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How I Convinced My Incarcerated Peers to Make Language a Priority

By Rahsaan Thomas | April 19, 2021 | The Marshall Project

Even in a Pandemic, San Quentin Must Restore Rehabilitation Programs

By Marcus Blevins | December 14, 2020 | San Francisco Chronicle

Inside San Quentin Prison, You Sit and Wait Until COVID-19 Comes for You

By Joe Garcia | July 23, 2020 | Washington Post

From the Archive

Inside the cell block at San Quentin State Prison

The View From Inside San Quentin State Prison

By Adamu Chan | July 6, 2020 | Slate

‘I Spent 11 Years In Prison—And Produced a Rap Album at San Quentin’

By David Jassy | June 25, 2020 | Newsweek

America is Isolated. I’ve Been There Before. Lessons I’ve Learned from San Quentin

By Kenyatta Leal | April 10, 2020 | USA Today

Former Student Jesse Vasquez’s Reentry Journey

By Mount Tamalpais College | January 16, 2020 | Great Big Story

Prison University Project Board Member Sia Henry on Impact Justice’s Trip to Norway and Finland

By Sia Henry | November 6, 2019 | Mount Tamalpais College

Using Education to Struggle for Justice: An Interview with Josh Page

By Josh Page | October 28, 2019 | Mount Tamalpais College

Footnote to What It is Like to Be an Older Inmate Doing Time in Prison

By Peter Bergne | October 28, 2019 | Mount Tamalpais College

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

By James King | October 20, 2019 | WitnessLA

I Host a Popular Podcast. I’m Also in Prison.

By Rahsaan Thomas | September 26, 2019 | The Marshall Project

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I Did 18 Years in Prison for Murder. Now I’m On a Mission to End Gun Violence.

By James Houston | June 28, 2019 | San Francisco Chronicle

The Judge and Jury Agreed I Didn’t Kill Anyone. So Why Did I Just Serve 16 Years For Murder?

By Adnan Khan | June 22, 2019 | New York Times

Spring Lake

By Carl Raybon | May 28, 2019 | Voice of Witness

My Crossroads Moment

By Troy Dunmore | March 12, 2019 | Voice of Witness

Dispatch From San Quentin—Young, Earnest and Criminalized

By James King | March 4, 2019 | WitnessLA

Dad Deserved Better

By Joe Garcia | February 6, 2019 | Voice of Witness

I Ran a Marathon in Prison

By Steve Brooks | January 15, 2019 | Voices of Witness

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

By Peter Brook | November 12, 2018 | Pulitzer Center

On Art and Voting—Thinking About Tuesday’s Elections from Inside San Quentin

By James King | November 7, 2018 | Witness LA

For Each Cage from Which I Break Free

By Arthur Jackson | November 1, 2018 | Mount Tamalpais College

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

One Prison Taught Me Racism. Another Taught Me Acceptance

By Jesse Vasquez | October 1, 2018 | The Washington Post

Redemption is Not Just for Me

By Emile DeWeaver | February 12, 2018 | San Francisco Chronicle

I Thought Being Gay Was a Sin Until I Saw My Friend Suffer in Prison

By James King | August 17, 2017 | The Marshall Project

TEDxSanQuentin: Life Revealed

By Mount Tamalpais College | May 26, 2017 |

The Dignity of Education in Prison

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

Allow Parole for Lifers—Reformed Violent Criminals—Under Proposition 57

By Emile DeWeaver | April 24, 2017 | The Mercury News

My Daughter, My Hero

By Mount Tamalpais College | March 3, 2017 | TEDxSanQuentin

When a Wedding Narrowed the ‘Emotional Distance’ of Prison

By James King | February 9, 2017 | The Marshall Project

What Does It Mean to Be a Real Man?

By Mesro El Coles | October 12, 2016 | Juvenile Justice Information Exchange

Creating a Healthy Society

By Sam Vaughn | April 29, 2016 | Mount Tamalpais College

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

Apple, Ex-cons, and Second Chances

By Aly Tamboura | April 17, 2015 | San Francisco Chronicle

Earning a Degree in Jail—Karl Marx, Aristotle and Strip Searches

By Timothy Nash | April 10, 2015 | HuffPost

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

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

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