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President of college based at San Quentin receives prestigious national award

By Heather Holmes | February 11, 2025 | Fox 2, KTVU

Beyond Recidivism: Higher Education in Prison with Jody Lewen

By Lisa Petrides | December 11, 2024 | Educating to Be Human

‘I think that there is no higher calling’: 2024 McGraw Prize in Education winners see the impact of their work

By The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education | November 16, 2024 | Penn Graduate School of Education, McGraw Prize in Education

From the Archive

‘Our voice matters’: San Quentin prisoners cast their ballots in mock election

By Julian Glover | October 21, 2024 | ABC7 News

Incarcerated Californians can’t vote. A prison held an election anyway

By Juan Moreno Haines in San Quentin and Sam Levin in Los Angeles | October 21, 2024 | The Guardian

Founder of college based at San Quentin receives prestigious national award

By Dan McMenamin | October 3, 2024 | Local News Matters, Bay Area

Inside the College in Prison that Lowers the Re-arrest Rate by 93%

By Stand Together | August 8, 2024 | Stand Together

Write from Wrong

By Jeff Magnin | August 5, 2024 | The Taft School

Formerly incarcerated immigrant graduates from UC Berkeley, inspires others to pursue dreams

By Crystal Bailey | May 23, 2024 |

Tutoring at San Quentin helped UC Berkeley’s top senior define his future

By Robert Sanders | May 13, 2024 | Berkeley News

California Should Create a New ‘New College’

By Paul Hansen | April 29, 2024 | Inside Higher Ed

Game-Changing Access to Academic Materials in Prison

By Sara Weissman | April 29, 2024 | Inside Higher Ed

The Technological Revolution in Correctional Education: A New Era for Inmates

By Waqas Arain | January 31, 2024 | BBN

‘I Don’t Have to Hide’: After Prison, 2 Students Begin Again

By Mount Tamalpais College | December 10, 2023 |

Race in America: The Conversation (Episode 22)

By NBC Bay Area | November 17, 2023 | NBC Bay Area 

A New Transfer Pathway From Prison to the CSU

By Sara Weissman | October 24, 2023 | Inside Higher Ed

Governor Newsom Names Leading Criminal Justice and Public Safety Experts to San Quentin Transformation Advisory Council

By Office of Governor Gavin Newsom | May 5, 2023 | Office of the Governor of California

Incarcerated Students Can Now Teach at the First Accredited Prison College in the US

By Steven Brooks and Olivia Heffernan | April 12, 2023 | Prism

Heart of Marin awards honor those who make it better

By Marin IJ Editorial Board | April 12, 2023 | Marin Independent Journal

San Quentin Could be the Future of Prisons in America

By Bill Keller | April 12, 2023 | New York Times

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Receives NSF Career Award

By Sandhya Ganesan | April 5, 2023 |

What It Will Take to Transform California’s Most Notorious Prison into a Scandinavian Style Rehabilitation Center

By Scott Shafer | April 4, 2023 | KQED

How Gavin Newsom plans to transform California’s infamous San Quentin State Prison

By Maggie Angst | March 30, 2023 | Sacramento Bee

California to Transform San Quentin Prison Into Center Emphasizing Inmate Rehab

By Jim Carlton | March 20, 2023 | The Wall Street Journal

Finding Purpose in Prison: Bonaru Richarson on the impact of skills development for currently incarcerated people

By Ashley Gaddis | November 30, 2022 | Whiteboard Advisors

Reason 55: An interview with Mount Tamalpais College’s Jody Lewen

By Reason 55 | October 21, 2022 |

Two lifers on the role of college in prison: ‘I found a new habit. Education.’

