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THE PULSE OF SAN QUENTIN Award Winner VOL. 2016 NO. 4 April 2016 SAN QUENTIN, 94964 www.sanquentinnews.com POPULATION 3,985 Teachers’ Forum Addresses School-to-Prison Pipeline

“Teaching is a political act,” on, where on March 4 about a sentence for a 1998 murder he said Berkeley High School dozen convicted criminals met committed during school hours teacher Hasmig Minassian. with Bay Area teachers, a lo- at age 16. “It’s the job for the teacher to cal TV news producer, and an Barriers to the educational international author to discuss process became a central focus create safety for students.” solutions for keeping children of the roundtable discussion. Minassian said teachers need in school. “What is going on in these to be willing to act decisively “We come from unstable public schools that’s adding to homes, and then we come into the problem instead of helping avoid focusing on policies and an unstable school system. So kids?” asked Bowen Paulle, the practices that don’t work. the kids don’t change,” said author of “Toxic Schools.” She was speaking at a round- moderator Miguel Quezada, table at San Quentin State Pris- 34, who is serving a life See Teachers’ on Page 4 Photo by Eddie Herena -San Quentin News Dr. Ted Mitchell, shaking hands with a coding student U.S. Undersecretary Of Education Visits San Quentin By Juan Haines tion, which was hosted by the Staff Writer coding program Code.7370. “I have 312 days left to make Another cadre of inmates a difference,” Dr. Mitchell learning computer program said, referring to the amount of skills hosted a coding demon- time President Barack Obama stration at San Quentin State Prison on March 15. too long, we’ve disregarded The undersecretary of the helping the incarcerated U.S. Department of Education, prosper.” Photo by Amanda Berger Dr. Ted Mitchell, was among Educators and participants of the Teacher’s Forum those attending the demonstra- See Undersecretary on Page 4 Enhancements Leave Thousands with Longer Sentences

By David Eugene Archer Sr. with extraordinarily long sen- Journalism Guild Writer tences,” said NBC reporter Stephen Stock. Tens of thousands of Critics and researchers say convicted criminals are in dozens of “extra” provisions state prison longer than the exist in California’s penal sentence for their crime due code, which can be added on to California sentencing as a sentencing enhancement. enhancements. This has led to overcrowding The Investigative Unit of of the state’s prisons and in- “NBC Bay Area News” aired equity in sentences depending on the discretion of the pros- about unfair and unjust state ecutor and judicial officer, re- prison sentences. ports Stock. Photo by Eddie Herena -San Quentin News “Enhancements leave thou- Actress Susan Sarandon and SQ Warden Ron Davis sands of California inmates See Sentencing on Page 5 Kid CAT Banquet Inspires Important Notice: San Quentin News asks for National Juvenile Reform supporters to hold all By Rahsaan Thomas “You are such an asset,” said from attending the banquet for Journalism Guild Chairman Sarandon. “If I go into a school, Kid CAT (Creating Awareness donations for San Quentin News until further they are not going to listen to Together). Wearing a leg brace, notice. PLEASE DO NOT send any donations Actress Susan Sarandon me; but they’ll listen to you, and she made her way around the to either Prison Media Project or Media limped into San Quentin State you can make a difference.” tables in the Protestant Chapel, Alliance in support of San Quentin News. Prison to learn from incarcer- Sarandon fell down a interacting with the incarcerated ated Kid CAT members how she mountain, fracturing her ankle. men she met. Thank you for your patience and support. can help them stop the school- However, the proud New to-prison pipeline. Yorker didn’t let that stop her See Kid CAT on Page 10 Page 2 SAN QUENTIN NEWS www.sanquentinnews.com April 2016   Collette Carroll Undersecretary Visit 1 Trade Program 11 Teachers’ Forum 1 Arts & Entertainment 12 Enhancements 1 News Briefs 13 Kid CAT Banquet 1 Wordcross Puzzle 13 Dedicated to Collette Carroll 2 Gobierno Sector 14 PPI Research 3 Estadisticas 14 Court Uphold Prop. 89 3 Brown’s Proposal 14 CDCR New Blueprint 3 Changing Lives NBC Sparks Debate 15 CDCR Inmate Appeals 3 Death Penalty Initiatives 15 By Miguel Quezada Critics Question Prisons 4 Prison Stats Misleading 15 Staff Writer Distance Determine Visits 5 Asked On The Line 16 Prop. 47 Results 5 Yard Talk 16 Collette Carroll is the kind of Editorial 6 Scripture Graduation 16 San Quentin volunteer who sees SQ News Adviser 6 MAC Corner 16 & Kid CAT Speaks 7 Book Review 17 need was to prepare prisoners for their release into the outside Felon’s Second Chance 8 Watch This 17 world. SQ Annual Black History 8 Screening Visitors 17 After eight years volunteering Youth Offender Program 8 Sports 18 in the prison, she founded Court Blocks FCC 8 Sports 19 the organization that became Blues Quartet 9 Eddy Zheng 20 known as the California Reentry Institute (CRI). It led to her David Johnson 9 CGA Graduation 20 being recognized and honored as a leader in reentry services for the incarcerated in California. However, pre-release was not enough for Carroll. “It’s not UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY good enough to just prepare Graduate School of Journalism someone for freedom; they need assistance and resources to put into practice what they have learned,” she stated. In 2013, Carroll opened the so- Prisoners United in the Craft of Journalism cial enterprise 2nd Chance Bou- in collaboration with students from the tique, with the intent to make '#*#+/<'# opened its own re-entry home, Roland’s House, named after her late husband. She describes the home as a safe place where the men in her program can receive Courtesy of Collette Carroll the specialized services to en- Roland Peck and Collette Carroll at SQ in 1994 sure their successful future. CRI was created when she re- San Quentin in 1994 with her dinary contributions to human- alized the work she was doing late husband, Roland Peck, a itarian aid and improve their San Quentin News strives to report on forward- was just scratching the surface. volunteer of 25 years, to attend communities. thinking approaches in criminal justice policies The program developed into a banquets in the chapel. In that same year, the comprehensive 18-to- 24 month “It was through my husband California Assembly awarded that support positive changes in prisoner behavior, curriculum. and the chapel that I was able Carroll with an Assembly particularly through rehabilitative efforts. The men learn extensive in- to meet and admire the men in Resolution. In March 2016, she sight into the causative factors was honored as the Assembly’s We Want To Hear of their crime and the impact !- 2016 Women of the Year. San on victims and focus heavily on unteer was to sing Christmas Carroll commented that From You! emotional development. They carols in the cellblocks to the “awards, or any honors, are The San Quentin News Quentin are immersed in an orientation incarcerated men. It was a tradi- "#R% encourages inmates, free staff, to the latest technology, profes- tion she continued with her hus- I am — it’s not about me — it custody staff, volunteers and News others outside the institution to sional career-building and basic band until his passing. never has been about me but I submit articles. 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By Kevin D. Sawyer mous churn in and out of our eral correctional control. offense,” PPI reported. and more than 2,000 children Associate Editor correctional facilities.” “Once we have wrapped our Most convictions result from confined for “status” offenses. With some 636,000 people minds around the ‘whole pie’ of defendants accepting plea bar- “Looking at the big picture Many sources say America released from prisons each mass incarceration, we should gains, PPI reported. It said requires us to ask if it really locks up some 2.3 million peo- year and over 11 million peo- zoom out and note that being some people plead guilty to of- makes sense to lock up 2.3 ple in its jails and prisons on ple cycling in and out of lo- locked up is just one piece of fenses they may not have com- million people on any given any given day, but that’s not cal jails, according to PPI re- the larger pie of correctional mitted. day, giving this nation the du- the whole story. search, seemingly, not much control,” PPI reported. PPI reported almost 10,000 bious distinction of having the According to Prison Policy has changed. According to PPI’s research children incarcerated for highest incarceration rate in Initiative (PPI) research, “The “We don’t talk about local covering all forms of correc- “technical violations” stem- the world,” PPI said. Whole Pie 2015,” there are jails nearly as much as we do tional control, 55 percent are ming from parole or probation PPI’s report can be accessed at more than 2.3 million people talk about prisons at the na- on probation (3.9 million), 12 violations, not new offenses; www.prisonpolicy.org. confined in various institu- tional level,” said PPI Policy percent are on parole (850,000) tions throughout the country, & Communications Associate and another 33 percent are including 2,259 juvenile facili- Bernadette Rabuy in an inter- locked up. ties, 1,719 state prisons, 102 view with therealnews.com. “We find that 19,000 people Court of Appeals federal prisons, 3,283 local It was reported that jail pop- are in federal prison for crimi- jails, and 79 Indian Country ulations are high due to the nal convictions of violating jails, as well as military pris- number of pretrial detainees federal immigration laws,” PPI Upholds Prop. 89 ons. who have not been convicted reported. “A separate 33,000 “This report offers some of a crime but are too poor to are civilly detained by U.S. much needed clarity by piec- afford bail, or will make bail in Immigration and Customs En- By Noel Scott inference, rather than con- ing together this country’s a matter of hours or days. forcement.” Journalism Guild Writer crete evidence demonstrating disparate systems of confine- “We found that actually 70 In its research, PPI also that the PTA (Petition to Ad- ment,” PPI reported. “And we percent of the people in our found convictions for nonvio- Two ballot propositions that vance) process failed to afford go deeper to provide further local jails are unconvicted, lent drug offenses exist as a make it harder for prisoners relief from the class-wide risk detail on why people in the meaning they’re legally inno- cornerstone in federal prisons. convicted of murder to get of lengthened incarceration various systems of confine- cent,” Rabuy told therealnews. In state prisons and local jails, parole have been upheld on posed by Proposition 9.” ment are locked up.” com. these offenses “play only a appeal. Judge Karlton’s ruling, Two years ago PPI released According to Rabuy, there is supporting role.” & which brought hope to many a study detailing the number also an unseen number beyond “We know that almost half a findings by the late U.S. Dis- lifers in California, held that of people confined in vari- the 2.3 million currently incar- million adults and children are trict Court Judge Lawrence the PTA process wasn’t be- ous U.S. institutions. Then the cerated. It is the figure count- locked up because their most Karlton. He ruled the proposi- ing implemented fairly for in- numbers revealed an “enor- ing those under state and fed- significant offense was a drug tions unfairly created stricter mates sentenced prior to Prop- parole standards for inmates osition 9’s passage, but the 9th previously sentenced. Circuit disagreed, the Daily The 9th Circuit Court of Journal"[ CDCR Releases New Blueprint Appeals upheld Proposition “There is no doubt that 9, a voter-approved proposi- the two propositions have tion from 2008 also known extended the time convicted With Budget Proposal as “Marsy’s Law,” and 1988’s murderers spend in prison,” Proposition 89. said Heidi Rummel, a Proposition 89 granted the professor at the University of By Chung Kao held for lifers, youth offend- are being evaluated to iden- governor power to overrule Southern California’s Gould Staff Writer ers, elderly or permanently tify the cost-effective and suc- convicted murderers’ parole School of Law, told the Daily incapacitated inmates, and cessful ones for prioritization. board decisions. Proposition 9 Journal. \' non-violent second-strikers. # = - lengthened the maximum time There’s “a huge irony ""]- # The Division of Juve- leges were awarded $2 mil- between inmates’ parole re- going on here,” said Laurie fornia’s overcrowded prison sys- nile Justice, with only about lion to offer pilot live instruc- view hearings up to 15 years, L. Levenson, a criminal law tem. 700 wards now, has reduced tion starting January 2016. among other new rules. specialist and professor at F " its jurisdictional age from # Arts in Corrections programs In 2005, a group of Cali- Loyola Law School. “You have been made, “but much 25 to 23 and has implement- were awarded $2 million in 2015- fornia prisoners sentenced to have the governor proposing work remains to be done,” con- ed court-ordered reforms. 16 and are available at 18 prisons. life with the possibility of pa- changes in sentencing and cludes the 55-page report titled # CDCR trained 2,542 cor- # CDCR awarded $5.5 mil- role sued the state in a class- parole…and then we have ^_"- +/| lion in Innovative Program- action suit, Gilman v. Brown. propositions that will certainly ifornia Corrections.” improving training for wardens, ming Grants to increase They added claims concerning work in the other direction.” “Access to meaningful pro- superintendents, and executives. the volunteer programs Marsy’s Law later. San Diego County District grams and services (is) impor- # On Dec. 9, 2015, CDCR’s at under served prisons. The appeals court ruled “the Attorney Bonnie Dumanis tant to an offender’s success and adult population was 112,510 # CDCR received $2.2 District Court committed le- wrote in a prepared statement, (leads) to improved recidivism in state prisons (136 percent million to expand the Cal- gal error by basing its findings “Today is a solid win for rates and safer prisons and com- of design capacity) and 14,958 ID program to all prisons. principally on speculation and victims’ rights in California.” munities,” according to the up- " # The current budget includes date. # The fall 2015 population $32.1 million to continue the The new plan was released report projected the adult pop- community reentry program. CDCR Has Duty to in January with the governor’s ulation to decrease through # The current budget in- 2016-17 budget proposal. June 2016 but increase gradu- cludes $25 million for in- This report by the California ally to 131,092 in June 2020. centive payments to local Process Inmate Appeals Department of Corrections and # CDCR’s estimated government to approve hard- Rehabilitation (CDCR) updates 2016-17 budget is $10.3 bil- to-site re-entry facilities. San Quentin News for a writ of mandate in the a 2012 CDCR report known as lion, 8.4 percent of the to- # The 2015-16 budget includ- Superior Court after the appeals the Blueprint. } " ed $3.3 million and the current A prisoner may petition the coordinator at the R. J. Donovan The Blueprint was premised # CDCR is considering revi- budget $6 million to expand court for a writ of mandate to = on the model of maintaining the sions to the custody designa- the Alternative Custody Pro- compel the prison system to to process his disciplinary prison population at 145 percent tions of inmates and chang- gram to male inmates, avail- process his or her administrative inmate appeal and the warden of design capacity; however, es to address the growing able one year before release. appeal, a state appellate court refused to rectify the failure. federal courts capped it at 137.5 Sensitive Needs Yard population. # The 2014 Budget Act has ruled. The Superior Court decided the percent. # CDCR has moved from inde- granted $865,000 for plan- The California Department of "%= # CDCR has complied terminate to behavior-based de- ning the California Leadership Corrections and Rehabilitation dismissed it. with the population cap. terminate terms of segregation Academy to provide alterna- (CDCR) “is obliged to process Kao appealed the dismissal #In-state contract beds in- pursuant to a court settlement. tive housing and programming disciplinary appeals by the reg- to the Court of Appeal in San creased to 5,821 and out- # Through June 2020, CDCR to inmates age 18 to 25. ulations in the California Code Diego. The principal issue in of-state beds will be cut plans to maintain 4,900 out- # The current budget in- of Regulations, Title 15, section the appeal was the time period to 4,900 by June 2016. of-state and 4,100 in-state cludes $10 million for long- 3084 et seq.,” said the court in in which Kao was required to # Sixty percent of the to- [|++ term offender programs. " " tal population is served by camps, 2,300 in the Califor- # The current budget in- " CDCR claimed the time pe- rehabilitative programs. = = cludes $7.9 million to continue duty can be a basis for a writ riod was 60 days. After pass- # CDCR has regained con- 1,000 in the community reen- and enhance the drug- and of mandate. CDCR’s regula- ing on the threshold question try beds, and 300 in state hos- contraband- interdicting pi- tions have the “dignity” of laws of the legal obligation involved, State Prison and two areas pitals for the adult population. lot programs at 11 prisons. because they are “quasi-leg- the appeals court ruled that the of headquarter operations. # The California Reha- # Video monitoring is pro- islative rules the department time period was three years. # Improved gang man- bilitation Center will not be jected at all new facilities. promulgated as part of law- The Court of Appeal reversed agement converted thou- closed, although the budget # Cellphone jammers are making power delegated by the the Superior Court’s judgment sands of segregation beds includes $6 million for re- considered outdated, and new Legislature,” the appeals court dismissing the petition because to general population use. pairs and maintenance of it. technologies are being evalu- reasoned. > " % # Parole hearings are now # Inmate and parolee programs ated to detect cellphones. > " three years. 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By Forrest Lee Jones complex,” or PIC. Ertel uses the and the exercising of private %"#++ industry is growing: Corrections Journalism Guild Writer term to denote “the overlapping " % for example, only 0.3 percent "^R" interests of government and prison system itself.” of inmates nationwide were alone have increased by 500 America needs to rethink the industry that use surveillance, The article stated that “the employed by such companies. percent in the past 20 years, purpose of prisons and how they policing and imprisonment as notion of the PIC has been Even if this trend were to and the three largest private operate, some criminal justice solutions to economic, social central in galvanizing public develop exponentially in the prison corporations have spent reformers recommend. and political problems.” interest in the country’s coming years, it would still fail over $45 million combined in The country needs to change The article refers to Critical astounding incarceration boom to account for the fundamental lobbying efforts. its ideas of what offenses Resistance, a national self-de- -- and the 2.2 million people features of the prison system, as Private prison companies are deserve incarceration and for scribed abolitionist organization enveloped by it, over 60 percent no single sector relies principally responsible for 62 percent of the how long. It also needs to make comprised of a range of scholars of whom are people of color -- = " beds used by the Department of prisons contribute to the general and activists including Angela since the 1980s.” labor, says Wacquant. Homeland Security Immigra- economy, reform security issues Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore ‚ Prisons do not constitute a tions and Customs Enforcement and increase educational and and Dylan Rodriguez. Wacquant “is among the most _ branch, the story says. vocational programs to give Critical Resistance says the brazen of the term’s critics,” States economy, Wacquant @- inmates job skills, according to PIC “helps and maintains the particularly prison labor on the states. He adds that inmates are rections Corporation of America an article on counterpunch.org. authority of people who get their economy, the story says. generally employed at a loss to and GEO Group operate nine The writer, Jacob Ertel, power through racial, economic Wacquant explains that only the government. out of 10 of the country’s largest says more and more critics are and other privileges by way a miniscule percentage of The story says it is a negative immigration detention centers, rethinking the “prison-industrial of mass media, electioneering incarcerated people actually factor that the private prison the story reports. Undersecretary Tours Rehabilitative Programs Continued from Page 1 bilitative Programs; student aid, otherwise known CALPIA General as Pell grants, to prisoners in Dr. Mitchell said California Manager Charles 1994. Pell grants were created prisons set an example for the Pattillo; and Rusty in 1972 and cover up to $5,775 rest of the country in rehabili- Bechtold, an ad- per year in education expenses, tative programs and vocational ministrator with including books and classes. training. CALPIA Work- Dr. Mitchell said more than A 2013 Rand Corporation force Development 250 colleges applied for Pell study found that inmates who Branch, were on grants, adding that reentry pro- take part in educational pro- hand to answer Dr. grams are also being funded. grams while incarcerated have Mitchell’s ques- “We have never proposed a 43 percent lower recidivism tions. anything that’s gotten more rate than inmates who do not. Dr. Mitchell, in positive feedback,” Dr. Mitch- Employment rates after release turn, answered in- ell said, referring to Pell grants. were 13 percent higher for in- mates’ questions “Education is the American mates who participated in aca- Photo by Eddie Herena -San Quentin News about educational society’s surest way for social demic or vocational education Dr. Ted Mitchell, Chris Redlitz, Brant Choate, opportunities in mobility. So that people don’t programs and 28 percent higher prison. Inmates fall through gaps, we need to for those who participated in Kelly Mitchell and Charles Pattillo were curious about strengthen the public educa- vocational training. March 15 demonstration, told kids; a nationwide data visual- the availability of federal fund- tional system.” Code.7370 was developed at the students, “There’s a strong ization map designed to help ing to prisoners who already Dr. Mitchell said his grand- San Quentin in 2014 by venture interest in Washington with parents understand the value have two-year degrees and are %- capitalists Chris Redlitz and what we’re doing in coding.” of immunizing their children; seeking additional educational cer at San Quentin and he had Beverly Parenti in collaboration “Your commitment to this a game-style program to teach opportunities. spent his own early years riding with the California Prison program will pay off for you coding skills to youth at sites Earlier this year, the White F Industry Authority (CALPIA), and others in custody,” Dr. outside of prison; and an inter- House began using a provision truck and playing baseball on the California Department of Mitchell added. “I can’t think of active program that empowers in the Higher Education Act to the Little League team. Corrections and Rehabilitation a more admirable program than recovering addicts through sup- temporarily allow educational “Coming back is like a home- (CDCR) and Hack Reactor, this one.” port networks. funding for students incarcer- coming,” Dr. Mitchell told the a coding academy in San Among the projects inmates Dr. Mitchell asked many ated in state or federal prisons. students at the coding demon- &" developed and demonstrated questions about San Quentin’s The federal aid will allow the stration. “When I go back to computer coding skills to were: an interactive program rehabilitative services. Deputy federal government to study the Washington, I can tell your sto- inmates, many of whom have that rates and tracks students’ Warden Kelly Mitchell; Brant effectiveness of education in re- ries.” never been on the Internet. educational progress and gives Choate, acting director of the ducing recidivism. “I look forward to following Redlitz, who also attended the advice to parents of K-12 school department’s Division of Reha- Congress banned federal your careers,” he added. Teachers’ Forum Tackles School-to-Prison Pipeline Continued from Page 1 combat. However, Stock said drawn into a gang as a result of struggled with a lack of Tommy Winfrey added that when looking at the people in a neglectful home life and peer emotional intelligence. the concept of empathy helped Paulle wrote the book Oakland, they cannot get away pressure at school, of being Emotional Intelligence: him understand emotional in- after teaching high school from the place where they de- an immigrant, of processing Bay Area teacher Kelli Riggs telligence. in impoverished areas of veloped PTSD. Many PTSD your parents’ divorce and then at Bret Harte Elementary asked “Once you can understand Amsterdam and New York and sufferers wind up in prison, having an adverse relationship " what is happening to other witnessing the same emotional where the problem is com- with a stepfather. intelligence. people, you can deal with toxic environment that pounded. These troubled pasts can be “It is breaking away from my them,” Winfrey said. “If you produced negative behaviors The solution: social workers }- institutionalization and how can understand yourself, you from students in both schools. advocates for more resources ing Rage Into Power (GRIP), a =% can understand other people.” He discovered that many to treat trauma at an early age, self-help program in the prison, I looked at masculinity,” Philip What Works: high school students engaged ~€# teaches a transformation pro- Melendez explained. David Inocencio, publisher in negative behaviors wanted Inmates said the solution to cess. Melendez commented that of The Beat Within magazine, to change their lives, but they keep students in the classroom “GRIP graduates have learned once he broke away from sends writings of encourage- didn’t or couldn’t in toxic will come from going beyond about emotional intelligence his pre-conceived ideas and ment from San Quentin inmates schools that made them worse. the traditional educational and that ‘Hurt people hurt realized his “authentic self,” he to juvenile hall offenders across Paulle’s solution: desegregat- system. people and healed people heal focused on himself. the nation. ing schools, “no matter what it The teachers’ boots-on-the people,’” creator of the program “A lot of emotional intel- “I am just the messenger,” he takes.” He added, “We need to ground solution calls for smaller Jacques Verduin said. “We ligence is slowing down your said. “You guys are touching the regulate the everyday experi- classes and greater community should be sending people who thought process,” Melendez lives of a lot of young people.” ence of these kids, even if it be- input. have made the change inside to said. Prisoner Jarred Elkins, 21, comes draconian.” The Prisoners’ Stories: help on the outside. If you don’t According to Adnan Khan, said a little bit of encouragement By examining gun violence, The prisoners told a wide do it for ideological reasons, do another component of emotion- goes a long way. He said even “NBC Bay Area We Investigate” range of stories: one had it for money. It costs $64,000 al intelligence is understanding though he had many problems reporter Stephen Stock brought endured childhood abuse and annually to incarcerate each of that anger is a secondary emo- at home, encouragement by a light to the toxic environment the shame it carries. Another these men.” tion. third-grade teacher had him across the bay in Oakland. was born in a refugee camp. Every prisoner who spoke #R%doing his homework. He called Stock found citizens of all Another remembered violence had undergone rehabilitative that anger comes from,” he for teachers to “dig deep into ages suffering from Post Trau- between his parents from when services, similar to GRIP. Each said. “I’m able to identify the why kids have these behavioral matic Stress Disorder (PTSD), he was a toddler. Others spoke told of the lasting repercussions problem and deal with anger problems.” like veterans returning from of racism in school, of being of their past trauma, and properly.” –Juan Haines April 2016 SAN QUENTIN NEWS www.sanquentinnews.com Page 5 Distance Determines if Prisoners Receive Visits By Kevin D. Sawyer why others do not receive vis- visit,” said Bernadette Rabuy, from visiting, it was reported. most liberally permitted, and Associate Editor its at all, according to Prison the Oct. 2015 study author. “I “We found that among incar- indeed some have policies that Policy Initiative (PPI) research. hope this report gives policy cerated people locked up less severely limit visitation.” Research indicates prisoners The study exposes how less than makers more reasons to change than 50 miles from home, half The Yale study said 32 juris- who are visited by family and one-third of state prisoners are the course of correctional receive a visit in a month, but dictions place limitations on friends are less likely to return visited by loved ones during an history.” the portion receiving visits falls the number of approved visitors to incarceration. average month. When someone is imprisoned as the distance from home in- a prisoner may have. Distance plays a major role in “Distance from home is a far from home it impacts their creases,” the study says. “In contrast, California why many prisoners’ visits are strong predictor for whether an visitors in many ways, one of Prison Policy Initiative said =" infrequent and in many cases incarcerated person receives a which is by discouraging them it found “the breakdown of on the number of approved how far people in state prisons visitors,” the Yale study says. reported being locked up (is Citing prison regulations, the Prop. 47 Results in Lower determined by their distance) study said, “‘Limitations shall from their home communities.” not be placed on the number of visitors approved to visit an Distance % visited last month inmate.’” Recidivism for State Less than 50 miles 49.6% The initiative’s study also By Tommy Bryant every year,” reports CDCR. 2016, although the exact method 50-100 miles 40.0% said distance is not the only Journalism Guild Writer “Approximately 8 percent for calculating savings has not 101-500 miles 25.9% factor that affects prisoners’ of prisoners released under yet been determined,” reports 501-1,000 miles 14.5% families or friends’ decision the Department of Corrections. The effects of Prop. 47, now at Prop. 47 have been women,” Based on a survey covering to pay them a visit. It said Prop. 47 increased early re- the one-year anniversary point, according to the Stanford 14,500 state prisoners done by harassment by prison staff is a leases in the beginning but has are still being analyzed. Statis- justice Advocacy Project. the Bureau of Justice Statistics, deciding issue too. tapered off. “Early releases from tics are slowly trickling in about There are 5,268 women housed the initiative calculated the pro- “States such as California county jails due to overcrowd- the effects Prop. 47 is having on in facilities made for 3,800, portion of inmates housed at and Massachusetts should stop ing are down approximately 35 jail and prison systems. making them among the most various distances from family their unnecessary and dehu- percent statewide,” according Remarkably, Prop. 47 re- overcrowded state prisons at and friends: manizing strip and dog search- cidivism has been very low. “A 138 percent. Women prisoners to the California Board of State es of visitors,” the initiative’s prison return rate below 5 per- make up 4 percent of the state’s Community Corrections. Distance Proportion study said. cent indicates that any increase total. The AB 109 Public Safety Less than 50 miles 15.7% The Yale study says all states in crime over the past year A district attorney argued Realignment Act was signed 50-100 miles 20.9% provide prison visitation, and should not be attributed to in- that Prop. 47 did not apply to by Gov. to reduce 101-500 miles 53.2% each state screens visitors and mates freed from prison under plea bargains, and the Contra prison overcrowding. Inmates 501-1,000 miles 7.9% places limitations on visiting Proposition 47,” stated the Stan- Costa County Superior Court began serving more time in Over 1,000 miles 2.2% times and determines who is ford Justice Advocacy Project agreed with the decision. “In county jails, which in turn over- allowed to visit. using data from the California ^"\ crowded the jailing systems. According to a Yale Law “All states provide a Department of Corrections and Appeals reversed the Superior “Over 20 county jail systems School report, “Prison Visi- substantial level of discretion Rehabilitation as of October, Court decision.” All inmates el- are under court orders limiting @‡^=F to each prison’s warden or 2015. igible under Prop. 47 have three the number of inmates who may Study,” “Thirty jurisdictions superintendent in implementing Prop. 47 works hand in hand years to submit petitions. be housed at any given facility,” (including California) promote the policy directives,” the Yale with the three-judge panel rul- With fewer long-term prison states the California Board of or encourage visitation at the study said. ing that the prison populations inmates, the estimate for po- State Community Corrections. outset of their policy directives The Yale study commented, be no more than 137.5 percent of tential state savings is around As of Sept. 30, 2015, “The or regulations.” “Many inmates are incarcer- "==+/#"" $93.4 million a year. “The De- prison population remains over However, the Yale study noted ated far away from friends and “the state will incarcerate an es- "- 30 percent above capacity” these states “are not necessarily family; sheer distance serves as timated 3,300 fewer prisoners plete its calculations by June 30, reports CDCR. the ones in which visitation is a major barrier to visitation.” Sentencing Enhancements Causes High Costs and Overcrowding

