin County supervisors this month authorized a 16-member panel to begin looking at options to reuse the 275-acre site. ...
• Closing San Quentin is ultimately a matter of when, not if. ... Its antiquated design poses numerous safety risks for guards and, potentially, the public as well: The only successful jailbreak from a state prison last year was at San Quentin. ...
• The spit of land on which the prison sits is virtually without equal in the Bay Area, a waterfront site with panoramic views of San Francisco and the East Bay. ...
• The prison sits near to Marin's main ferry terminal, a few minutes drive from U. ... 101 and a stone's throw from the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. ...
• The state department of general service's report says as much: Each of its suggested reuses of the site adds a large quantity of housing, though the proposals range from 500 new homes to more than 3,500. ...
• It's no coincidence that Marin cities are among the worst in complying with state laws to facilitate homebuilding. ...
• To their credit, in the case of San Quentin, Marin County supervisors and other civic leaders seem to have grasped an essential economic point: The state's not going to pay $700 million to move 6,000 inmates simply so Marinites have an additional place to walk dogs, ride bikes or practice tai chi. If the prison closes, some development to pay the tab is inevitable. ...
• San Quentin, if and when it closes, represents a rare opportunity to address these problems. ...
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• Campus volunteers bring education to San Quentin .
• Dennis Pratt, left, and George Lamb — graduates of the college program at San Quentin State Prison — celebrate at a June 2002 commencement ceremony. ...
• Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of power, betrayal, and murder has struck a chord with these students — all inmates at San Quentin State Prison. ...
• Ginsberg is one of 60 people from throughout the Bay Area — most of them Berkeley graduate students, a few of them campus faculty and staff — who teach college classes at San Quentin. The two-year associate’s degree program, accredited by Patten College, a Christian college located in Oakland, has for a number of years been the sole onsite degree-granting program at any of California’s 33 state prisons. Since its inception in 1996 — around the same time that Congress banned federal tuition-assistance to prisoners and California ended public funding for higher education in state prisons — it has been kept alive entirely by volunteers. ...
• That college classes exist at all inside San Quentin — a medium-security prison in Marin County — is due, in part, to the prison’s fortuitous location in an area rife with well-educated people willing to teach in a penal institution. ...
• San Quentin — which opened in 1852, before most Bay Area educational institutions, and now within close proximity of numerous colleges and universities — is an exception. ... Over the years, it has provided a steady stream of graduate students, who have traveled to San Quentin to teach math, film studies, ethics, South African and Latin American history, astronomy, and dozens of other subjects.
• Jody Lewen, who completed her PhD in rhetoric last month, taught communications, composition, critical thinking, and literature in San Quentin for two years before she became head of the program in 2000. ...
• “I knew it was a good idea to provide education to inmates,” she recalls, “but I wasn’t sure I wanted to go into a prison. ...
• In November, thanks to a grant from a private donor, Patten College hired Lewen as assistant professor of literature and head of the San Quentin college program, making her its first paid director.
• Running a college program inside a prison, it turns out, involves all the usual pedagogic challenges, plus a wealth of practical obstacles and moral dilemmas that educators on the outside seldom face. ...
• Despite such obstacles, the San Quentin college program offers both a rare and sought-after opportunity for inmates and an incomparable learning and teaching experience for most volunteers. ...
• Kathleen McCarthy, a Berkeley associate professor of classics and comparative literature, has been a guest lecturer in Ancient History at San Quentin, and a teaching assistant for a literature class.
• ” San Quentin students “immediately wanted to draw parallels to American democracy and its limitations,” she says. ...