By Charlotte West | October 20, 2022 |

College, clemency, and inside voices

By Charlotte West | September 12, 2022 | Open Campus/College Inside

Expanding access to quality higher education for the incarcerated: An interview with Mount Tamalpais College’s Jody Lewen

By Brianna Provenzano | August 31, 2022 | NationSwell

8 Innovative Educators in Marin and the Bay Area

By Susan Solomon Yem | August 31, 2022 | Marin Magazine

Nation’s First Standalone Prison Campus Celebrates Graduation

By Joe Garcia | August 12, 2022 | Prison Journalism Project

California Inmates Study at 1st College Based Behind Bars

By Olga R. Rodriguez | April 27, 2022 | Associated Press

San Quentin Prison College Gains Accreditation

By Natalie Hanson | April 8, 2022 | Marin Independent Journal

A New College Makes History with Help from AGB

By Ellen-Earle Chaffee, PhD | February 16, 2022 | AGB

A Newly Accredited College for Incarcerated Students

By Sara Weissman | February 8, 2022 | Inside Higher Ed

First Person: Why College Matters for People Serving Extreme Sentences

By Rahsaan "New York" Thomas | January 19, 2022 | Open Campus

Teaching in Prison: ‘You Have to Respect the Rules’

By Charlotte West/Open Campus | December 30, 2021 | The Crime Report

Mount Tamalpais College Awarded one of 2021 California Nonprofits of the Year

By Mount Tamalpais College | June 25, 2021 |
Students' books and papers in the classroom

Historic Agreement Reached Allowing Laptop Use by Students

By Mount Tamalpais College | June 2, 2021 |

COVID-19 Relief Efforts Expand to Additional Prisons

By Mount Tamalpais College | May 24, 2021 |

Student Steve Brooks Honored by Society of Professional Journalists

By Mount Tamalpais College | February 8, 2021 | Society of Professional Journalists
MTC student, Juan Haines

Student Juan Moreno Haines on COVID-19 Inside San Quentin

By Juan Moreno Haines | August 14, 2020 | The Appeal

An Airbnb for the Formerly Incarcerated

By Lauren Markham | December 16, 2019 | The Atlantic

Dispatches from San Quentin—Is San Quentin State Prison the Future of Prison Reform?

By James King | October 20, 2019 | WitnessLA

At BAMPFA, ‘The San Quentin Project’ Rewrites the History of Prison Imagery

By Roula Seikaly | September 3, 2019 | KQED

2,000 Leaked Photos Show the Cruelty of an Alabama Prison. Should They Be Published?

By Olivia Exstrum | April 19, 2019 | Mother Jones

Remembering Jane E. Kahn

By Toby Rubin | January 8, 2019 | The Jewish News of Northern California

Pete Brook Awarded the Howard Chapnick Grant for Pulitzer Center Supported Incarceration Project

By Peter Brook | November 12, 2018 | Pulitzer Center

Education is Changing Lives at California’s San Quentin Prison

By Jasmine Haywood | October 18, 2018 | Today's Students Tomorrow's Talents

San Quentin—Restore the Right

By Brian Beutler | October 17, 2018 | Crooked Media

Jody Lewen ‘82 Advocates Prison Education

By Madison Li | October 5, 2018 | The Record

Jody Lewen Named Frederick Douglass 200 Awardee

By Mount Tamalpais College | September 20, 2018 | The Guardian

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Aids Programs

By Kevin D. Sawyer | July 30, 2018 | San Quentin News

Foundations Announce 2018 Soros Justice Fellows

By Mount Tamalpais College | July 26, 2018 |

How to Find Truth in Today’s Partisan World—Can Public Philosophy Teach Us to Think?

