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MTC in the News
President of college based at San Quentin receives prestigious national award
By Heather Holmes
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February 11, 2025 |
Fox 2, KTVU
Beyond Recidivism: Higher Education in Prison with Jody Lewen
By Lisa Petrides
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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
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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
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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
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October 21, 2024 |
The Guardian
Founder of college based at San Quentin receives prestigious national award
By Dan McMenamin
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October 3, 2024 |
Local News Matters, Bay Area
Inside the College in Prison that Lowers the Re-arrest Rate by 93%
By Stand Together
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August 8, 2024 |
Stand Together
Write from Wrong
By Jeff Magnin
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August 5, 2024 |
The Taft School
Formerly incarcerated immigrant graduates from UC Berkeley, inspires others to pursue dreams
By Crystal Bailey
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May 23, 2024 |
Tutoring at San Quentin helped UC Berkeley’s top senior define his future
By Robert Sanders
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May 13, 2024 |
Berkeley News
California Should Create a New ‘New College’
By Paul Hansen
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April 29, 2024 |
Inside Higher Ed
Game-Changing Access to Academic Materials in Prison
By Sara Weissman
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April 29, 2024 |
Inside Higher Ed
The Technological Revolution in Correctional Education: A New Era for Inmates
By Waqas Arain
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January 31, 2024 |
BBN
‘I Don’t Have to Hide’: After Prison, 2 Students Begin Again
By Mount Tamalpais College
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December 10, 2023 |
Race in America: The Conversation (Episode 22)
By NBC Bay Area
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November 17, 2023 |
NBC Bay Area
A New Transfer Pathway From Prison to the CSU
By Sara Weissman
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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
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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
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April 12, 2023 |
Prism
Heart of Marin awards honor those who make it better
By Marin IJ Editorial Board
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April 12, 2023 |
Marin Independent Journal
San Quentin Could be the Future of Prisons in America
By Bill Keller
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April 12, 2023 |
New York Times
Assistant Professor of Chemistry Receives NSF Career Award
By Sandhya Ganesan
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April 5, 2023 |
What It Will Take to Transform California’s Most Notorious Prison into a Scandinavian Style Rehabilitation Center
By Scott Shafer
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April 4, 2023 |
KQED
How Gavin Newsom plans to transform California’s infamous San Quentin State Prison
By Maggie Angst
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March 30, 2023 |
Sacramento Bee
California to Transform San Quentin Prison Into Center Emphasizing Inmate Rehab
By Jim Carlton
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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
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November 30, 2022 |
Whiteboard Advisors
Reason 55: An interview with Mount Tamalpais College’s Jody Lewen
By Reason 55
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October 21, 2022 |
Two lifers on the role of college in prison: ‘I found a new habit. Education.’
By Charlotte West
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October 20, 2022 |
College, clemency, and inside voices
By Charlotte West
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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
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August 31, 2022 |
NationSwell
8 Innovative Educators in Marin and the Bay Area
By Susan Solomon Yem
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August 31, 2022 |
Marin Magazine
Nation’s First Standalone Prison Campus Celebrates Graduation
By Joe Garcia
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August 12, 2022 |
Prison Journalism Project
California Inmates Study at 1st College Based Behind Bars
By Olga R. Rodriguez
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April 27, 2022 |
Associated Press
San Quentin Prison College Gains Accreditation
By Natalie Hanson
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April 8, 2022 |
Marin Independent Journal
A New College Makes History with Help from AGB
By Ellen-Earle Chaffee, PhD
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February 16, 2022 |
AGB
A Newly Accredited College for Incarcerated Students
By Sara Weissman
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February 8, 2022 |
Inside Higher Ed
First Person: Why College Matters for People Serving Extreme Sentences
By Rahsaan "New York" Thomas
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January 19, 2022 |
Open Campus
Teaching in Prison: ‘You Have to Respect the Rules’
By Charlotte West/Open Campus
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December 30, 2021 |
The Crime Report
Mount Tamalpais College Awarded one of 2021 California Nonprofits of the Year
By Mount Tamalpais College
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June 25, 2021 |
Historic Agreement Reached Allowing Laptop Use by Students
By Mount Tamalpais College
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June 2, 2021 |
COVID-19 Relief Efforts Expand to Additional Prisons
By Mount Tamalpais College
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May 24, 2021 |
Student Steve Brooks Honored by Society of Professional Journalists
By Mount Tamalpais College
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February 8, 2021 |
Society of Professional Journalists
Student Juan Moreno Haines on COVID-19 Inside San Quentin
By Juan Moreno Haines
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August 14, 2020 |
The Appeal
An Airbnb for the Formerly Incarcerated
By Lauren Markham
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December 16, 2019 |
The Atlantic
Dispatches from San Quentin—Is San Quentin State Prison the Future of Prison Reform?
By James King
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October 20, 2019 |
WitnessLA
At BAMPFA, ‘The San Quentin Project’ Rewrites the History of Prison Imagery
By Roula Seikaly
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September 3, 2019 |
KQED
2,000 Leaked Photos Show the Cruelty of an Alabama Prison. Should They Be Published?