• Setting It Straight: A page A1 story in some Tuesday editions incorrectly stated the reason death-row inmate Kevin Cooper was previously incarcerated in Chino State Prison. ...
• SAN QUENTIN - Condemned killer Kevin Cooper was granted a reprieve Monday, hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection for killing two adults and two children in 1983.
• Circuit Court of Appeals stand, denying the state's application to reverse it. ...
• By a stronger 9-to-2 margin, the judges also ordered a test of a bloody T-shirt used by prosecutors to connect Cooper to the quadruple murder scene in San Bernardino County, not far from Chino State Prison, from which Cooper had escaped.
• A cheer went up among the 75 to 80 protesters gathered at the east gate of San Quentin State Prison when actor Mike Farrell of Death Penalty Focus told them of the Supreme Court's action.
• , when the circuit judges issued their ruling, the state's lawyers already had applied to the U. ...
• The attorney general's office argued that the stay violated the justices' own pronouncements against last-minute federal intervention in state executions, as well as a federal law that limits appeals from the states' death rows.
• Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who is the court's liaison with the 9th Circuit, referred the state's request to the full court, which gave no explanation for its rejection.
• Ryen, who had been left to die in the attack, was preparing to enter the prison grounds with other victim witnesses to the execution when he was notified that the execution was off.
• Prison spokesman Vernell Crittendon said Cooper was pleased when he heard about the 9th Circuit's order but "confused" at 6:30 p. ...
• The circuit court's ruling, which listed no individual author, showed a court deeply troubled by half a dozen discrepancies in the case and by new information, supplied by a former prison warden, indicating that prosecutors may have violated their duty to disclose evidence favorable to the defense.
• Although Cooper's jury was told that the shoe style was manufactured strictly for distribution in prisons, Midge Carroll, then warden at the Chino prison where Cooper had been incarcerated for rape and murder, signed a declaration last week saying that the shoes were "common tennis shoes available to the general public. ...
• Prison spokesman Crittendon said Cooper was "extremely relieved" at the news of the court's ruling. ...
• Lockyer said the state would do what it could to expedite the remaining litigation.
• The public debate over Cooper's guilt had grown in recent weeks, prompting rallies throughout the state on his behalf.
• While the protesters awaited word at San Quentin's east gate on whether Cooper would be executed, the Rev. ...

• « HOME | NewsEmail This Story    Print This Story DVI Inmates Moved To San Quentin After Riot.
• SAN QUENTIN, Calif. -- Inmates at San Quentin State Prison are seeing some new faces this week after a riot at a state prison in Tracy resulted in the transfer of 285 inmates to the Marin County facility, according to prison officials. ...
• Prison officials are not sure what sparked the riot, which involved about 390 of the dorm's occupants, but Rackley said that once the melee began, the fight was clearly divided along racial lines. ...
• Prison guards spent nearly an hour bringing the riot under control, which they did using "various chemical agents" and other "non-deadly weapons," according to Rackley. ...
• There was no risk of the inmates escaping from the prison, Rackley added. ...
• No prison staff members sustained any serious injuries during the riot. ...
• All of the injured inmates have since been treated and returned to the prison. ...
• The 420 inmates who resided there have been transferred to other areas of the DVI prison and divided into cells containing two prisoners each. ...
• To make room for all of the Z dorm inmates, 285 new inmates from the prison's reception center, where incoming prisoners from county jails are processed into the state prison system, were transferred to San Quentin. ...
• So far, the transition of the new arrivals into San Quentin has gone smoothly, according to San Quentin spokesman Vernell Crittendon. ...
• He did not know how long the new prisoners would stay at San Quentin, but he said the move may not be short-term. ...
• Rackley said that he did not consider the inmates' self-imposed racial segregation to be a new phenomenon in the prison system. ...
• While prison officials normally house inmates of all races together, Rackley said that they would not assign a white inmate to the same bunk bed as a black inmate. ...
• Prison officials are reviewing surveillance videos from the night of the fight to try to determine what sparked the melee and who was at fault. ...

• American Idyll - San Quentin, CA, 2001.
• American Idyll - San Quentin, CA, 2001.
• Storm Over San Quentin State Prison, 2001.
• Storm Over San Quentin State Prison, 2001.
• Storm Over San Quentin State Prison, 2001.

• The state of California wants to kill Kevin Cooper.
• But people across the state are raising their voices in various forums to send a message to the "Governator": We oppose this state-sponsored murder.
• Kevin’s supporters across the state and the country plan to flood the governor’s office with phone calls, faxes and e-mails to demand action from Schwarzenegger. A full-page ad pleading Kevin’s case--and signed by hundreds of people, including Howard Zinn, Danny Glover, Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis, Janeane Garofalo and many others--will appear in the San Jose Mercury News and the West Coast edition of the New York Times.
• Despite technical difficulties, Kevin himself spoke to the meeting via speakerphone from death row in San Quentin prison. The night before, activists gathered at San Francisco State University for a fundraiser--which featured music by Michael Franti--to pay for the ad.
• On January 29, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the former boxer who spent 18 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, joined others to bring their message to Schwarzenegger in Sacramento. ...
• No satisfactory explanation was given for the removal, and yet the state has consistently refused to do tests that could show if the evidence was tampered with.
• And both state and federal courts have refused to do anything about it.
• This despite the fact that a San Francisco Chronicle readers’ poll showed that 69 percent of Californians want him to stop the execution.
• Abolitionists want to turn up the heat on the governor about Cooper’s case with the February 3 day of action, and a march to San Quentin prison on February 9. ...
• As Cooper--himself a tireless activist who has helped to lead a campaign to abolish the racist death penalty from inside prison--puts it, "I know that the death penalty is not only about me, Kevin Cooper, but is much, much bigger. ...
• -- Join a February 9 march to San Quentin Prison, or other protests planned for cities across the state. ...