By Scott Rappaport | June 18, 2018 | UC Santa Cruz

The Dignity of Education in Prison

By Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz | May 4, 2017 | HuffPost

How a Second Chance Led Ex-Con Jay Ly to Some Stinkin Crawfish

By Agnes Constante | October 27, 2016 | NBC News

Expanding Minds Behind Bars

By Nigel Poor and Tommy Shakur Ross | May 4, 2015 | KALW

Crime Pays

By Joe Richman | April 24, 2015 | This American Life

San Quentin’s Prison University Gives Inmates Freedom to Learn

By Greta Kaul | December 27, 2014 | SFGate

Prison.edu—On the Most Effective, Underfunded College System in the US

By Colin Asher | September 14, 2012 | Los Angeles Review of Books

Jody Lewen on the Prison University Project

By Mount Tamalpais College | June 1, 2012 | To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Learning and Trust on the Road to College Readiness at San Quentin

By Jody Lewen | May 3, 2012 | Big Ideas Fest

The Cost of a Nation of Incarceration

By Martha Teichner | April 12, 2012 | CBS News

Inside San Quentin, Inmates Go To College

By Richard Gonzales | June 20, 2011 | NPR

Opinion: The Supreme Court Got it Right on Prison Overcrowding in California

By Stephen Yair Liebb, Héctor Oropeza | June 10, 2011 | Fox News Latino

Prison University Gives Inmates Hope

By JoAnn Mar | March 6, 2011 | Voice of America

Philosophy in Prison

By Damon Horowitz | March 5, 2011 | TEDx2011

Stanford Students Lead Classes in San Quentin Prison

By Adam Gorlick | February 17, 2011 | Stanford News

Prison Break: Inmates at San Quentin Study for Success

By Bohemian.com | August 18, 2010 | Bohemian

Slideshow: San Quentin State Prison’s University

By Rina Palta | July 28, 2010 | KALW News

High Security, Higher Ed: San Quentin’s Prison University Project

By Crosscurrents Producer | July 26, 2010 | KALW News

Tiburon’s Jody Lewen Is Involved in A San Quentin University Project

By Ann Mizel | July 14, 2010 | The Ark

Freeing Minds

By Kathleen Richards | June 1, 2009 | KoreAm Journal

Behind the Scenes: Inside San Quentin’s Prison University Project

By Stan Wilson | February 26, 2009 | CNN

San Quentin’s Campus: A Unique Program Enables Prisoners to Study with Cal Professors and Earn College Credits.

By Kate Rix | October 17, 2008 | The Monthly

Second Chance Programs Quietly Gain Acceptance

By Alan Greenblatt | September 15, 2008 | Congressional Quarterly Weekly

Prisoners’ Progress

By Joy Lazendorfer | October 31, 2007 | Bohemian

Chemistry Behind Bars: While Balancing Equations, Inmates at San Quentin Learn to Balance Their Lives

By Linda Wang | October 22, 2007 | Chemical & Engineering News

Inmates Graduate in San Quentin Ceremony

By Becca Maclaren | June 28, 2007 | Marin Independent Journal

A ‘Zealot’ for Higher Education Wins Award for Teaching at San Quentin

By Carla Bova | April 22, 2007 | Marin Independent Journal

A Visit to San Quentin Prison

By CNN Larry King Live | June 7, 2006 | CNN

Jody Lewen: San Quentin Is A Part Of Marin

By Marin Independent Journal | March 19, 2006 | mij

Geology 101 in Prison

By Megan Sever | August 12, 2005 | Geotimes

California Prisons Put New Focus on Rehabilitation

By Richard Gonzalez | January 19, 2005 | NPR Morning Edition

Focusing California’s Prison System on Correction

By Richard Gonzales | January 18, 2005 | NPR Morning Edition

Death Row Real Estate / Tug of War Over San Quentin’s Future Creates Unusual Alliances

By Jim Doyle | November 12, 2004 | SFGate

School of Hard Knocks / S.F. State Professor Loves Teaching at San Quentin

By Patricia Yollin | March 29, 2004 | SFGate

Learning Under Lockdown

By Gabrielle Banks | March 15, 2003 | ColorLines

Inmates Get Second Chance at Education

By Michelle Munn | February 12, 2003 | Los Angeles Times

Reading, Writing, Reforming / San Quentin Warden Jeanne Woodford Committed to Providing Education for Inmates

By Jim Doyle | February 8, 2002 | SFGate