By Olivia Exstrum
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April 19, 2019 |
Mother Jones
Remembering Jane E. Kahn
By Toby Rubin
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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
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November 12, 2018 |
Pulitzer Center
Education is Changing Lives at California’s San Quentin Prison
By Jasmine Haywood
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October 18, 2018 |
Today's Students Tomorrow's Talents
San Quentin—Restore the Right
By Brian Beutler
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October 17, 2018 |
Crooked Media
Jody Lewen ‘82 Advocates Prison Education
By Madison Li
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October 5, 2018 |
The Record
Jody Lewen Named Frederick Douglass 200 Awardee
By Mount Tamalpais College
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September 20, 2018 |
The Guardian
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Aids Programs
By Kevin D. Sawyer
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July 30, 2018 |
San Quentin News
Foundations Announce 2018 Soros Justice Fellows
By Mount Tamalpais College
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July 26, 2018 |
How to Find Truth in Today’s Partisan World—Can Public Philosophy Teach Us to Think?
By Scott Rappaport
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June 18, 2018 |
UC Santa Cruz
The Dignity of Education in Prison
By Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz
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May 4, 2017 |
HuffPost
How a Second Chance Led Ex-Con Jay Ly to Some Stinkin Crawfish
By Agnes Constante
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October 27, 2016 |
NBC News
Expanding Minds Behind Bars
By Nigel Poor and Tommy Shakur Ross
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May 4, 2015 |
KALW
Crime Pays
By Joe Richman
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April 24, 2015 |
This American Life
San Quentin’s Prison University Gives Inmates Freedom to Learn
By Greta Kaul
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December 27, 2014 |
SFGate
Prison.edu—On the Most Effective, Underfunded College System in the US
By Colin Asher
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September 14, 2012 |
Los Angeles Review of Books
Jody Lewen on the Prison University Project
By Mount Tamalpais College
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June 1, 2012 |
To The Best Of Our Knowledge
Learning and Trust on the Road to College Readiness at San Quentin
By Jody Lewen
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May 3, 2012 |
Big Ideas Fest
The Cost of a Nation of Incarceration
By Martha Teichner
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April 12, 2012 |
CBS News
Inside San Quentin, Inmates Go To College
By Richard Gonzales
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June 20, 2011 |
NPR
Opinion: The Supreme Court Got it Right on Prison Overcrowding in California
By Stephen Yair Liebb, Héctor Oropeza
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June 10, 2011 |
Fox News Latino
Prison University Gives Inmates Hope
By JoAnn Mar
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March 6, 2011 |
Voice of America
Philosophy in Prison
By Damon Horowitz
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March 5, 2011 |
TEDx2011
Stanford Students Lead Classes in San Quentin Prison
By Adam Gorlick
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February 17, 2011 |
Stanford News
Prison Break: Inmates at San Quentin Study for Success
By Bohemian.com
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August 18, 2010 |
Bohemian
Slideshow: San Quentin State Prison’s University
By Rina Palta
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July 28, 2010 |
KALW News
High Security, Higher Ed: San Quentin’s Prison University Project
By Crosscurrents Producer
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July 26, 2010 |
KALW News
Tiburon’s Jody Lewen Is Involved in A San Quentin University Project
By Ann Mizel
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July 14, 2010 |
The Ark
Freeing Minds
By Kathleen Richards
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June 1, 2009 |
KoreAm Journal
Behind the Scenes: Inside San Quentin’s Prison University Project
By Stan Wilson
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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
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October 17, 2008 |
The Monthly
Second Chance Programs Quietly Gain Acceptance
By Alan Greenblatt
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September 15, 2008 |
Congressional Quarterly Weekly
Prisoners’ Progress
By Joy Lazendorfer
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October 31, 2007 |
Bohemian
Chemistry Behind Bars: While Balancing Equations, Inmates at San Quentin Learn to Balance Their Lives
By Linda Wang
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October 22, 2007 |
Chemical & Engineering News
Inmates Graduate in San Quentin Ceremony
By Becca Maclaren
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June 28, 2007 |
Marin Independent Journal
A ‘Zealot’ for Higher Education Wins Award for Teaching at San Quentin
By Carla Bova
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April 22, 2007 |
Marin Independent Journal
A Visit to San Quentin Prison
By CNN Larry King Live
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June 7, 2006 |
CNN
Jody Lewen: San Quentin Is A Part Of Marin
By Marin Independent Journal
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March 19, 2006 |
mij
Geology 101 in Prison
By Megan Sever
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August 12, 2005 |
Geotimes
California Prisons Put New Focus on Rehabilitation
By Richard Gonzalez
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January 19, 2005 |
NPR Morning Edition
Focusing California’s Prison System on Correction
By Richard Gonzales
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January 18, 2005 |
NPR Morning Edition
Death Row Real Estate / Tug of War Over San Quentin’s Future Creates Unusual Alliances
By Jim Doyle
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November 12, 2004 |
SFGate
School of Hard Knocks / S.F. State Professor Loves Teaching at San Quentin
By Patricia Yollin
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March 29, 2004 |
SFGate
Learning Under Lockdown
By Gabrielle Banks
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March 15, 2003 |
ColorLines
Inmates Get Second Chance at Education
By Michelle Munn
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February 12, 2003 |
Los Angeles Times
Reading, Writing, Reforming / San Quentin Warden Jeanne Woodford Committed to Providing Education for Inmates
By Jim Doyle
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February 8, 2002 |
SFGate
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