•  State.
• By: Associated Press SAN QUENTIN -- Plans for a $220 million expansion of San Quentin State Prison's death row are moving forward, despite opposition from a number of elected officials. ...
• Funding was included in this year's state budget for the project, which calls for construction of a 535,000-square-foot death row complex with 1,024 prison cells on the southwestern portion of the 432-acre prison.
• Prison officials for years have asked for improvements in the prison's ancient death row, which was built in 1934. ... Assemblyman Joe Nation, D-San Rafael, and other Marin officials, such as Marin County Supervisor Steve Kinsey, are opposed and are working to derail it. "One of the things that has never been demonstrated to me is that San Quentin makes economic sense," Nation said. "In fact, I think that San Quentin probably does not make economic sense because it is such an old facility and the operating costs are so high. "Nation and Kinsey look at the prison and see the perfect place for a ferry terminal that could be linked to an envisioned Sonoma-to-Marin commuter rail line. Earlier this year, Nation persuaded the Joint Legislative Audit Committee to order a thorough analysis of the San Quentin plan and compare it with potential costs and benefits of moving death row to Folsom. ... 5 million to Sonoma State University. ... "We are extremely pleased with the generosity of the tribe and its decision to invest in the academic excellence of the students and faculty of Sonoma State University," SSU President Ruben Arminana said. ...

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• Article title: State Focusing on Preteens in Crack Down on Prison Drug Trafficking .
• Source: The San Francisco Chronicle.
• Advocates for prisoners, including San Francisco-based Legal Services for Prisoners With Children (LSPWC), are speaking out against California's proposal to prohibit children over the age of seven from sitting on their fathers' laps when visiting them in prison. ... " Mark Martin, State Focusing on Preteens in Crack Down on Prison Drug Trafficking, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mar. ...
• " The state has repeatedly told Long Island's two counties, Nassau and Suffolk, that inmates who are actively suicidal must be watched at all times since it is possible for a person to fatally hang herself in less than five minutes. Advocates and state officials say that inmates who were identified as being actively suicidal or mentally ill and who committed suicide while in custody were monitored only every 15 to 30 minutes. ... Jail officials have made changes to comply with state recommendations, but, according to Newsday, some of them say that complying with such mandates is expensive and is difficult to accomplish when local government is pressuring them to cut costs. ...
• Elert title: Prison Law Office (Cal. ...
• Article title: Some Want to Evict "Worst of the Worst" From San Quentin .
• Steve Fama, an attorney with Prison Law Office (Cal. ), which provides civil legal representation to prisoners, expresses concern that a proposal to move 30 inmates at the San Quentin State Prison (Cal. ) who are considered "most troublesome" to the California State Prison, a more modern facility in Sacramento, California, will reduce inmates' access to legal services. The proposal arose after a significant increase in guards being attacked by prisoners at San Quentin's Adjustment Center, where inmates deemed to be "most troublesome" are housed. Fama suggests that the San Quentin facility should undertake an investigation to examine whether the rising guard attacks underscore other problems at the Adjustment Center and says, "The idea that moving 10 or 20 inmates. ... " Michelle Locke, Some Want to Evict "Worst of the Worst" From San Quentin, Associated Press Newswires, June 29, 2001, page reference unavailable.
• " Rothberger's comments come in the wake of an uprising at the Dartmouth facility in which inmates took one guard hostage and destroyed property at the prison. ...

• This past weekend, I visited San Quentin State Prison to play basketball. The second I utter these words or the second you read them, I can imagine your brain juicing up with images of chain gangs, black and white horizontal stripes and other Hollywood portrayals of prison. ...
• Maybe it was the fact that San Quentin houses the only electric chair, gas chamber and death row for men in California (unlikely). ...
• At any rate, I did learn something very important about myself while I was in the confines of the prison — I am out of shape. ...
• The sights I saw within San Quentin are images that 75 percent of Americans will never see ("Shawshank Redemption," "Con Air" and "Jailhouse Rock" don't count). ... Sadly, quite a few fallacies about prison will continue to run rampant because there are so few people who have actually seen the inside of a prison. ...
• I now know that people in prison are not prisoners, they are just people. ... " I now realize prison isn't two corners of the Monopoly board anymore, it is real. ...
• As a matter of fact, there really isn't much separating a person in prison and a freshman at UC Berkeley. Both live in shitty housing that is too small and is built by the state. ...
• However, there is one very large difference between the two populations — not the tattoos nor the size of their biceps — the people in prison got caught. ... People in prison were doing an unlawful thing at the wrong place, at the wrong time; most people not in prison were, and are, doing unlawful things at the right places at the right times. ...
• I'm not saying that people in prison are like Mother Teresa, I'm just saying that not all people that end up there are like Charles Manson. One of the guys I met said it best when he told me, "There are two types of people in here (San Quentin): normal guys like you and your buddies and guys that don't care about others or themselves. " He not only summed up San Quentin's prison population, but the population of the entire world. ...
• He also brought up another good point about our beloved prison system. ...