Continued from Page 1 enough is enough on sentence the “Three Strikes” law alone. It murder when he shot another to see comprehensive reform enhancements,” said Hancock, is just one of dozens of possible man in the leg. But a prosecutor of the entire system, starting In 2010, California’s prison who chairs the Senate Public enhancements prosecutors can added four separate enhance- with the creation of a sentenc- system had become so over- Safety Committee in Sacra- add onto criminal charges, ac- ments onto Lewis’ charges, ing commission that would use crowded the United States Su- mento. “Our (state) population cording to reporter Stock. all tied to the same gun and data to determine what works preme Court ruled that being has about doubled (since 1980), the same crime. While Lewis and what doesn’t. incarcerated in one of the state’s but our prison population has got 15 years in prison for an “There are very few people 33 prisons amounted to cruel grown by over 400 percent.” attempted murder conviction, in the legislature who are ready and unusual punishment. “NBC Bay Area’s Investiga- “We need to change he got another 94 years for the and willing to take this on,” Mike Vitiello, a professor tive Unit” visited San Quentin sentencing enhancements, re- Vitiello said. “Their answer, to of law at the University of the for a conversation with inmates the culture in ported Stock. some degree, is let the public @R ˆ} F currently serving decades-long prisons from ... “The time is way more than do it through the initiative Law, said, “Everybody [loses] or life sentences because of sen- you would even get for the process.” when we have these overcrowd- tence enhancements. punishment to crime itself,” said Lewis, who Hancock agrees with Vitiello ed prisons.” It makes the entire Antoine Watie told Stock, is now serving 109-years-to- that California desperately system more dangerous and “In 1999 I committed the act of a culture that life. “In my case, I was given needs prison reform. She’s been makes rehabilitation of inmates killing my stepfather after he acknowledges a couple of 25-to-life sentences trying to push for that reform ]= F % abused my mother and my little for the same gun,” Lewis said. for years in Sacramento, but suffer with this over-elaborate brother,” the ability of “So I got 25-years-to-life for she often runs into roadblocks. criminal justice system that just Watie said he stood outside people to change this, 25-to-life for that.” She says she spends a lot piles on these excessive, ob- when he was refused entrance Lewis has been incarcerated of time pushing back against scenely excessive sentences.” into his stepfather’s house and and encourages since the age of 27, and without new sentence enhancements Reform advocates argue argued with him. At some point the enhancements, would have proposed by her colleagues. these enhancements are unjust Watie thought he saw his stepfa- that change” already served his 15-year She said the state spends far too because they punish inmates ther reach for a gun, so he shot prison sentence. But unless much money on punishment multiple times for the same him through the screen door in there’s a change in the law, and incarceration and not crime. Sentence enhancements self-defense. Some commonly used sen- Lewis will likely die in prison. enough on rehabilitation, drug contribute to the high cost and A jury convicted him of man- tence enhancements include Vitiello says sentence en- and mental health counseling.” overcrowding of California’s slaughter. Seventeen years later, prior convictions, the use of a hancements are largely a prod- Hancock argues, “We really prison system, Stock reported. Watie still sits in San Quentin. =- uct of the tough on crime era of need to change the culture in These enhancements, such as He said, “I was sentenced to jury, shooting into an occupied the 1980s and 1990s. Each time prisons from ... punishment to the “Three Strikes” law or the 32-years-to-life. Seven years for building, shooting from a car or *" a culture that acknowledges the “10-20-life” gun enhancement the actual act of killing my step- being in a gang, says Stock. lawmakers would propose ability of people to change and law, carry severe mandatory father and 25-to-life for the gun The “10-20-life” gun en- a new enhancement for that encourages that change,” she minimum sentences. Prosecu- enhancement.” hancement adds 10 years for crime. Vitiello says sentences says. tors often hold them over the Because the bullet passed brandishing a gun, 20 years for violent crimes increased The senator recently helped heads of defendants to entice through the screen door, the - dramatically. pass prison reform legislation guilty pleas, said Stock. prosecutor at the trial added tence for shooting someone in According to a study by and said, “I think we’re seeing Advocates of sentencing an enhancement for “shooting the commission of a crime. An the Pew Charitable Trust, a recognition (by many law- reform like professor Vitiello into an occupied dwelling,” %%- sentences for violent crimes makers) that things have got to and State Senator Loni Hancock meaning his conviction carried ing shot, for instance, could face between 1990 and 2009 grew change.” (D-Berkeley) say the data shows a mandatory minimum 25-to- an additional 20 years on top by 63 percent. But, she says those legisla- that sentence enhancements are life sentence. The judge had no of the robbery charge, reports California spends an enor- tive battles are often against not effective in reducing violent discretion to alter the sentence. Stock. mous amount of money on in- heavy opposition from lobby- crime. There are 40,000 inmates Demond Lewis, 42, received carcerating aging felons, said ists representing sheriffs, DA’s “We really need to say currently serving time under a 15-year sentence for attempted Vitiello. The professor wants and police chiefs. Page 6 SAN QUENTIN NEWSwww.sanquentinnews.com April 2016 Reforming Our Way of Thinking

