by Steve Brooks, San Quentin State PrisonOriginally published in Truthout/The Appeal on April 3, 2026 For two years, I walked the lower yard track at San Quentin State Prison, watching construction crews tear down an old furniture factory to build a $239 million Scandinavian-styled learning center. They have now removed the fence blocking the incarcerated population’s view … [Read more...] about CA Should Send Prisoners Home Instead of Spending Millions on New Facilities
News From Inside
Regarding “Inaccessible Rehabilitation at SQRC”
by Kevin D. Sawyer, San Quentin State Prison In the March 2026 issue of All Of Us Or None, there was an open call for people at San Quentin to write AOUON. The question put forward was, “What do you think about the reforms and remodel?” First, I agree that rehabilitation is inaccessible at many prisons within the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation … [Read more...] about Regarding “Inaccessible Rehabilitation at SQRC”
Poem: Second Chance by Darryl Ray Easter
by Darryl Ray Easter, Kern Valley State Prison Shackles on my feet,Held to stand for long ago criminal plans,Blind to living without no sense of direction,Wrong by first impression,Held to jurisdiction discretion,Gavel weighed down by judicial leverage.Awoken from this daydream by confinements,Torments of so much time loss to life,Clocks broken now my hope re-opened,What … [Read more...] about Poem: Second Chance by Darryl Ray Easter
Black Radical Feminisms
by Ghostwrite Mike, Carceral Studies Journalism Guild, Valley State Prison The 1971 essay that opens volume three, issue number four of The Black Scholar, titled “The Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves,” presented a monumental offering penned by Angela Y. Davis while on trial and housed at the Marin County jail. Articulating the continuity between her own jailed … [Read more...] about Black Radical Feminisms
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
