San Quentin

San Quentin Radio Project: When victims and offenders talk

Tommy Shakur Ross — Wed, 22 May 2013 22:26:06 +0000

Over the past nine months, KALW has been working with inmates in San Quentin State Prison to train them in radio production – the tools for telling their own stories. We’re officially launching The San Quentin Radio Project on KALW later this summer. Today, we’ve got a story to share about how a restorative justice program helped one offender move past his crime. Here’s reporter Tommy Shakur Ross of the San Quentin Radio Project.

The search for redemption: an ex-con's perspective

Nancy Mullane — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:20:00 +0000

Between 2000 and 2009, 57,000 men and women convicted of murder were released from state and federal prison.

By the time convicted murderers are released, they’ve usually served decades behind bars; they’re a generation older than when they went to prison. When they come out, they often fade from view – no sensational headlines, no fanfare. They make their way on the outside in a world that’s can be very different from the one they left.

How can someone who murders re-enter society?

Ali Budner — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 20:15:00 +0000

What ending the death penalty means for inmates

Troy Williams — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:54:29 +0000

California Proposition 34, on the ballot this November, would abolish the death penalty and replace it with life without the possibility of parole. The Attorney Donald Heller originally wrote the ballot measure that reinstated the death penalty in California in 1978. Heller now supports Proposition 34.

The Adjustment Center: Where no one wants to go

Nancy Mullane — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:57:50 +0000

In 1851, the government of the new state of California legalized executions. But it wasn’t until 1891 that the state legislature required all executions take place within the walls of one of the state’s prisons.

The state’s first legal execution by hanging took place March 3, 1893 at San Quentin State Prison. Sixty-year-old José Gabriel was convicted and sentenced to death for killing a farming couple near San Diego.