R. Malik Harris ing one solution. The Califor- are the people who are keep- Editor-in-Chief nia District Attorneys Asso- ing the prisons overpopulated. ciation opposes the initiative. These are the people who will Governor Jerry Brown is Editorial They argue that there are peo- get out of prison early if there backing an initiative titled ple in prison who absolutely is going to be sentence reform, “The Public Safety and Reha- the ballot and if it is voted into that in his time on the bench should not get out any earlier or if the federal court acts. bilitation Act of 2016.”. The law in November. What seems due to overcrowding. While we talk about prison initiative changes the way ju- certain is that people who were witnessed people from all The problem Californians and sentence reform, it would veniles are charged in adult not talking about reforming sides of the aisle discussing are facing is that since As- be good for us to recognize that court and will, potentially, sentencing policy a few years prison reform. A lot of people sembly Bill 109, also known as before we can reform anything, have a drastic effect on adult ago are now talking about it. are realizing that the criminal “Realignment,” the “low hang- %%= sentencing. The Honorable Thelton justice system is broken and ing fruit” is gone. Left in prison we think. Nothing good will There is a debate about the Henderson told a room full "%%=] are people with violent, serious happen if we talk about reform impact this initiative will ac- of incarcerated men at San it. or sex charges, “3-Strikers” but continue to think “tough on tually have if it makes it into Quentin in November of 2015 Governor Brown is support- and so-called “Lifers.” These crime.” San Quentin News Adviser Retires After Eight Years By Aly Tamboura important questions but Eagan asked The decades of Eagan’s ca- Contributing Writer you should ask me?” one of his report- reer took him to multiple news said Eagan, taking a ers, “What if it’s agencies. On top of holding po- The San Quentin News, break from editing true?” and sub- sitions in many news outlets, created in 1940 by Warden articles with journal- mitted the story Eagan held executive positions Clinton T. Duffy, is at the end ism students. for national cov- for the AP F of an era, which began eight I asked how he erage. The article Sacramento, Los Angeles and years ago under the guidance became a journalist. was published Chicago. The last position Ea- of one remarkable volunteer, Eagan set his cof- worldwide. gan held in the news business who has decided to step down. fee cup on the table, The Heimlich was publisher of the Marin- Veteran journalist John leaned back in his Maneuver, as it scope Community Newspa- C. Eagan, who has been chair and smiled like is called now, has " % " volunteering his time mentoring a man who enjoys been adopted by weekly newspapers. prisoners, including myself, story-telling. And emergency re- Eagan also founded the San in the craft of journalism, is Eagan’s life and long " Rafael Computer Training leaving his position as senior tenure as a journalist over the world and Center, which he headed for 12 adviser to the San Quentin is nothing less than a is credited with years in the 1980s and ‘90s. News. narrative suited for a saving countless What are his thoughts about The legacy he leaves behind novel. lives, including his time here at San Quentin? is a strong, professional, re- Eagan was born Ronald Reagan His pending departure brought spected newspaper built from in 1935 in Crystal and Eagan’s own a cloud of melancholy drifting scratch. It is one of the most re- ' granddaughter. over his usually cheerful face. markable revivals in the annals home his carpenter After graduat- “It is time for me to step of Bay Area journalism. father built. At age ing from the Uni- down from the San Quentin Eagan was asked in 2008 by one, along with six = News,” said Eagan, with a hint then-Warden Robert Ayers Jr. of his seven siblings, with a degree in of sorrow in his voice. “It’s time to breathe new life into the San he was sent to the File photo journalism, Eagan to go to work on three books I Quentin News, which had been "- went to work at have put on the back burner for on hiatus for years. dren’s Home after John C. Eagan ‚- eight years.” Eagan told Ayers he agreed his mother died due to compli- When it’s editorial crunch ~% According to Eagan, “The to take the position “as long as cations with an ear infection. time at the San Quentin News, married and moved to Cali- San Quentin News has become the newspaper was not going to The children’s home imbued Eagan offers the slogan, “Let’s fornia and was employed at an outstanding, high-quality, be a mouthpiece for the admin- the child with a foundation of get out a paper and we’ll make the Arcadia Tribune, where he award-winning publication that istration.” strong Christian values. Af- the next one better than the worked as a reporter and pho- does a remarkable job of re- As an unpaid volunteer ad- ter 17 years in the Children’s last,” a mantra which is deeply tographer. porting what is good and what viser, Eagan oversaw publica- Home. Eagan graduated from rooted in his college journalism After a year working at is bad about the criminal jus- tion of San Quentin News’ high school and joined the experience. Arcadia, E a g a n m o v e d t o N a p a . tice system – and what needs to edition in almost 20 years in Army in 1954. After a stint While working for the Napa be improved or changed.” June 2008. He was also instru- overseas, he returned to the Register, Eagan was tasked Under his tutelage, the news- mental in creating the paper’s States and enrolled in Uni- “It’s been one of with going to the family ranch paper to which he devoted so Journalism Guild, a training =% of Supreme Court Chief Jus- much time and energy has project, where he has spent his %= the most rewarding tice Earl Warren on Christmas given a voice to a part of the == wanted to do. Eve to take a family picture. A American population which instructing prisoners in how to ‹Œ- things I’ve done @“ has dwelled in the shadows. be journalists. neering. All went well, accord- in my life” Kennedy was assassinated in “It’s been one of the most re- !=‹ ing to Eagan, until he enrolled Texas and Chief Justice War- warding things I’ve done in my despite his ailing knees, saun- in a calculus class. The class ren was appointed by Lyndon ‹ % % Eagan’s mentorship is the “ “>R One of the books Eagan is seasoned newsman. He sports major to architecture, a profes- driving force behind elevating head a commission to investi- writing is titled “What If It’s his black blazer and tie, topped sion that inspired him during the San Quentin News from a gate. True?” a witty phrase drawn off with his signature broad- his Army time in Europe. It four-page tabloid, distributed Chief Justice Warren, who from the accumulated wisdom brim canvas hat, creased at the also helped that his new ma- inside prison walls in 2008, to had an aversion to interviews, of a lifelong journalist. crown. He takes his seat at the jor did not have such rigorous a 20 to 24 page, award-winning invited Ea- front of the class, sets his brief- mathematical requirements. singular and respected journal- gan to write case down and brushes his tie However, he changed yet again. ism voice, which is distributed " down to a neat, businessman’s ^ " in all 34 California prisons. him as long white shirt. The day’s lesson college, leaving most of the “What else should you ask as there were begins. school newspaper staff ill, ‘’"‹%- no inquiries “Write tight,” Eagan tells the Eagan was asked to assist. “I gers laced together and brown “> class of incarcerated men. “Tell told the editor I didn’t know eyes signaling an eagerness to assassination. me what I need to know, and how to write like a journalist,” tell another story. “How about = - don’t tell me what I don’t need says Eagan. the most important story in terward Ea- to know.” According to Eagan, the edi- which I have been involved?” gan spent his His 80 years and fulsome tor’s response was: “’Whatever When Eagan was the as- Christmas experience in newsrooms com- you can do is better than noth- sistant bureau chief and news Eves at the mand the listeners’ respect. ing.’” After the editor read the editor at the Associated Press Warren fami- Eagan, who has interviewed articles Eagan wrote, he called (AP) in Chicago, he came ly’s St. Helena the likes of former President Eagan “a really good liar,” be- across a story in a local news- ranch where Ronald Reagan and former cause the articles were well paper about a doctor, Henry Jay he would in- Chief Justice of the US Su- written and suited for publica- Heimlich, who was promoting terview Chief preme Court Earl Warren, tion. an emergency technique he Justice War- gives instruction, even when “I found something I could claimed would eject an object, ren and take he himself is the interview sub- do well, so I changed my major such as food, from the trachea a photograph ject. and graduated in three semes- of a choking person. Many re- of the Warren File photo “What are the three most ters,” said Eagan. jected Heimlich as a quack, family. Eagan speaking at a SQ Forum April 2016 SAN QUENTIN NEWS www.sanquentinnews.com Page 7 New Reform Urges Voters to Help Juveniles By John Lam 130,000 additional Journalism Guild Writer YES votes for this initiative. If In a letter addressed to &'($* everyone in CDCR all concerned parties, Anti- got 10 people to Recidivism Coalition (ARC) words, the time served would their say in November. There vote, we would founder Scott Budnick urged be limited to the longest term will be a lot of people in support have an additional readers to become involved of imprisonment imposed by of this effort, and many in 1.3 million votes,” in the effort to get Governor the court for any offense, ex- opposition…There are others Budnick wrote. Brown’s criminal justice re- cluding enhancements, con- who will spend the [upcoming] “This could ulti- forms approved in the No- secutive sentence or alterna- months scaring the public into mately encourage vember 2016 ballot. Budnick tive sentence. believing that violent offenders people to grow, is asking for help from in- will be set free to rape and change, rehabilitate carcerated people to promote murder innocent people,” and come home to awareness of these proposed Budnick wrote. their families. We reforms. “Imagine the “The President of the District all know this will Governor Brown’s proposed Attorneys Association and enhance public criminal justice reforms in- impact if former Los Angeles District safety, not jeopar- clude: everyone inside Attorney Steve Cooley have dize it,” noted Bud- Granting the California De- already said this initiative will nick partment of Corrections and got just one erode public safety, as have Other ways that Rehabilitation the authority person to vote” Republican Senators Andy incarcerated people to award credits for inmate Vidak (Hanford) and Senator can help includes File photo to reduce their sentences, by Jim Nielson (Gerber).” raising awareness Scott Budnick participating in educational, Budnick gives the following through artwork. vocational and self-help pro- The determination of charg- suggestions for contributing to “We will hold an art auction art auctioneers, and a consider- grams. ing minors in juvenile or adult the effort: in the fall to raise funds and able amount of funding, all to Requiring persons convict- court would shift from prose- Make sure all family mem- awareness for this movement. " —- ed of a non-violent felony of- cutors to juvenile court judges bers and friends, who are legal The funds will help us fund re- tion and also the artists inside fense and sentenced to state and require them to consider US citizens and not on parole, entry programs, housing, men- (50/50). “We have many board prison to be eligible for pa- the youth’s developmental register to vote on Nov. 4. toring, job training and support members with powerful con- role consideration after com- status, cognitive ability, and “Imagine the impact if for people coming home.” nections in the art world, and pleting the full term of his/ social history. everyone inside got just one The auction will be held in a believe art inside could sell at her primary offense. In other “Californians will have person to vote, we would have major museum, with celebrity /+ he added. the proposed ballot, or how to Wrongful Convictions Overturned get involved, write to:

An overwhelming number of arrests, were falsely implicated youth of color were often ac- confessed after particularly Anti-Recidivism Coalition cases of wrongfully convicted by other children. cused of committing crimes in long interrogations – 448 South Hill St. minors involve youths of color. “Seventeen-year-old Ethel large groups. sometimes between 10 and 30 Suite 908 “Thirty-four of the 329 Q - “According to Department of hours – lasting over several Los Angeles, CA 90013 DNA-based exonerees were formant,’ told police that she’d Justice data, juveniles of color days without family and legal arrested as minors. Thirty- heard rumors that 15-year-old are believed to offend heavily guidance.” Or contact Caitlin Ahearn, two out of that 34 are people Leon Brown had committed a in groups, as approximately 40 “Until we address the Associate Director of develop- of color; specifically, 30 of 1983 rape and murder of a lo- percent of all juvenile criminal breakdown in the criminal ment and Communications at them are black,” the Innocence cal girl. She also told them that activity involves a group of justice system that Anti-Recidivism Coalition, at Project reported. Henry McCollum, then 19, juvenile offenders,” the project disproportionately targets and [email protected] or Wrongful conviction acted strange. McCollum and reported. convicts people of color, and (213) 955-5885. experts Sam Gross and Joshua Brown, half-brothers, were ar- [ any continuing underlying bias, Scott Budnick is the founder Tepfer conducted a study to R- guilt admissions make up innocent people – especially and president of ARC, a social determine why youths of color formation. The brothers falsely 84 percent of the cases of black youth – will continue advocate, and Hollywood are drastically overrepresented confessed and were tried and exonerees of color who were to pay the heavy burden in producer known for “The in these cases, and three key convicted, serving 30 years arrested as juveniles. disproportionate numbers of ™ ™ % overlapping patterns emerged. before they were finally exon- According to the project, wrongful convictions,” stated criminal justice reform includes 1. At least 75 percent of erated in 2014 based on DNA “Many of the exonerees of Edwin Grimsely, Innocence "=" exonerees of color, who were testing,” the project cited. color, who were convicted Project case analyst. making into law SB9, SB260, minors at the time of their 2. Wrongfully convicted when they were minors, – John Lam SB261 and AB1276. SB260 Allows Youth Offender to Earn a Second Chance

