by Taqwaa Bonner, LSPC Housing Coordinator We want Freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community. - Black Panther Party Ten-Point Program While All of Us or None (AOUON), a project of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC) fights for Black liberation as spelled out in the 10-point program of the Black Panther Party, freedom from … [Read more...] about Black Panther Earth Month
Feature Story
Remembering Jesse Clyde Burleson
Sunrise: March 20, 1969 • Sunset: March 6, 2026 It is with great sadness that we announce the transition of our comrade and brotha Jesse Clyde Burleson. Many of you may remember Jesse from his monthly column, “Jesse’s Corner,” which ran regularly in the AOUON Newspaper between September 2022 and August 2024. Jesse served as LSPC’s In-Custody Program Coordinator for almost … [Read more...] about Remembering Jesse Clyde Burleson
The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution Granted American Women the Right to Vote
by Angel Garza, CSP-Corcoran Carrie Chapman Catt devoted most of her life to the expansion of women’s rights nationwide and around the world and is recognized as one of the key leaders of the American women’s suffrage movement. Her political strategies and organizational skills contributed to the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on August 18, … [Read more...] about The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution Granted American Women the Right to Vote
Who Holds the Power? A Conversation with Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price
by Tanisha Cannon, Ed.D., LSPC Managing Director I have organized, lived, laughed, loved, and prayed with people who have been irreparably harmed by prosecutors by way of prosecutorial misconduct, over zealousness and or outright negligence. Today I sit with families who have lost decades because someone in a DA’s office decided to stack charges and call it justice. For many … [Read more...] about Who Holds the Power? A Conversation with Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price
Black Arts Excellence: André Holland and Yale’s Justice for Everybody Stage The Brothers Size at Valley State Prison
By Dominick J. Porter & Ghostwrite Mike, Carceral Studies Journalism Guild, Valley State Prison The last time a free world theater production of any kind was performed before a confined audience in California was 1957, nearly seventy years ago (Waiting For Godot, San Quentin). Before actor André Holland, star of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Tarell Alvin … [Read more...] about Black Arts Excellence: André Holland and Yale’s Justice for Everybody Stage The Brothers Size at Valley State Prison