• State College.
• Inmates get degrees, aid post-prison prospects.
• Despite public unease and loss of funds, college classes continue at San Quentin and elsewhere.
• SAN QUENTIN - Jesse Reed studied nights and weekends to get his associate arts degree, squeezing in extra hours with the lamp turned low to avoid annoying his roommate.
• That's as far as he can go for now at his alma mater, San Quentin State Prison, which runs an all-volunteer program with the help of a small private college.
• Proponents argue that programs pay off by producing inmates more likely to stay out of prison when they're released, but the programs remain highly unpopular with many.
• Reed, who is serving 25-to-life for murder, was among the first students to sign up when San Quentin's college classes started in 1988, with teachers and textbooks provided by Patten College, a nondenominational private college in Oakland.
• So far, about a half-dozen prison alumni have completed their coursework at Patten following their release, and a few have gone on to graduate schools.
• Reed's studies were interrupted when he was transferred to a prison without higher education. ... The state funds programs to teach inmates vocational skills and get their high school diploma but will not pay for college.
• 'Why should somebody who commits a crime get a free ride to college?' That's the position of the state and the Legislature and probably most of the people of California," said Terry Thornton, spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections.
• Supporters of college in prison point to studies, such as one by researchers at the Graduate Center, City University of New York that found that 8 percent of women who took college courses in New York prisons were reincarcerated within three years of their release. ...
• Programs across the country vary, but perhaps about 25 states have some sort of postsecondary education in prison, said Richard Tewksbury, a professor of justice administration at the University of Louisville. ...
• In California, money for the San Quentin program dried up in 1994, but the program "took on a life of its own," said Moncher.
• Today, about 200 inmates attend college classes at the prison's Robert E. ...
• But correction officials say prison education not only produces inmates less likely to return to prison on their release, it also produces inmates who are better behaved while they're in prison.

• APA Inmate Challenges Prison Segregation Policies.
• An Asian Pacific American inmate at Avenal State Prison is challenging the racially segregated housing and discriminatory discipline policies at San Quentin State Prison and the California Department of Corrections (CDC) — practices that violate the 14th Amendment of the U. ...
• In November 2001, Viet Mike Ngo, 33, petitioned the Marin County Superior Court for a writ of habeas corpus regarding San Quentin’s alleged violation of an inmate’s guaranteed equal protection under the law.
• “San Quentin uses three racial/ethnic categories for the purpose of segregating inmates in cells (double-celling) and during lockdowns,” Ngo wrote in the petition. ...
• Ngo is serving 17 years to life at Avenal State Prison for the shooting death of a juvenile in 1988.
• Segregation causes “violence and xenophobia,” said Carbone, of California Prison Focus. ...
• &mac253;ccording to Carbone, 98 percent of all prisoners at San Quentin are housed with someone of the same race. ...
• “The prison locks down prisoners solely according to race, and prisoners who request to live with a person of another race are almost always denied,” said Carbone. ...
• Carbone said that San Quentin Warden Jeanne Woodford admitted only that the prison uses race as the factor when conducting a lockdown. ... The CDC claims the segregation that does exist is in response to prison gangs, rather than the department’s social policy.
• Jared Sexton, a former instructor in the San Quentin College Program, met Ngo in 1999 and said Ngo sought outside support once the writ was granted an evidentiary hearing. He was told that the hearing was delayed for a long time because of a stalemate at San Quentin and the CDC.
• But Sexton and other activists say the delay was a retaliation taken by the prison against Ngo for his endeavors.
• “His route from San Quentin to Avenal State Prison has been torturous and is directly related to the important implications of the litigation he’s pursuing. ...
• Ngo’s case involved two parts: the failure of the administrative appeals process at San Quentin and the illegal policy of racial segregation. ...
• “By throwing grievances into a bureaucratic black hole, the prison averts having to address prisoners’Ç real issues and dodges accountability for the grievances prisoners suffer,” Luk said.