Vinh Nguyen was found of 16 when he was sentenced placed, that there will forever suitable for release during his to 29 years to life for first- be emptiness in their lives, first parole board appearance degree murder. and I have to live with that.” under a Senate Bill 260 youth Nguyen’s turning point offender hearing. came when he found that he Thanks to self-help pro- had a life sentence. grams, Nguyen said he came “Each one of us He sought out self-help to accept responsibility for has the capacity groups early on, learned Eng- his crime and seriously regret lish, and obtained trade skills the harm he caused. to work ourselves from vocational programs to He credits VOEG (Victim out of our own better himself. Offender Education Group) He said the message he as having the most important wanted to give to other juve- dark place” Photo by Sam Hearnes impact on him. Courtesy of CDCR nile offenders is, “Each one “VOEG gave me insight Vinh Nguyen 20 years of us has the capacity to work about who I was, where and into prison “I now have the opportu- later ourselves out of our own dark how I went wrong, how I can nity to make amends on a place, to free ourselves men- do better, and become the I need help. Most important- broader scale. I harmed so by being of service to others,” tally through education and person I am today, more lov- ly, it helped me understand many people because of my Nguyen said. service, and to offer support ing and caring,” he said in an remorse and the pain that I crime. That is not something “Today, I understand the to help each other by sharing interview. “It also helped me have caused the victim’s fam- I want people to know me by; pain I caused Mr. Sosa’s fam- our own experience.” redefine myself, to surround ily.” I want them to know that I ily to endure. Specifically, I Vinh Nguyen paroled in myself with a support net- Nguyen has been incarcer- have grown and can become a understand that I took away January 2016. work that I can come to when ated for 20 years since the age productive member of society their son, who cannot be re- – John Lam

&'&'+# adults to life terms. The group’s mission is to inspire humanity through education, mentorship and restorative practices. &'($##2#$2 2&(78';&'($<=((7&'>?>@? Page 8 SAN QUENTIN NEWS www.sanquentinnews.com April 2016 Sheriff Gives Ex-Felon Second Chance By Charles David Henry desire to box. prison, the story adds. of jail for a total of 12 years. his life began that turn-around Journalism Guild Writer His mother introduced him “When you’re making choic- “God allowed me to get cycle. es to use and get high, and have through some of that stuff According to The News, The universal axiom of “what which eventually led him to an addiction, I just had to have to prepare me to help other Henderson had arrested, goes around comes around” is the Golden Gloves and Silver it. … It makes you ignore life- people,” he told The News. interrogated and investigated one of those parables that have Mitten championships, and a threatening situations, knowing That passion led him to Hill multiple times. But despite modest importance to a person chance at the nationals. But you have a family that needs Kansas, where he worked for these criminal encounters, until he experiences life’s full before he reached his full you,” he told The Hutchinson Higher Ground’s substance- Henderson and Hill developed circle. Michael “Tiny” Hill Jr. is potential, he ignored his God- News. By the time he was 17, he abuse program. There he got an extraordinary bond. one of those persons. In a story was hooked on crack cocaine, reacquainted with a former After their paths crossed published by The Hutchinson with drugs and ultimately faced and admitted he was addicted \‹_ again, Henderson, who is now News, his circle began with a a possible 35-year sentence in for 20 years. He was in and out named Randy Henderson, and the sheriff of Reno County, hired Hill as the program director for the county’s correctional facility. “I needed SQ Prisoners Celebrate Annual this because I needed someone who could reach inmates,” Henderson told The News. The success of this experiment Black History Month Program was exactly what Henderson expected from Hill. By Marcus Henderson absent. touched on issues of greed, Malcolm X and the mathemati- The Reno County Correc- Sports Editor “Those who were here were disease and the state of poli- cians, architects and scientist = meant to be here; truth is not tics. “Can you smell the insan- who built the pyramids,” stated seven groups which includes In the midst of mass for everybody,” said Bilal ity?” Harrison would repeat- Taylor. Peer Support and Substance incarceration, Black Lives Hamilton, who spoke on the edly ask. He said the men in the Abuse Programs, GED, Anger Matter and an election year, San Trans-Atlantic slave trade. Ira Perry gave a gripping audience were black diamonds Management, Seeking Safety Quentin prisoners celebrated Hamilton used a map to spoken word on what it means -- those who have been formed and a mental health class. Since their Second Annual Black demonstrate the hardship growing up African-American, under different life pressures. its inauguration, Hill has grad- History Month program. of the journey and how the highlighting police brutality, He stressed that Blacks here ] “It was a success,” said Shai people were settled in Haiti, the names of slain people over are American and that loving inmates at the jail from these Alkebu-lan, the inmate pro- Dominican Republic and the past years and not knowing Black people doesn’t mean life-skill programs, The News gram coordinator. “I wish more Jamaica. if you would live from day to hating someone else. said. people would have come, but " day. “The Just Us” band provided “When I think about God, I those who did, I think, would present, Bryant “The Truth” Harun Taylor was master of soothing melodies throughout think about when my case was go out and spread the light.” Harrison gave a brilliant spoken ceremonies and performed “I the event. It consists of Charlie going on,” he said. “Why was I € word poem called “Hypocritical am 3.0,” a third poem in a se- Spencer on guitar, drummer found not guilty of that crime George Williams, the Catholic Oath.” ries. Using meta-physical word Paul Oliver, and Terrence that I openly admit I played a Chapel hosted the 50-plus His poetic words weaved in play about positive energy and Slaughter, bass. role in? When I say, ‘Why me?’ " and out of the hypnotic sound the principle that everyone is They performed a jazz version I think about how God saved The group consisted mostly of the band “Just Us.” He called one, and “we are those who of “Living for the Love,” by the my life, and I think about where of older men -- the younger the people to “Wake up, self- came before us.” Isley Brothers, and a classic Bill I’ve come from and where I’m generation was noticeably destruction is the case.” He “We are Martin Luther King, Withers tune, “Using Me.” at now.” Youth Offender Program Aims to Curb Violence

By Juan Haines " older Tongan man, a lifer named speaking and career-building awareness group; and Insight Staff Writer installed work ethics in him. Damon Cooke. Wainiqolo said skills. The program currently Gardening. He said he’s proud of the Cooke explained San Quentin has 10 members who are men- Wainiqolo also had the op- Youthful inmates beginning % was a prison with a lot of tors for 20 young men. portunity to participate in the their sentences in high-security " programs and that inmates were Wainiqolo’s mentor is TEDx San Quentin conference prisons run into all kinds #% preparing to re-enter society. Reginald S. Hola, a co-founder on Jan. 22. & —= % “I thought to myself, ‘This is of REAL, who also happens “I’ve gotten to see his tre- address the problem, California out alive,” he said. really a place for people to take to be Wainiqolo’s close family mendous wisdom,” Wainiqolo lawmakers passed the Youth Wainiqolo said the busy advantage of the opportunities, member. said about Hola. “He’s been Offender Program late last " " regardless if the person didn’t “I was young when (Hola) a great positive mentor since year. a tremendous opportunity for have a set date,’” Wainiqolo got locked up,” Wainiqolo said. I’ve been here. He showed me “The goal is to keep youth positive change in his life. said. “His generation influenced my that relationships can either away from more serious and “We would work every day He reported Jason Jones generation while I was coming help grow your vision or choke and go into the community and helped him stay on the straight up in the streets.” your dreams.” found at high-security level do whatever they or the city and narrow. Jones created Through Hola’s mentorship, Wainiqolo is scheduled to be prisons,” said Joe Orlando, a needed, like weed-whacking Recognizing Every Active Wainiqolo said he saw released from prison in May. "% "" Leader (REAL) to match older how Hola had developed a “Upon release, I plan to the California Department of forestry work,” Wainiqolo inmates with younger inmates “gratitude mind-set.” focus on being a pro-active Corrections and Rehabilitation. said. “I never imagined myself in order to mentor and guide Hola led Wainiqolo to self- member in my community and Sidney Ralph Wainiqolo is obtaining skills in this trade, them into self-help programs help groups including the being committed to my goals = % especially during incarceration. and positive activities. Native Hawaiian Service; and work hard to strive for a " ™ The experience helped me REAL is a 10-week course Restoring Our Original True better future,” Wainiqolo said. offense was an armed robbery open up more and, in a sense, that teaches participants lead- Selves (ROOTS), an Asian “Being here with my loved committed at age 16. He augmented my personal ership skills, history, public Pacific Islander cultural ones had made that possible.” received a four-year sentence growth.” to the Division of Juvenile Wainiqolo said after getting Justice, formerly known as the an illegal cellphone, to contact ' California Youth Authority his family, he got caught and (YA). " “The YA is a dog-eat-dog “It was a mistake, but I world,” Wainiqolo said. “We missed my family,” he said. Lower Prison Phone Rates fought, participated in riots “Since I’ve been down at 16, I By Kevin D. Sawyer “setting caps on calling rates” Commissioner Mignon Clyburn and other illegal activities. I only got one visit from them.” Associate Editor and “setting caps on fees for said in a written statement, Wainiqolo was informed single-call services.” “While we regret that relief to survive.” that he was being sent to San A federal court order “Everybody sues us about from high inmate calling rates Wainiqolo said after enduring Quentin State Prison. "= = will be delayed for struggling the trials and tribulations of “I knew I was going where all Communications Commission Tom Wheeler told reporters. families and their 2.7 million YA, he considers himself lucky the big boys were,” Wainiqolo š› " Inmate calling companies children trying to stay in "" said. cap on the cost of calls that are suing to overturn the touch with a loved one, we as a juvenile offender. “I was nervous, but I wasn’t inmates make from prison, regulations. are gratified that costly and % scared,” he said. “I didn’t really The Hill reported. “The rules, which were burdensome ancillary charges something I never thought of know much about the Youth In a suit filed against the slated to take effect (in March), will come to an end.” growing up or even doing,” he Offender Program until the =}&œ‚& are meant to lower the prices According to The Hill, said. “We traveled all through counselor explained it to me.” U.S. Court of Appeals for the that inmates and their families prison phone companies Northern California, and the Wainiqolo said San Quentin District of Columbia Circuit pay to talk on the phone,” The indicated early on that they food was great.” was completely different than granted motions regarding the Hill reported. % R Wainiqolo said the harsh what he expected. He met an R @" ' Wheeler and Democratic rulings. April 2016 SAN QUENTIN NEWS www.sanquentinnews.com Page 9 Blues Quartet Sings Classics to Prisoners By Juan Haines it reminds me of good and Penhallo played Staff Writer days — of love and the together. prospect of a better world “What a lovely time,” On a Sunday night more than being articulated through Penhallo said, referring 100 men, most slightly older the songs,” said James to his experience. “You than your average prisoner, Metters, who normally guys’ hearts are giving gathered in a chapel to hear goes to the Protestant something to us.” a Blues Quartet brought into Chapel on Sunday nights. Harrell has been in- “Are you ready for side San Quentin several by Lisa Starbird of Bread & some Rock and Roll?” times. Her last perfor- Roses Presents. Huget asked the audi- mance, two years ago, “We’re on to a great start,” ence, which brought was with Huget and said guitarist and singer Kurt whistles, claps, and a few Saunders on the prison’s Huget after playing “Ain’t No “Yeah! Rock and Roll!” Lower Yard at the an- Sunshine,” “House of the Ris- “I came here to nual Avon Walk Against ing Sun” and “Whiter Shade support Lisa (Starbird), Breast Cancer. of Pale.” who brings artists in “It’s great to see all “I was a kid when this mu- here to perform for us,” the smiles,” Harrell said. sic came out,” said Mark Te- said Joey Barnes, as the After closing with deschi. “Our family would go music of The Beatles, “Hand Jive” by Johnny water skiing on the weekends. Janus Joplin, and Buffalo Oates, the audience went We’d have lunch at this place File photo Springfield filled the air. File photo to the stage to shake and my mother would give me Tony Saunders before Saunders, whose ex- Kurt Huget in performance hands with the band. a handful of quarters for the a live audience tended bass solos brought at San Quentin While autographs jukebox.” several whoops and ap- were signed, stories Heads were bopping with playing of Tony Saunders, plauds, has several CDs avail- The quartet played an were exchanged about life in clapping in rhythm throughout Peter Penhallo on piano, and able on Amazon, including original, “Ain’t Gonna Muddy the 1960s and ‘70s, the era  " = the drumming of Julia Harrell. Romancing the Bass, Uptown The Water Anymore,” which when most of the songs were Huget, along with the bass “When I listen to this music Jazz and Appaloosa. was the first time Huget hits. Renown Photographer Shares Life Stories at SQ

By Eddie Herena segregated South,” where “the San Quentin News life of the Black man was fields Photographer and chain gangs,” Johnson said /Ÿ% Pictures help people to un- He spent most of his teenage derstand and appreciate oth- =“ ers, a noted Black photogra- At the age of 6, he witnessed pher said in a recent visit to a woman’s murder and his San Quentin State Prison. parents were imprisoned for David Johnson said his the killing. Another trauma black and white photos of was learning they were not his F "= biological parents. hop-scotch or young people One day while working for dancing the night away not the local grocer, Johnson saw only portray the beauty of his a magazine ad offering a free medium, but were “designed camera to anyone who sold a to enlighten the world about certain number of subscrip- the beauty of our people.” tions. He won the camera and The beauty of his medium has been looking through a also entails a powerful lens ever since. message: a racially segregated Seeing little chance for his Black and White America. future in the South, he moved He grew up in the “very to California and attended

Courtesy of David Johnson Courtesy of David Johnson David Johnson 2015 David Johnson 1942 F At one point he pulled out a endure, that you are really ^ F sheet of paper with some of his strong, and you really do have of `46, becoming the first thoughts, including: worth.” Black student of the late Ansel “You learn to build all your Adams, a giant in the history roads on today, because to- David Johnson’s photogra- of photography. morrow’s ground is too uncer- phy book is available locally Johnson’s wife, journalist tain for plans... at Barnes and Noble, The Jacqueline Annette Sue, wrote “Instead of waiting for Depot, Mill Valley or from the book about his life, titled someone to bring you flowers, www.davidsjohnsonphotog- “A Dream Begun So Long you learn that you really can raphy.com Ago,” which contains many of Courtesy of David Johnson the photographs from his long Boys and Flags 1947 Hunters Point career. Summarizing his phi- losophy, he said, “Dreams are not made of proper words, but of images.” It tells the story of Johnson growing up in the Great De- pression, serving in the Navy during World War II and pur- suing a career of photograph- ing images of “how it was,” in F the ‘40s, ‘50s, and ‘60s. This was Johnson’s second visit to San Quentin. His first visit was 20 years ago, when he attempted to help a former prisoner after meeting him at

Courtesy of David Johnson a church service. That ended Courtesy of David Johnson badly, with the man going Boy and Lincoln 1963 back to prison. Man on Skateboard 1947 Page 10 SAN QUENTIN NEWS www.sanquentinnews.com April 2016 SAN QUENTIN NEWS www.sanquentinnews.com Page 11 Kid CAT Banquet Shares Insight and Solutions for Youth Continued from Page 1 leaving him nothing but a set showing incarcerated men tell- the event, but Michael Stubbs, of hats. When a teenager teased % = the ARC board chairman, About 150 inside men mingled him about one “ugly” hat, from the advocacy work of accepted the award on his with about 50 visitors and Khan responded in violence Calvin, Parker, Human Rights behalf. volunteers, including criminal and ended up in continuation Watch, Anti-Recidivism Coali- ^%% justice advocate heavyweights school. Then his mother moved tion, and other organizations given to the volunteers that Elizabeth Calvin, Senior away, leaving Khan with rela- in getting laws changed that support the program including: Advocate, Children’s Right’s tives who asked him to leave affect people who committed David Inocencio, founder of the Division, Human Right’s because he was acting out. The crimes as juveniles. Beat Within magazine; Alison Watch and Alison Parker, homeless teenager eventually Kid CAT gave Calvin and Parker, Phil Towle, Alexandra Director of Human Right’s landed in prison for taking part ARC’s Scott Budnick humani- Williams, Karin Drucker, Watch, U.S. Program and Jody in a robbery where his co-de- tarian awards for their very Adam Zagelbaum, Woody Wu, Kent Lavy of the Campaign for fendant stabbed and killed the successful work. Marsha Williams and Sara Fair Sentencing for Youth, and victim. Calvin used her acceptance Sindija. The Marshall Project’s new Sarandon said, “The lottery speech time to advocate for Alexandra Williams orga- president, Carroll Bogert. of birth, who your parents are, more changes. She asked that nized the banquet. Sarandon and Bogert were if your father is around, con- everyone recruit their family “It was a lot of work, but it’s scheduled as keynote speakers. tributes so much to mistakes members to help gather the sig- rewarding,” said Williams. However, Sarandon declined to that you could end up paying a natures needed to get Califor- She knows Sarandon from her speak. very high price for.” nia Gov. Jerry Brown’s initia- husband, Zack Williams, son of “It’s so soul-sucking to talk However, all three Kid CAT tive on the ballot. the late actor Robin Williams. about yourself all the time,” presenters expressed that their She said the governor’s initia- Alexandra said she has always Photo by Eddie Herrena- San Quentin News said Sarandon. “I’d rather hear circumstances weren’t an ex- tive does two primary things: Photo by Eddie Herrena- San Quentin News wanted to help younger people, from you. I really would like to Miguel Quezada, Adnan Khan and Joe Hancock sharing their Stories cuse for committing murder. It makes it possible for CDCR Audience listening intently to Kid CAT speakers probably because she was know what you want from me; “I’m not in prison today be- to make a merit system with a bullied as a kid. I can give your voice to the out- =%= Sarandon answered, “I can Hancock. “Feeling threatened cause my dad wasn’t around, much-higher credit possibility. ""=- 80,000 a week. So I am asking Afterward, grateful benefac- The event ended to the sounds side.” them, said DeWeaver. Kid CAT talk to people. Do we have to = # school suspensions or home- It would also change how tem on its head. you to ask your family and tors of Calvin’s efforts lined of David Jassy performing, “If Sarandon sat in front of the wants its emotional intelligent wait for a banquet? Yeah War- shot to kill him. Afterward, I lessness. I’m in prison because California decides when to send “Only way it will end up people you know if they can up to get her autograph and These Walls Could Talk.” audience with Kid CAT mem- curriculum to be offered in den, do we have to wait for a ran and called 911 and told the I made a choice to participate a child into the adult system. on the ballot is if we collect get training on how to get thanked her for giving them a “They’d tell about the pain ber Adnan Khan as other mem- schools in the community. banquet?” dispatcher what I’d done.” in a robbery,” said Khan. It would make it the assumed 800,000 signatures,” said signatures by going to www. chance at freedom. of watching life thrown away,” bers asked for her help in vari- Sarandon responded, “I Warden Ron Davis replied, Khan spoke of his father Melendez introduced a video outcome kids stay in Juvenile Calvin. “That’s more than fairsentencingforyouth.org.” Budnick was not present at rapped Jassy. ous ways. would have to know about it “We have things going on all Emile DeWeaver asked, and live on this coast. I’m com- the time.” “Can you be our spokesper- ing to LA in the fall to work on Kid CAT host Phil Melen- son to pitch emotional intelli- a TV series. Educate me, I’d be dez introduced guest speaker gence?” happy to work on it. Thanks for Bogert by listing her creden- Trade Program Assists Graduates for Re-entry Emotional intelligence teach- the invitation. tials. They include being the es awareness of what your emo- Lemar Harris asked, “Would former deputy executive di- By Rahsaan Thomas and using basic construction tions are telling you, so you can you bring more people like rector of external relations at Journalism Guild Chairman tools. identify what your needs are, yourself in?” Human Right’s Watch, gradu- Laborer jobs start at $18.67 ating magna cum laude from Ten San Quentin residents an hour but climb to $28 after Harvard University, reporting have graduated from a pre- working 3,600 hours, Venegas for Newsweek magazine and is apprentice construction labor said. ' program that will help them Venegas said he noticed Mandarin. get jobs when they return ex-felons were good workers “We have to do something home. while doing the hiring as a about the biggest problem in “We want you to be production manager for a huge America – the criminal jus- successful out on the streets,” demolition company. tice system,” said Bogert. “It Prison Industry Authority “I found out ex-felons are should rise to the level of a na- (PIA) Administrator Rusty some of the best workers be- Photo by Eddie Herrena- San Quentin News tional emergency.” Bechtold told them. “You go cause they are hungry to do Bogert spoke of the power Elizabeth Calvin of Human Right’s Watch out there with the knowledge well,” said Venegas. “So when of journalism to change the and skill to join the labor I ran across this opportunity system and alert Americans to union.” (to teach), I didn’t think twice what’s going on. She invited Bechtold called finishing about it at all.” incarcerated men to send their the program a milestone that Another benefit graduates personal stories about prison will help the men find success. of the program have is being life to The Marshall Project, Graduates of the laborer- recommended by PIA for the the criminal justice online training program get several Photo by Kevin Cole upcoming joint venture jobs news service. benefits when they return to Javier Flores, Gregorio Venegas, Graduate Earl Nuru and Rusty Bechtold with Big Dog, a refrigera- Kid CAT members Miguel society. tion manufacturing company. Quezada, Joe Hancock and “Upon graduation and re- “It’s a good opportunity that a success rate that 93 percent That way when I’m released, I However, it will be up to Big Khan told personal stories lease, we guarantee union they are giving us,” said grad- will not come back.” can get my life back on track. Dog to decide who they hire. of how underlying unmet membership in three trades – uate Damen Noel. Bechtold hosted the small Every man should know the Bechtold recommended the emotional needs affected their Iron Workers, Carpenters and The guarantee of union Feb. 18 gathering, which La- fundamentals of how to oper- graduates keep their training journey through the pipeline Laborers,” said class instruc- membership and other benefits borer Union 261 representa- ate and use tools. It’s some- sharp while waiting for re- Photo by Eddie Herrena- San Quentin News into prison. tor Gregorio Venegas. make this San Quentin pro- tive Javier Flores attended. thing the older generation had lease by working for Inmate Woody Wu speaking to audience Hancock spoke of moving to The San Quentin program gram unique, Bechtold said. “I came here to support to learn and it also gives Black Day Labor on construction Sacramento and experiencing also pays their first-year union “We are the only program these guys and look for the men the opportunity to be suc- projects around the prison. dues, provides a free set of that has an agreement and a best apprentices,” said Flores. cessful in the workforce.” –Richard Richardson Gang members tried to bully tools, and recognition as a true contract with the training cen- “I expect every one of these Walker said he learned and Eddie Herena him. pre-apprentice. ter,” said Bechtold. “We have graduates to be prepared and skills like pouring concrete contributed to this story “At 19 I developed a sense do their best and do the right that I had to be tough and use Photo by Eddie Herrena- San Quentin News thing.” violence for survival,” said Carroll Bogert Giving Keynote Speech Bechtold called each indi- vidual graduate up to a podi- um on a low stage to receive a certificate and take a photo. In addition to Noel, the graduates were Joseph Garcia, Nagee Walker, Yonathan Tesfay, Aaron Dufour, Arthur Snowden, Michael Smith, Rene Pryor, Earl Nuru and Clifton Celestine. They all cheered for each other when their names were called. “This is a big step in rehabil- itation in my life,” said Nuru. Tesfay said, “I’ve been in prison from the age of 19 to 24 and I’ve had no job experience; Photo by Eddie Herrena- San Quentin News Photo by Eddie Herrena- San Quentin News Photo by Kevin Cole Photo by Kevin Cole therefore, I needed to take ad- Photo by Kevin Cole Photo by Kevin Cole Jarred Elkins shares his story with the audience Audience watching a juvenile documentary Graduate Yonathan Tesfay Graduate Joseph Garcia vantage of this opportunity. Graduate Arthur Snowden Graduate Rene Pryor Page 12 SAN QUENTIN NEWSwww.sanquentinnews.com April 2016 Arts & Entertainment

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1. Seattle, Wash. — The state’s inmates died in a 1980 prison highest court is taking a new FAssociated look at the death penalty. Doz- News Briefs Press reports. ens of former state judges are 10. Phoenix, Ariz. — Relief claiming the state’s death pen- from inadequate health care is alty is unconstitutional, the As- lagging because “the state is sociate Press reports. dragging its feet in carrying out 1 2. Sacramento, Calif. — State the improvements it promised " when it agreed to resolve the F%‚= case,” the Associated Press re- Jones, 22, died from her injuries ports. The settlement was won 11 |“%= 7 on behalf of 33,000 inmates. a boulder that had rolled down a 11. New York — Vanessa hill. She was airlifted to UCLA 2 Gathers spent 10 years behind 3 8 Medical Center, where she was 4 bars for a deadly robbery. She 13 listed in critical condition with 5 initially said she had nothing to major head injuries. Jones’ 12 do with it but later confessed. organs were donated after she Prosecutors recently agreed was removed from life support to her release after examining in keeping with her family’s 6 9 her since-recanted confession, wishes. 10 %"""% 3. Sacramento, Calif. — Gov. facts that didn’t add up, which Jerry Brown announced the ap- caused the detective’s tactics pointment of two posts in the to come under question, the state prison system’s commu- Associated Press reports. “= - 12. Virginia — There is no lison was appointed assistant waiting period for the restoration secretary of communications at of voting rights for persons the California Department of convicted of nonviolent offenses Corrections and Rehabilitation. after the end of supervision. Vicky Waters was appointed coupled with nutrition and ex- clude space for rehabilitation and develop skills to help them However, persons with more CDCR press secretary. Neither ercise to emphasize total and programs. The new facility also stay out of prison, once released. serious offenses must wait three " ’ F - complete wellness. Education is expected to employ 377 staff. 8. Salt Lake City, Utah — years after the end of supervision mation. TV provides programming to 6. Riverside, Calif. — The State senators voted 15-12 to and submit an application that 4. Sacramento, Calif. — State help inmates with mathematics, Berkeley, Calif. based Prison abolish the death penalty on includes a letter from their " % - social studies, English, history, ‚% ! %- March 2. The measure now goes probation or parole supervisor, ducing new television channels geography, government, visual suit alleging inmate abuse and before the Republican-dominat- the Associated Press reports. geared to help the prisoners’ re- and performing arts, and much other violations in the county ed House. If it passes the House, 13. Washington D.C. — The &£ more. Employment TV offers jails. The lawsuit alleges that Gov. Gary Herbert, a supporter nation’s highest court reversed offers aid to inmates’ efforts in programming designed to help staff use excessive force and of the death penalty, would like- the 2002 murder conviction of substance-use disorders, anger inmates develop employable medical and mental health care ly veto the bill, the Associated Louisiana Death Row inmate management, criminal thinking, Œ* Associated Press reports. Michael Wearry, the Associated and family relationships in de- interviewing, resume-building Press reports. 9. New Mexico — Prisoner Press reports. The ruling cited veloping positive social and per- = 7. Hartford, Conn. — A new = ™%= the failure of prosecutors to sonal skills. Wellness TV focuses 5. Mule Creek State Prison re-integration facility opened in an injunction against the use of turn over evidence casting on aiding inmates in developing N & = | % % double-celling in the Western doubt on the credibility of a and maintaining positive health- moved into the prison’s new capacity to add 12 more prison- ~%ˆ]- prison informant and another centric habits. Inmates can learn = & ¥[[+ - ers, the Associate Press reports. ity, court documents show. The witness and the state’s failure to the factors that affect wellness lion, 60-acre facility ultimately The facility has programming injunction cites a 1991 decree disclose medical records raising of mind and body. Cognitive will house 1,584 inmates in a designed help the women iden- that brought federal oversight questions about a witness’ behavioral therapy content is dorm-style setting and also in- tify issues that led to their arrests over the state’s prisons after 33 description of the crime. WORDCROSS PUZZLE