• Prison Meditation Project .
• The Leaders in Future Environments (LIFE) Project provides one-on-one mentoring, annual retreats, and monthly group activities for teenagers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area who have or have had a parent involved in the criminal justice system. ...
• Daily literacy and tutoring groups are conducted at San Quentin State Prison 5 nights per week providing one-on-one support and group study halls. ...
• The Get Connected project is part of a National Corrections Demonstration Project providing peer health education, outreach, and prevention case management for inmates at San Quentin State Prison, Central California Women's Facility, and at Valley State Prison.
• Prison Meditation Project.
• Centerforce instructors teach anger management, stress reduction and spiritual development to inmates and prison custody staff through half-day, full-day and multiple-day programs. ...
• Provided at San Quentin State Prison, TTC uses co-active coaching training to teach individuals to move out of patterns of victimization and into lives of choice, effectiveness and fulfillment. ...
• Project Choice is an innovative and intensive service system for young men (16-30) leaving San Quentin State Prison and paroling to Oakland, CA. ...
• HIV+ men being released from prison will either receive a family therapy intervention or an individually focused risk reduction comparison intervention. ...
• Transitional Case Management Program (TCMP-CF) offers pre-release support and discharge planning to all HIV+ inmates housed at the California Medical Facility and San Quentin State Prison being released to the Bay Area. ... This program also coordinates community linkages for HIV+ inmates from all other prisons throughout California paroling to the San Francisco region. ...
• Inside-Out is the annual Centerforce conference using interactive presentations, thoughtful dialogue, and vital networking to promote discussion and support between consumers, prison/jail staff, public health workers, and community service providers working with the incarcerated population.

• Killer Executed at San Quentin Crime: .
• SAN QUENTIN -- Stephen Wayne Anderson photo on the right was executed by lethal injection early this morning, two decades after he went to death row for shooting a San Bernardino County grandmother and then, authorities said, cooking noodles in her kitchen while she died.
• Around midnight--after federal judges were unswayed by a desperate campaign for a reprieve--Anderson, 48, was dressed in new denim pants and a blue work shirt and led into the San Quentin State Prison death chamber.
• Authorities locked down the prison hours earlier as part of an extraordinary security routine reserved for execution nights.
• A few dozen protesters, representing the nation's deep division over the use of execution as a punishment or deterrent for crime, gathered outside the main gate of California's oldest correctional institution, north of San Francisco.
• Donald Ames, a San Bernardino County attorney whose bumbling trial work forced courts to throw out two other killers' death sentences.

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• printable version - email this article San Quentin Vigil Arrests by Terry Burke aka elbop Sunday, Feb. ... / Pasadena, CA 91101 Report form the February 3, 2004 vigil and civil disobedience action at San Quentin. Stop the Killing: At San Quentin, In Our Neighborhoods, Iraq and the World. Imagine Affinity Group, The Religious Imperative to Stop State Murder and Others hold an all night vigil and in the morning, 4 are arrested. ...
• Paul Sawyer at San Quentin, also posted at: http://www. ... cgi?file=Issues&report=SingleArticle&ArticleID=0250 Terry aka elbop ========================== At 12:01 am on Tuesday, February 10, 2004, the State of California plans to execute a man named Kevin Cooper, held on death row since his conviction for murder in 1985. ... Paul Sawyer and I drove away from the warm and comfortable homes of our friends in Berkeley and San Francisco into the rainy night toward San Quentin Prison in northern California. ... Members of the Imagine Affinity Group and The Religious Imperative to Stop State Murder have gathered at the gates of San Quentin to witness and resist the killing at every execution since April 1992 when Robert Alton Harris was put to death in the San Quentin gas chamber. This association of nonviolent activists goes back to the 1960's and has been active ever since, standing with dignity in resistance to all forms of killing in the name of the State. From Militarism and Wars of Aggression, to the Nuclear Terror designed in the weapons labs of Public Universities, to the Prison Industrial Complex and its corrupt system of injustice, to the slow death by Impoverishment and Social Neglect in the neighborhoods of working people all over the nation and the world. ... Our all night vigil began when we made a rendezvous with a long time companion, another man named Kevin on the empty late night streets of San Rafael. ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At 11:45 pm, we arrived in the surreally quaint village that lines the quiet road to the prison and found a place to park at the edge of the State property. Small gingerbread houses face a beautiful scene, looking over the San Francisco Bay. ... The prison is on a site named for a local Miwok Indian called Quintin, who was a fierce defender of his land against the conquering Spaniards who colonized the area in the early 1800s. ... The site became a State Prison after it was purchased for ten thousand dollars from an American land speculator in 1852.

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