ACROSS 54. Bridges of of conception 1. Super Bowl 50 Network Stargate-SG1 9. Banks of the “America’s 4. ___ King Cole 55. Saturn has more Next Top Model” 7. Set of equipment of this than Earth 10. It is mightier 10. A quick gentle tap 57. To live in a debauched than the sword 13. Mixture to life (Slang) 11. Computer keyboard thicken a stew 58. 34 Down had button 14. Oxygen 88 of these 12. Boxing term 15. Adams of “Man of Steel” 61. Prison Slang: 18. VCR button 16.‚] sending & retrieving 20. Yelchin of “Star Trek” 17. 37 Across companion items from cell to cell 22. CDCR’s Mental 19. Seaport in SE Italy 64. Yogi gesture of salutation Health program 21. Retiring San Quentin 68. Canton of EC 23. Windows, MAC, News Advisor Switzerland Android are forms of 23. TV show “____ 69. Unknown John or Jane 24. Actress Long Upon a Time” 70. “The Simpsons” = 26. To make amends game console 25. 24-7 news channel 27. Movie “____ Raider” 71. Internet company that 28. ___ Clean detergent was this (Singular) WORDCROSS ANSWERS 31. Kelly Clarkson song merged w/Time Warner 29. Soldier lost in 45. Classic western “___ You’ve Been Gone” 72. Acura’s sport car model combat (Abbrev.) TV Show 33.F 73. To wander or go astray 30. Canadian province 46. Latin dance in Korean 74. Pirates’ grunt bordering Idaho & 47. A type of beer 34. March’s book review 75. 1 Across comedy Washington State 48.^ about schools ^ (Abbrev.) for a prisoner (Abbrev.) 35. Marvel superhero DOWN 32. 49. Class of words that paroled from SQ 1. S.Q. Graduation group 34. Acronym of March’s expressing action 37. City & port in Canada =+/ graduation story (Abbrev.) 39. Healthy once a day 2. A drunken spree (Slang) 36. Intel’s alternative 51."= routine (Abbrev.) 3. Govt. agency that 38. Character Gold 53. __-Ha moment 40. Chemical symbol for investigates insider of “Entourage” 55. House of the Lord of a? table element 44 trading 41. Singer Corinne 56." 41. City in SoCal Valley 4. Apple music player Bailey ___ 59. “____ Along” starring 62. Govt. tax agency 45. Capital & seaport 5. Tyler of “The Talk” 42. Govt. agency Ice Cube & Kevin Hart 63. Tom Clancy’s in Guinea 6. Capital of N.J. regulating pollution 60. A ruler or prince Rainbow ___ 49. 7. Japanese swords & 43. Sighing or rustling in a Muslim country 65. Uncle ___ 50. “Holy Diver” Band Kawasaki motorcycles sound 61. Clothing that 66. More than enough 52. City in central Chile 8. Mental picture 44. Jackie Robinson PETA opposes 67. Dutch ___ disease Page 14 SAN QUENTIN NEWSwww.sanquentinnews.com April 2016 Por Thomas Gardner " — operación”. en el 2004, se solicito a el ICE inmigración, lo cual no es ético. Escritor del Gremio el uso de la detención de El gobierno necesita aumentar su numero de camas “El sector privado no debería Periodístico inmigrantes en general”. terminar con la “cuota de disponibles para inmigrantes ser recompensado por colocar La Inmigración y la Agencia detención”, estos contratos detenidos. Del 2006 al 2010 una etiqueta de precio en la El gobierno de los Estados de Aduana (ICE) han hecho “que garantizan un número de las instituciones fueron privación de la libertad, y se Unidos necesita dejar de traba- contratos con al menos seis detenidos” aseguran un pago a construidas con una capacidad debería responsabilizar a el jar a la par con el sector corpo- diferentes compañías privadas los contratistas de las prisiones de espacio para “mantener” gobierno por su deliberada de detención, “para garantizar " Œ 34,000 personas (cuenta participación en este sistema número de inmigrantes deteni- un numero mínimo de número mínimo de camas en mínima), el informe detallo. corrupto”, informan los autores dos, de acuerdo a un reporte en detenidos”, según el informe. las cárceles sin importar que De acuerdo al reporte, “la del reporte. el 2015. El ex-director de ICE, John estas camas se necesiten, el mayoría de los miembros del En la década pasada, el La relación “asegura” altas Sandweg comento, “Hacer reporte explica. Congreso han sugerido al ICE sistema de detención por ganancias para las compañías un convenio que estipule la El informe critica a la vez el interpretar con mas claridad parte de la inmigración a privadas de la prisión contrata- detención de cierto numero de uso del “precio de piso”, en el el requerimiento de que todas incrementado en un 75%, das por el gobierno de U.S.A., personas, sin importar cuantos cual el ICE recibe un descuento las camas para detención estén comentan los autores. según un reporte de el Centro de ellos sean una amenaza por cada persona detenida por ocupadas a todo momento – El reporte concluye que el ICE para Derechos Constituciona- para la seguridad publica o encima del numero garantizado, ’  debe dejar de usar el precio de les y la Red de Vigilancia de una amenaza para la integridad el reporte informa. de 34,000 camas no solo sean piso y terminar de garantizar un Detención (Center of Consti- de el sistema, no tiene ningún El informe estipula que los numero mínimo de detenidos, tucional Rights and Detention sentido. Lo correcto seria acuerdos “sirven para proteger ocupadas todos los días”. así mismo, el Congreso debe Watch Network). obtener un numero real de lo básico de las compañías The Center for Constitucional eliminar el numero de camas “Hay un consenso en personas detenidas que son una privadas”, estimulando de esta Rights and Detention Watch Œ  expansión que expresa que amenaza a la seguridad publica, manera el encarcelamiento de Network, menciona que hay todo esto “como un primer paso la detención de inmigrantes y en base a ello determinar las inmigrantes. una vínculo directo entre la es innecesaria e inhumana”, necesidades de la institución y Como parte de la Reforma capacidad de la cárcel y el instituciones de detención”. informo el reporte. “El gobierno Œ de Inteligencia y el Acto de interés corporativo en las –Traducción de Los Estados Unidos debería primero que determine la Prevención contra el Terrorismo detenciones realizadas por por Marco Villa Estadisticas de Mortalidad en Prisiones Por Larry Smith condado fue debido principal- en las cárceles del condado 2006. prisiones estatales permaneció Escritor del Gremio mente a un incremento en el (40 suicidios por cada 100.000 A pesar del aumento en el constante, la tasa general de Periodistico número de fallecimientos por presos); sin embargo, la taza 2012, las muertes por causa mortalidad en las prisiones enfermedades (hasta un 24%). de suicidio disminuyó a un 4% del SIDA han disminuido a un incremento en un 2% en el De acuerdo a un estudio Estas muertes representaron en el 2012 y ha disminuido el 63% en las cárceles desde el 2012. El aumento del 2011 al federal, existieron 4,309 el 97% del aumento total de 17% a partir del 2000. Las en- 2000. La mayoría de las juris- 2012 fue ampliamente debido a muertes entre las cárceles fallecimientos en las cárceles fermedades cardiacas fueron la dicciones carcelarias, las cuales la disminución de la población locales y prisiones estatales del condado y las prisiones causa principal de las muertes forman el 81%, no reportaron en las prisiones. +/ en el 2012. La tasa general de en las cárceles del condado, au- muertes en el 2012, lo cual fue El Departamento de Justicia aumento del 2% (67 muertes) en mortalidad en las cárceles del mentando a un 14% en el 2012. consistente en años anteriores. de los Estados Unidos reporto comparación al 2011. condado aumento en un 4%, de La tasa de mortalidad a causa En el 2012, existieron 3,351 que las personas de 55 años o El número de muertes en las 123 muertes por cada 100.000 del SIDA en las cárceles del muertes en prisiones estatales, mayores, constituían el 55% de cárceles del condado aumento presos en el 2011 a 128 muertes condado aumento de 2 muertes de las cuales el 78% ocurrieron las muertes en las prisiones. de 889 en el 2011 a 958 en el por cada 100,000 presos en el por cada 100,000 presos en en una correccional, lo cual se Los presos masculinos repre- 2012. Este fue el primer aumen- 2012. el 2011 a 3 por cada 100,000 acerco al número de muertes en sentaron el 99% de los homici- to a partir del 2009. El aumento El suicidio continuo siendo la presos en el 2012, el cual fue el 2011 con 3,353. A pesar que el dios ocurridos en las prisiones de muertes en las cárceles del causa principal de las muertes el primer aumento a partir del número de fallecimientos en las estatales del 2001 al 2012, en tanto que el suicidio fue la cau- sa mas inusual de muerte entre las mujeres encarceladas del Brown’s Proposal Hopes 2001 al 2012. Independientemente de las causas de muerte, los presos To Overhaul Parole Eligibility tenían una tasa de mortalidad más alta en comparación con By Forrest Lee Jones The initiative is an effort to initiative would effectively re- its to all inmates, regardless of las mujeres encarceladas. Con Journalism Guild Writer return to indeterminate sen- peal nearly 40 years of deter- their charges or sentences, for la excepción de las muertes tencing, said Patrick McGrath, minant sentencing laws, and good behavior and approved causadas por el SIDA, los pri- The California State Su- Yuba County district attorney. authorize parole hearings for rehabilitative or educational sioneros anglosajones tenían " * “The emphasis has been on an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 achievements. el promedio anual más alto de its decision allowing Gov. Jerry this not affecting violent of- felons. In their mandate petition, mortalidad por enfermedades Brown’s proposed initiative for fenders, but I think most mem- Their suit said the initiative California District Attorney del 2001 al 2012. El porcentaje changing California’s parole bers of the public would be would repeal Proposition 8, the Association claims that the de muertes relacionadas con system to begin gathering sig- " % ’ Victims Bill of Rights, enacted Penal Code currently provides el SIDA fue alta entre los pri- natures for the November bal- a non-violent offense under the by voters in June 1982. Propo- that most prisoners could apply sioneros afro-americanos (18 lot. Penal Code,” McGrath told the sition 8 uses prior felony con- for parole after serving only 50 muertes por cada 100,000 pri- The March 9 decision was San Francisco Chronicle. victions to enhance any future percent of their sentences. sioneros estatales), lo cual fue the second time the court kept # = F criminal conviction. The pro- However, people convicted dos veces más alta en compara- Brown‘s crime initiative alive Judge Shellyane Chang ruled posed initiative would also ex- of violent crimes must serve 85 ción con los presos hispanos o by rejecting a request by state that Attorney General Pamela clude prior convictions in mak- percent of their time and those prisioneros de diferentes razas. prosecutors to halt signature- Harris should not have allowed ing prisoners eligible for parole. convicted of murder must serve Del 2001 al 2012, la tasa de gathering for the measure. Brown to submit his substantial Adult felons who commit 100 percent. That’s at least 68 suicidio entre los presos de 17 The proposed initiative revisions to an existing initia- multiple crimes against mul- percent of the California prison años o menores fue casi el doble would let some nonviolent tive without additional review. tiple victims would be eligible population, according to a 2012 con relación a los presos de criminals seek early parole and The governor appealed for early release similar to the report from CDCR’s Offender mayor edad. make it harder to charge juve- Chang’s ruling to the state Su- procedure for as inmates who Information Services Branch Las enfermedades cardiacas niles as adults, the San Fran- "|%- commit only one crime against Estimates and Statistical Anal- fue la causa principal de muerte cisco Chronicle reported. ing the justices that California’s one victim. ysis Section Data Analysis entre los presos del condado. Earlier, Mark Zahner, execu- long-term ability to comply Under the newly amended Unit. En tanto que el cáncer fue la tive director of the District At- with a federal court order to language, “alternative sentenc- Brown’s initiative, called causa principal entre los presos torneys Association, had said reduce its prison population es” involving increased pun- The Public Safety and Reha- estatales, con 10,122 muertes, he understood Brown’s inten- hinged on voters being given a ishment like the Three Strikes bilitation Act of 2016, requires seguido por las enfermedades tion to reduce the state’s prison chance to approve his plan, the Law would be excluded from 586,000 registered voter signa- cardiacas con 9,874 muertes. population, under federal court Times reported. the term of the current offense tures to qualify for the Novem- Las muertes por enferme- scrutiny, but that the proposed “If the Superior Court’s or- for many offenders. Thus, re- ber 2016 ballot. dad representaron más de la sentencing changes are “too der stands, the people will have peat offenders would be eligible The governor is termed out of mitad de las fatalidades en las much, too sweeping,” the Los been deprived of their right to to apply for early release at the +/¥<- cárceles del condado en el 2012, Angeles Times reported. use the initiative process to same time as inmates who have lion in his campaign account to mientras que las enfermedades Brown’s proposed initiative remedy problems that urgently no criminal histories. spend on his campaign, report- cardiacas continuaron siendo la would overhaul rules regarding require attention now,” Brown’s The current initiative would ed the Times. causa principal de mortalidad parole eligibility for inmates campaign attorneys wrote in give the California Department en las cárceles del condado en serving time for nonviolent their appeal. of Corrections and Rehabilita- ‡ ese mismo año, con un 28%. crimes and good behavior cred- The District Attorneys Asso- tion (CDCR) unilateral and un- jerrybrown.org/we_need_ –Traducción its for early release. ciation claimed the governor’s limited authority to award cred- your_help por Tare Beltranchuc April 2016 SAN QUENTIN NEWS www.sanquentinnews.com Page 15 NBC Report Sparks Death Row Debates

By Charles David Henry like) tossing people away.” Journalism Guild Writer Doug Clark insists he’s inno- cent of being the Sunset Killer. The tiers of San Quentin’s Since 1893, 422 convicts Death Row have not been open have been executed on San to the public for more than Quentin’s Death Row, either five years. All of that changed by hanging, the gas chamber or =^' lethal injection. Clarence Ray ~RFR- Allen was the last person ex- ate was one of the first report- ecuted in 10 years after spend- ers to recently see the current ing 23 years on these tiers. living conditions inside one Stanley “Tookie” Williams, of the world’s most notorious a founding member of the prisons. Crips, was also put to death As she prepared for this in 2005 after Gov. Arnold unique encounter with the Schwarzenegger rejected men living in the original Con- clemency for him, she reported. demned Row, Reid thought: In the past decade, the public “These inmates would be dis- support for capital punishment respectful and shout inappro- has dropped. The majority of File photo priate things.” It was just the inmates facing this sentence Death Row inmates enjoying their yard time on North Block’s rooftop opposite. want executions abolished. “If you kill someone for a crime men have been on Death Row The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of vember election, consultant life on Death Row is 23 hours … that they may have commit- for crimes committed in 1977. Appeals reversed his decision, Bill Zimmerman said. Chuck a day locked in a four-by-10- ted, what makes you different Today, the youngest inmate is the Sacramento Bee reported. Orrock, proponent for the foot cell. Keeping their sanity from a person that’s a murderer 23. The oldest is 85-year old As the death penalty remains death penalty, said, “I’m feel- is the biggest challenge, Reid on the street?” Charles Smith David Carpenter. in limbo in California, signa- ing confident.” said. Some of men still claim asked. In 2014, U.S. District Judge ture-gatherers are circulating If both measures should their innocence. Most inmates spend an aver- Cormac J. Carney struck down petitions for two November pass, the state Constitution Charles Edward Crawford age of 15 years on Death Row. the death penalty in California, ballot initiatives, one to abol- says the one initiative with II told her, “I don’t know that Since the death penalty was not because he necessarily op- ish the death penalty and one the most votes will take prece- there’s an amount of time that reinstated in 1977, 102 con- posed capital punishment, but to speed up the execution pro- dence. According to the Bee, you can give a person for the demned men have died of nat- rather because he found the de- cess. this legal concept has never crime I’m convicted of that ural causes. There are 746 in- lays so long that it amounted to The abolition initiative will been applied to competing would satisfy everyone; (it’s = cruel and unusual punishment. = ’= ~- death penalty measures. Initiatives Solicit Voters’ View About Death Penalty

Signatures are being solic- Included in this proposal is elimination of capital punish- and more than those that were in which juries did not unani- ited for two November bal- a scheme that would disregard ment in the state of California imposed by any state except mously recommend death, the lot initiatives that would ask the commentary period re- saw death penalty sentences &R" center reported. California voters to speed up quired by the state to approve decline sharply in 2015. Ac- shows “two-thirds of the 28 executions or repeal the death a new single-drug execution cording o the Death Penalty In- people executed in 2015 ex- penalty. method that would eliminate formation Center, “there were hibited symptoms of severe “I believe it highly One of the initiatives would the current three-drug execu- 28 executions in six states, the mental illness, intellectual require the state Supreme tions. fewest since 1991. There were disability, the debilitating ef- likely that the Court to rule on capital cases Egelko also reported that a 49 death sentences in 2015,” a fects of extreme trauma and death penalty within five years. It would also rival initiative would repeal 33 percent decline from what abuse or some combination of limit death penalty appeals, and replace the death penalty was already a 40-year low. the three.” violates the Eight set strict deadlines for filing with life imprisonment with- Three states, California, More than 20 percent of appeals and seek to expand the out the possibility of parole. ^ - death sentence imposed since Amendment” pool of death penalty lawyers. Sponsors for the abolition counted for more than half of 2010 were handed down by Any attorney who now initiative have raised more all new death sentences in the non-unanimous juries. This is “At least 70 Death Row pris- accepts court appointments than $1 million and both ini- country. The center reported a practice barred in all states oners with execution dates in to represent impoverished tiatives will need 365,880 val- “13 of the California death ver- ]" ^ 2015 received stays, reprieves defendants in criminal cases id signatures of registered vot- dicts were concentrated in four Delaware. Those states col- or commutations, 2.5 times the would also have to take on ers in 180 days in order to be Southern California counties.” lectively have” imposed 16 numbers who were executed.” capital cases, regardless of placed on the November bal- Riverside County by itself percent of death penalty cases The number of executions experience, reported Bob lot, said criminal trial lawyer imposed eight death sentenc- in the nation. However, more dropped by 20 percent compared Egelko of the San Francisco Charles Bell. es, 16 percent of all the new than a quarter of all death to 2014 from 35 to 28, “mark- Chronicle. Proponents supporting the death sentences in the nation sentences in 2015 were cases < = that fewer than 30 executions were carried out in the United States,” the center reported. Prison Recidivism Statistics are ‘Misleading’ “Most states in the union have abandoned the death penalty in By Marcus Henderson Prisoners released within and Hispanics than for Blacks. Most Released Offenders law or in practice,” according to Sports Editor three years were re-arrested at The recidivism rates for Never Return to Prison.” a report by the Charles Hamilton 67.8 percent, and 76.6 percent males were higher than fe- The paper was produced Houston Institute for Race Some criminal justice were re-arrested within five- males, regardless of the incar- by researchers at a public and Justice at Harvard Law experts say a federal report years, according to the report. ceration offense or the recidi- policy firm, Abt Associates School. The report shows 33 on prison recidivism is An estimated 28.6 percent vism period, according to the in Cambridge, Mass. jurisdictions, including 30 states misleading. of inmates were arrested for report. Neyfakh highlighted a and the District of Columbia, Critics who circulated the a violent offense within five- phone conversation with the federal government and report online argued that the years; 1.7 percent were for William Rhodes from Abt in the U.S. military, have either conventional wisdom about rape or sexual assault and 23.0 his article. formally eliminated the death recidivism in America is flatly percent for assault. “Following The discrepancy between penalty or have not carried out wrong. The majority of prisoners Abt’s findings and the federal an execution in the last nine In reality, two out of three released were arrested for a Incarceration, report, according to Rhodes, years. people who serve time in pris- public order offense, like fail- Most Released is that the BJS used a sample In 2015, a Religion Research on never come back, and only ure to appear, obstruction of population in which repeat of- Institute’s survey revealed 11 percent come back multiple justice or a legal response to Offenders Never fenders were overrepresented. that when asked the policy times, according to a Nov. probation or parole violations. “In truth what you have question which sentence they 2015 article in Slate. An estimated 39.9 percent Return to Prison” is two groups of offend- preferred as punishment for The Bureau of Justice were arrested for some other ers: those who repeatedly do people of murder, “a majority of Statistics (BJS) report in April public order offenses, which crimes and accumulate in Americans favored life without 2014 covered data from 30 included drunkenness, disor- Slate staff writer Leon prisons because they get re- parole over the death penalty.” states, including California. It derly conduct, liquor law vio- Neyfakh wrote the article captured, re-convicted and In the opinion of U.S. Supreme estimated recidivism patterns lation or a family-related of- on the federal study, citing re-sentenced; and those who Court Justice Stephen Breyer, of 404,638 persons – about fense. a recent paper published are much lower risk, and most “I believe it highly likely that a fourth from California- By the fifth year, the recidi- in the journal “Crime & of them will go to prison once the death penalty violates the released from 2005-2010, from vism rates for violent or drug Delinquency,” under the title and not come back,” Rhodes Eighth Amendment.” state prisons. crimes were lower for Whites % # said. –Charles David Henry Page 16 SAN QUENTIN NEWSwww.sanquentinnews.com April 2016 Type of Flowers Sent to Loved Ones

By Angelo Falcone Journalism Guild Writer # ^"=%[+ Asked On The Line =&=^"= “April showers bring May Saturdays. %%="%- ers would the men in blue send any color.” it is the traditional sign of ro- # ^" R \= = ^" / &] \= to their loved ones? And in Jesus Flores: “I think car- mantic love. I might also send š#'F›=^"/|‹ % ‘ ~ % nations are beautiful. I would her purple or bluish roses. I \= = ^" ^ color stood out. send carnations to the women would send my mom a mixture Professionals Day is on Wednesday, April 27. Sam Johnson: “I would send I love in my life: my mom, my of red, pink, and white roses # =\ my wife long-stem black roses. grandmother, my wife, and my but for family or loved ones, I Mercy is on Sunday, April 3, and the Annunciation I know they are actually very aunts.” %=%- of the Lord is on Monday, April 4. dark blue or purple roses, but at Chris Brown: “I would send ers in a variety of colors. I’ve # “%=@ = ] % =%"- %=^" Stephen Pascascio: “I would They would be purple, yellow, preciated.” # The World Almanac notes April is National Child send lilies to someone I love. I % Shakur Ross: “I would send Abuse Prevention Month, National Humor Month, would choose pink lilies.” Christopher Scull: “I love red roses mixed with blue vio- Wayne Villafranco: “I my mom and my girlfriend very lets to my loved ones.” and Stress Awareness Month would send long-stem red roses much, with all my heart. So I Quenton Walker: “It de- # There are two astrological signs in April: Aries, the to a woman.” would send them long-stem red " % # % sign of the Ram (March 21 to April 19) and Taurus, William Tolbert: “I would roses.” to. I would send a friend white the sign of the Bull (April 20 to May 20). send anything but red roses. I Jose Rivera: “I would send roses, but I would send my girl # April’s birthstone is the diamond. would prefer to send tulips of my girlfriend red roses because long-stem red roses.” Topic of Discussion: Felons’ Voting Rights Part 1

By Rahsaan Thomas being told about how powerful are an individual, it makes you Journalism Guild Chairman their vote is in local and federal feel like nobody.” R Yard Talk Curtis: “People of color are Many people are disgusted but that could be changed by a more apprehensive of voting with America’s problems, yet ballot proposition. In some of because they don’t think it they neglect the one remedy these close elections, had fel- immigrants or have criminal do what is actually better for works for them. They don’t see they have to do something about ons been allowed to vote, they records can’t vote (in many society.” a change in their environment.” them – voting, a group of San would have turned the tide.” states). In Mexico, people Q. Do you believe voting Johnson: “We have this idea Quentin inmates concluded. stopped voting because they makes a difference? in America that voting doesn’t = believe it is pointless. It’s set Johnson: “I absolutely think matter because politicians widely from state to state. In up, and the vote doesn’t really voting makes a difference, at control everything, and that’s California, convicted felons “When it’s a count.” least on a local level. Politi- not true. The government is cannot vote while in jail, in whole group Over 5.85 million Americans cians don’t always do their for the people, by the people. prison or on parole. They re- cannot take part in an election jobs, but when they don’t, we We have the power to protest, gain voting rights after clear- banding together, because of laws that bar con- can vote them out. get signatures and vote. If we ing parole. voting can have victed felons from voting, ac- was ousted (from the gover- ain’t happy, we can change Those sitting in the county cording to the Sentencing Proj- nor’s job) through recall. That leadership.” jail awaiting an outcome of an impact” ect Report. shows the vote is relevant.” In the concluding part of their case can still vote if they Curtis: “We passed Prop. Sanchez: “When it’s a whole this series, the Yard Talk panel aren’t on parole, according 36, then the courts came with group banding together, voting will discuss ways to motivate to Joe Paul of the Jericho Allowing felons to vote totally different rules about can have an impact. When you people to return to the polls. Vocational Center. would restore the right to well who it applies to. It’s a tricky Despite not being able to over 4 million Americans in issue...even if you voted for vote themselves, inmates the communities most neglect- something, the courts can use John “Yayah” Johnson, Jamie ed by politicians, according to their interpretation…that’s 18 SQ Students Sanchez and Eric Curtis met a Sentencing Project Report. why people of color don’t trust on San Quentin’s Lower Yard It was titled: “State-Level Es- voting.” discussed the importance and \- Sanchez: “I think there is a Graduate from power of the ballot box. (This chisement in the United States, mentality that politicians are %*"› 2010” by Christopher Uggen prioritizing what is politically Q. The last election had and Sarah Shannon. correct over prioritizing the Scripture Study a low turnout. Why do you Curtis: “They just took the right thing to do. They built believe people aren’t voting? ex-con box off job applications. this tough-on-crime idea that By Wesley Eisiminger one another. We became close Johnson:#- If you had that same push to get criminals need to be in prison Staff Writer brothers who are there for one nitely voters’ apathy, but part felons to vote, we would win.” forever, so it’s hard to go back another, which I’ve received, of the problem is people aren’t Sanchez: “People who are on their campaign pledges and Eighteen students have grad- and what I love about this F" program.” class, a 10-week program of Assistant teacher Stephan What You Need to Know About Holy Scripture study at the San Pascascio said, “We are prepar- Quentin Protestant Chapel. ing, going through these steps #%" as going to war for God.” Your Laudatory 128-B Chronos 12-month program aimed at In addition to Holmes preparing the students to be- and Barnes, the graduating A Correctional Counselor come ministers. students included Oscar (CC1) may not receive general The initial classes cover intro- Arana, Troy Dunmore, Perry or laudatory chronos (form ductions to the Old Testament Herron, Timothy Hicks, /*›- MAC Corner and New Testament of the Bible. Eddie Hollingsworth, James mates. Those documents must “This class has provided me Jenkins, Sam Johnson, Stephan be submitted directly to the and classes are offered at San *ˆ with a solid foundation to con- Pascascio, Pete Rook, Nathaniel Records Department by the pro- Quentin and after completing Nguyen, Men’s Advisory Coun- tinue to move forward on my Sparks, Anthony Thomas, gram sponsors. ª cil (MAC) secretary. journey,” said student Timothy Phuoc Vong, Javier Wesson, “This has always been the or chronos are issued to inmate % Holmes. “I wanted to learn as Rodney Williams, Steven Harris rule,” said General Population "" = = paper copies of chronos and much as I can about my Lord and Vadin Zakharchenko. Associate Warden J. Lawson. inmates got used to submitting = and Savior and develop a closer The course points out the Old “The staff sponsors or volunteer copies of their program chronos to the staff or volunteer spon- work with Him.” Testament has 39 books – the sponsors must submit the chro- - sor who signed them and ask The course was started by %] # ors to have them placed in their that sponsor to turn them into inmate/teacher Curtis Roberts 12 books are history, the next Records to be scanned. This is "* Records for scanning,” said about a year and half ago. He "=] to make sure that no fraudulent Subsequently, inmate re- Nguyen. said he started this class be- Œ ""= documents make it into their * “It will be a challenge, how- cause “God wanted to tell them and the last 12 are minor proph- š*› transitioned from traditional pa- - He loves them.” ecy. Inmates may be given a hard " "" " cates signed by staff or volun- Inmate Robert Barnes said, The students learn the New "= - % teers who no longer work at San “I joined this program within Testament has 27 books about cate for their own records, how- be “scanned” in. Quentin. The MAC will seek to a few weeks of coming to San Jesus and his Apostles and ever. “This will cause some delay Quentin. Our class began with %*% Several dozen programs in getting our old laudatory doc- –Angelo Falcone a group of men unknown to Jesus and life. April 2016 SAN QUENTIN NEWS www.sanquentinnews.com Page 17 Living in a Perpetual State of War By Juan Haines eryday trau- Staff Writer by authori- Whether or not Americans K$L ties. Trum- know it, we have been living in bo not only a state of perpetual war since Joe is a sympathetic char- ished states of being for the liv- wants the the 1950s. We have gotten used acter, who is easy to pull for ing. powers-that- to it and it has a distinct affect during his long struggle to “Johnny Got His Gun” be to be ac- on how we think about every- overcome his living conditions. delivers a strong impact for countable for thing from what’s good or bad, It is a struggle illuminated by anyone incarcerated; especially all citizens; right or wrong, or how we treat understanding the dark truth those doing time in isolation. It’s he want those each other. behind a witty writing style, a book that forces incarcerated who march Each of these matters is heavily dependent upon the readers to understand fully patriotically acknowledged and addressed concept of telling time and giv- what it means to do time, to off to war to through the hopes, persistence, ing readers plenty of time to tell time, to understand the know exactly and dark humor of protagonist think. meaning of life through time— what they are Joe Bonham, a casualty of Trumbo slyly asks readers perhaps even better than how getting into. World War I, in the National What do you want? through £ ‹ Under- Book Award winner, “Johnny Joe’s character, who responds “Man’s Search for Meaning” standing Got His Gun,” (1939) by Dalton by saying Let me out of here yourself and Trumbo. and take me back into the "" your position War survivor Joe Bonham world. %€ in life is im- is left without arms or legs, is Trumbo argues that the an- War II concentration camp, portant, no deaf, blind, and without speech. swer from anyone to What do wrote of how he survived one matter where Joe refused to accept the conse- you want? is centered on a state day to the next through future you’re living. quences of perpetual war and of happiness. possibilities and understanding And, know- found a way to tell it. His mind It doesn’t matter if you’re the limitations of the present. ing your im- was the only thing he had left locked up, the wealthiest per- “Johnny Got His Gun” takes pact on the son on the planet, or material- readers on a political ride that world, along to use it for...He only lay and istically and/or spiritually the bears a distinct anti-war mes- with your place, is just as im- plays, including “Spartacus”, tapped his message over and poorest; happiness is centered sage, which is quite a bit more portant. “Exodus”, “Papillon” and the over again to people on the out- on various forms of freedom R€€##"- The blacklisted Trumbo Academy Awarding-winning side who didn’t understand. from restraints, which are cher- - wrote more than 60 screen- “The Brave One.” Police Dramas Skew Views of the Justice System

By Emile DeWeaver diences don’t want to see that exoneration in the United Staff Writer some cops represent the prob- States. lems with the justice system. After you’ve read “Just & % !« “Yeah, it’s hard for people to Watch This Mercy,” please answer this: “Lucifer” depicts a lopsided see problems with law enforce- = /< ] view of America’s criminal ment,” said Jonathan Chiu. in their register) that occurred number when compared with a record year like 2015, how justice system, but that may be “They’re blinded by the Bernie “after it was discovered that the 2.3 million people in prison, many thousands weep in their the least of its sins. Madoffs of the world. I mean, "= but we invite such citizens cells because their stories of In “Lucifer,” Laura German look at O.J. Simpson. The framed dozens or hundreds of to read Bryan Stevenson’s innocence aren’t clear-cut plays Chloe Decker, a homi- majority of America thought innocent defendants.” “Just Mercy” to discover how enough, procedurally valid cide detective who struggles to he was guilty and his acquit- Some people may think the = enough, for exoneration by our be taken seriously by her male tal gives the average person 2,623 exonerations is a small an innocent citizen to secure murky system? co-workers. Tom Ellis plays the impression that this kind Lucifer Morningstar, the fallen of thing happens all the time. angel and beguiler extraordi- They think guilty people in nary. Morningstar is the dark court aren’t punished, so the CDCR Implements Pilot half of his and Decker’s buddy public gets outraged and says, cop-consultant team — think ‘Lock everybody up. We don’t ABC’s hit show “Castle,” but care how you do it. We just Program for Screening Visitors replace author Richard Castle want criminals in jail.’” with the Devil. “Your O.J. example does By Marcus Henderson them, she added. Interdiction Program (EDCIP). Lucifer loves quips and sex (in happen all the time,” DeWeaver Sports Editor Visitors already endure long In 2014-15, the Legislature that order). What distinguishes said. “Millionaires get away drives and may have their cars approved a two-year limited- him from Richard Castle is his with crimes, but the thing is California’s prison system searched in the prison parking term funding of $5.2 million obsessive compulsion to punish the 2.3 million people in prison says it is testing ion scan- lot. Once inside, they are sub- per year for the department to criminals and bad people who today aren’t millionaires. Some jected to pat downs, metal de- implement its EDCIP program. always turn out to be one and are even innocent and wouldn’t screen people who visit prison- tectors and having their clothes CDCR chose to place its ED- the same. be in prison if they’d had $5,000 ers in 11 correctional facilities. examined for dress code com- CIP pilot program in 11 insti- The SQ Reviews team meets to hire an average attorney.” The plan is to amend regu- pliance. tutions. The pilot placement is in a lot between the Education Contrary to the view that law lations to require visitors “to This can leave the visitor con- to gather understanding of the Department and San Quentin enforcement is powerless to submit to contraband and/or fused, humiliated and broken, effectiveness of the program News. The team discusses how bring law breakers to justice, metal detection devices..and/ some family members have told through the department’s vary- the mainstream media romanti- the members of SQ Reviews or electronic drug detectors the Essie Justice Group. ing custody levels, including cizes corruption in law enforce- know how effective the crimi- including, but not limited to, These new policies further male, female, camps and re- ment. Members of SQ Reviews nal justice system is at obtain- ion scanners,” the California discourage visitation, Clayton ception center facilities. %!«R ing convictions. It is so effec- Department of Corrections and contends. The Essie Group urg- The department’s canine “Second Chance” and NBC’s tive that defendants don’t even Rehabilitation reports. - program statewide currently “Shades of Blue,” two shows have to be guilty. CDCR asserts these regula- tive and a less humiliating ap- has 49 canine teams located " " - The National Registry of Ex- %"%- proach to keeping prisons safe in the Northern, Central and cers as protagonists whom the onerations (exonerationregis- traband, namely drugs and cell from contraband other than Southern California regions, viewer should support. try.org) registered 873 exonera- phones, into the prisons, ac- dogs and strip searches. according to the CDCR budget “Lucifer falls into the same tions that took place between cording to a January 2015 opin- The CDCR 2016-2017 budget proposal. category as these other corrupt 1989 and 2012, including 10 ion column by Gina L. Clayton. proposal states, “In the event The department has extend- cop shows,” I said. “How is it in exonerations that occurred af- She is executive director of a positive ion scan, visitors ed the written public comment the age of Black Lives Matters ter the person’s execution. Be- of the Essie Justice Group, … will be given the option of a period to April regarding the that media still cast corrupt au- tween 2012 and 2014 the rate an Oakland-based group of millimeter wave full body scan proposed amendments and the =‘ of registered exonerations in- women with incarcerated to detect drugs or contraband canine searches. “They’re playing to the con- creased by 46 percent to 1,304, loved ones. Its goals are to concealed beneath clothing. Clayton said that visitation fusion in society,” replied Juan and in 2015 registration set the empower women and end mass If visitors refuse the … mil- protects society as a whole; it Meza. “Everybody knows that record for a single year with 149 incarceration. limeter wave body scan, they helps inmates stay out of trou- there’s something wrong with exonerations. These new procedures af- will be allowed a non-contact ble and engage in rehabilitative our justice system. They think This is just registered fect women disproportionately, visit.” programs. Those inmates who it’s the criminal, and so they exonerations. The National Clayton said. Women and chil- CDCR is requesting $7.9 maintain loving and positive cheer for the dirty cop – been Registry of Exonerations dren make up the majority who million for additional equip- relationships with family are that way since Dirty Harry,” investigated 1,170 exonerations visit prisons and these proce- ‹- less likely to re-offend, studies said Meza. He added that au- (exonerations they don’t include dures place extra burdens on hanced Drug and Contraband show. Page 18 SAN QUENTIN NEWS www.sanquentinnews.com April 2016 Dungeons and Dragons on the Mainline By Marcus Henderson wolves, vampires and witches in Sports Editor the “World of Darkness.” They — The “gamer” phenomenon monsters in “Doom.” has invaded the San Quentin “These games help you inter- Mainline. A group of multira- act with a variety of people, and cial, multicultural prisoners has that builds your social skills,” forged a deep bond over Dun- said Evans. “No matter your age geons and Dragons and an array or what you’re into, everybody of cardboard character games. is equal when they come to the “A lot of people think we are table.” a bunch of nerds, but we are Another popular game is gamers. This is how we choose “Magic: The Gathering”. In- to spend our time and use our stead of dice, it’s played with creativity,” said George “Merso” cards. There are more than Cole-El. 5,000 cards that have pictures The non-electronic games are of lands, creatures and spells. fantasy based, where players The player has to build a deck take on the roles of heroes. Usu- of 40 to 60 cards with which to ally a group of six to seven play- play. Lacking the original cards, ers sets out on different “danger- the men transformed mountains ous” adventures. of pinochle cards to replicate The player who sets the scene the game. Land cards represent or paints the mental picture is money and have color codes. known as the Dungeon Master. You can buy artifacts, spells and The Dungeon Master decides enchantments that the gamers the threats the players will face Photo by Ralphaele Casale make up. and the rewards they will receive Jim Kitlas, Mike Oryall, George Cole-El, Gerry Grimes and Paul Stauffer “It’s like ‘Lord of the Rings’,” for accomplishing the quest. “%- “These games have real cre- The games are math-based. 100 high-pitched sounds that the combat. eo games, with each game you ativity,” said Cole-El. “All the They roll different shaped dice The games are a cross be- can reach different levels, de- creatures are mystical, and they that decide the stage of combat, meat-eating bats with a thirst for tween chess, Monopoly and pending on the experience you do combat. I actually get my character powers and armor blood. Risk. gain. anger issues out through these class. You have Lillenn, a seductive “After being a cancer in so- “You gain experience points games.” “You have to image yourself winged fairy with a snake body ciety, you get to play the hero,” when you defeat creatures, com- Most of the games are about %- from the waist down. There’s said Justus Evans. “That gives plete the story objective and use role-playing, where the play- tures popping up. Elements of also a demon named Urock, a you a different perspective of your problem-solving skill,” ers name their own characters. rain and thunder in the back- mix of man and a gigantic vul- society. Now I have a deeper said Michael “Sparky” Lain. They decide their personalities, ground and battles are taking ture. respect for people, property and The game is over when the abilities and what weapons they place. The dice gives hits and There are thousand of crea- humanity.” mission is accomplished and carry. damage points then you add tures that vary from game to The role-playing is therapeu- your character is still alive. They can choose standard or subtract those points,” said game. The groups play “Path- tic for some of the guys; they “A lot of people think we are weapons like long swords, battle £\& € \ become their ideal person, re- wasting our time,” said Cole-El. axes and long bows that can be He said the games give him and “Rift.” There are also a lieving aggression by using their “We are learning to multi-task, upgraded with magic spells by a a chance to use his imagination movie and video-theme games words and imagination. They how to think on our feet and di- wizard. and bring out different parts of like “Star Wars” and “Doom.” also can escape to different di- plomacy.” “It’s like playing a video game his personality though his char- All the rules are similar to Dun- mensions. “We want to bring the bonds or reading a book,” said Gerry acters. geon and Dragons with dice and “Star Wars” and “Rift” propel of unity back. We have an open- Grimes. “I choose my characters The creatures that might pop character sheets. gamers into a futuristic outer door policy. We’re not a clique; ="=# up are animals, devils, demons The guys decorated old Scrab- space, to battle space creatures, we are welcoming, because in the hands-on battles. I’m not and angels. "- spaceships and robots. the end, the heroes are supposed into the wizards.” Bat Swarm is a huge bat with ver around the board to resemble They can become were- to win.” Parolee Finds Redemption Through Basketball By Rahsaan Thomas his arrest and conviction. recorded a triple-double for His mother Mavis McKnight He’s had this dream, and he is Journalism Guild Chairman “My mom will tell you that the OOC Pirates when Coach and OCC Coach Spencer were on this journey to make that all I ever cared about was bas- Steve Spencer started Lee at by his side, smiling. dream come true. When we’re “ ‚ ketball,” said Lee. “She’d al- point guard. He had 17 points, “I’m just so proud of him,” young, we don’t always get it. was unimportant in his hoop ways tell me I needed a Plan 15 rebounds and 10 assists. McKnight said. “I’m proud of We have to grow into stuff. I’d dreams, and he wound up in B. But I never saw past Plan He has dropped 29 points the man he has turned out to say he is working Plan B now, prison. Now, at age 33, he’s A, which was basketball. I twice and once grabbed 22 re- be and the fact that he pushed and things are coming togeth- redeemed himself by securing wanted to play in the NBA. bounds. through and didn’t give up. er for him.” a Vanguard University basket- But, I was finally sane enough He’s a unique player, Spen- ball scholarship with his focus to appreciate what education cer said. “He’s our best scorer, on getting his degree. could do for me. And once I rebounder, passer and leader Lee is in pursuit of a bach- saw that, I’ve been going hard and not just because he is old- elor’s degree in order to be- after that degree.” er, but because of how he is come a teacher and a coach, Potholes littered the path to and how he plays. He handles according to an article in the getting his degree. The father himself in a classy, dignified Daily Pilot newspaper. of two daughters started out at mature way.” “When I realized I wanted Orange Coast College (OCC). His performance on the ball to further my coaching expe- At the time, he was separated court and in the classroom rience and my resume wasn’t from his wife when he made earned him the Vanguard strong enough to do what I the decision to forsake work- scholarship. knew I wanted to do, school ing to play basketball. Lee “You always have to ask OUR ROAD became an option,” Lee said. said that “accelerated the di- questions any time you are in- PRISON PROJECT “And I thought basketball vorce process.” terested in signing a guy who could be part of that too. I Additionally, Lee had to sit doesn’t take the traditional FREE WORK SHOP FOR FAMILIES OF LIFERS knew I could still play.” out the 2014-2015 season with path to get here,” Vanguard REGISTER AT: ourroadprisonproject.org As a youth growing up in Orange Coast College due to Coach Rhett Soliday said. Housing: Prison to Community: Long Beach and South Cen- an eligibility stipulation that “But the more I got to know Wed., April 13, 6-8 PM tral Los Angeles, he chased required he maintain a 4.0 Jamaal and spend time with Satellite Affordable Housing Associates the allure of a spot on a NBA grade-point average and take him, the more I believe not Madison at 14th Apartments team. However, academics 19 units. only is he the right fit for the 160 14th Street and logistics kept Lee off his Lee’s basketball talent and special community that Van- Oakland, CA 94612 high school team, and failing hard work earned him the guard is, he’s going to add a 8;8O; Speaker: Keith Wattley to remain eligible ended his scholarship to start his junior ton to it. He is going to be a re- Wed., May 11, 6-8 PM attempt to play for the College year with Vanguard Univer- freshing and energizing pres- O$&U of the Canyons in 2002. sity. He averaged 17.1 points ence in our community.” City Council Chambers Lee’s subsequent attempt to and led the state with 12.7 re- Lee signed a letter of intent <$O"V play for New Mexico High- bounds per game. to play for Vanguard Univer- O$&'>?@

By Marcus Henderson passing of new youth offender to Iowa. I was 11 years old, Sports Editor rules. and I didn’t want to be there. “It’s not a day that goes by Now looking back, it was super The San Quentin Giants where you wish you can take petty,” said Appley. baseball team is entering spring back the things you did as a Appley returned to California training with two of its best kid,” said Dumont. “You just at age of 18. He was drinking pitchers ready to unleash their have to make amends for those and doing drugs, which ulti- powerful arms. Jeff “Duey” bad decisions.” mately led to the crime. Dumont and John Appley will be Appley added, “Knowing I “I thought moving back would ready to keep batters off balance took someone’s life, I owe it to solve the problem. But things while playing the sport they say my victim to live an honest and stayed the same because I stayed makes them better people. forthright life, the best I possi- the same. I don’t blame anyone Dumont believes that sports bly can live.” but myself,” said Appley. at San Quentin is one of the best “Being a baseball player you He credits programs like Ad- self-help groups. have to put your ego aside. You diction Recovery Counseling “You get to interact with peo- have to take constructive criti- and AA for helping him to un- ple from different backgrounds Photo by Lt. Sam Robinson cism. You have to know they derstand the factors that led to and religions,” said Dumont. Jeff “Duey” Dumont are not attacking you personally his abuse of drugs and alcohol. “That helps you understand oth- but helping you become a better Appley said he recognizes ers. You learn how to compro- winning are that you have to player.” these social skills reduce harm- mise.” have a positive dugout and He said the best teams win ful behavior.

Dumont credits his pitch- = "= % because they play together. “I’m just grateful to be at a Photo by Lt. Sam Robinson whether you are at the plate or ing coaches over the years with “I try to limit my walks. I place like San Quentin where John Appley teaching him the right way to on the mound. don’t like putting guys on base you have a lot of programs.” play. “You can’t let your emotions that didn’t work for it. But, if I He said the baseball program incarcerated people. “This is a team, and I have get away from you and stay get in a jam, I know I have a de- helps in rehabilitation because it “It’s about communication to a job to do just like everybody patient,” said Dumont. fense behind me,” said Appley. provides a healthy, competitive let people know we changed and else,” said Dumont. Dumont thinks he has a legiti- “Growing up, I had anger environment where outside that we are remorseful for the Dumont said the keys to mate chance to parole with the issues after my family moved visitors can interact with things we did,” said Appley. Brian Asey Hangs Up His Crown By Rahsaan Thomas the side of the backboard and (Antonio) Manning the most,” Journalism Guild Chairman went into the razor wire,” said said Asey. “Manning and I had Asey. “Thad stop talking to me this thing where I told him to go At the start of the San Quentin for two weeks.” hard on me all the time; that way Kings 2016 basketball tryouts, Although Asey won’t be suit- it only makes me better. That one person was notably missing ing up anymore, he isn’t leaving was our little thing.” – last year’s team captain, Brian the Kings. Now Manning will be practic- Asey. “It’s sad to see him leave as a ing with the new 2016 Kings in- “A legend retires,” said Kings player, but we are excited about cluding Tare “Cancun” Beltran, Head Coach Orlando Harris. him moving on to become the ˆ=& “I am retiring because my new general manager of the Demond Lewis, Aubra-Lamont body won’t let me play at the lev- Kings,” said Harris. “Coocoo” McNeely, Oris “Pep” el I want to play at,” said Asey. Asey added, “I look forward Williams, Charles Sylvester, J. “Also, I am so busy. Basketball to the outside guests coming “Mailman” Ratchford, Derrick is my outlet; I really don’t want in. I’ll still be out there to greet Holloway, D. “Zayd” Nickolson, to retire, but I want to give some them.” Whitney Vardel Jackson, Joseph others guys a chance to experi- Off the court, Asey has been Kelly and other practice squad ence what I experienced as a productive. players: Kevin Carr, Timothy King. I could still play.” “Today, I’m going to college, Long and Jamal Green. The Kings are a 40 and older I am trying to build SQPR, and “I think Holloway is gonna basketball team. They play Photo by Ralphaele Casale I’m a curator for TEDx,” said have a calming effect on the of- against outside community Brian Asey (White Kings Uniform) defended Asey. “That was my biggest ac- fense. Zyad brings a lot of en- members, who come into the by Bittermen Player Rob Ebner complishment thus far. Today I ergy, hustle, and he’s an excel- prison on Saturday afternoons. == lent post player, and Green is an don’t get mad no more. Basket- “That was an all-time classic.” The father of two is proud that excellent defender that can be a 40, being on the Kings is like ball is my release, my getaway. According to Wallace-Stepter, his hard work on TEDx paid off. phenomenal player,” said Har- playing for the pros of the It helps me to forget about my it was windy with three sec- The event featured Curtis “Wall ris. prison. Outside competitors problems.” onds winding down when Asey Street” Carroll and California Asey believes new King re- have included former semi-pro In California State Prison-So- changed the plan. Inspector General Robert Bar- cruits like Holloway will make Will Wheatly, who played for lano, Asey played in basketball “I was supposed to get the ton. great replacements. F' leagues. There he met league ball to Thad, but I was wide Asey says he’ll miss practic- “I like Holloway,” said Asey. former Claremont-McKenna & open, and I shot the ball from ing with the Kings. “I step out; he steps in. I wish he College players like Chris Blees “Me and Thad used to battle the corner by the bench. It hit “I will miss practicing with had played when I was playing.” and Patrick Lacey. in Solano,” said Asey. “I tried At 49, Asey may still be seen everything to beat their team.” playing pickup games, but he ^=" Audrey Auld walked away from a long career becoming teammates on the of organized sports. He says he Kings in 2012. 1964 -2015 played guard for all three of the “I got here in December 2011, - made the team and was elected ing caused Asey’s transfers captain,” said Asey. “We were from Lennox High School to =šF Davis Star Jordan in Watts. He Quentin) Warriors didn’t want says he also played football for to scrimmage us.” those schools. As a King, his scoring high Additionally, Asey says he was 32 points in a 2014 game. played for two midnight leagues, Asey says his most memo- one in Long Beach and the other rable King moment came in a in San Pedro. game where the Kings were The Day of Peace committee would like to invite all San Quentin general At 21, Asey started coming down by one point with the ball population inmates to join us on April 23, 2016 in celebrating our 6th back and forth to prison over and only seconds left on the Annual “Peace Day”. Come out and support what “Peace” is in your own life issues stemming from his drug clock. King’s Assistant Coach use. He continued to play bas- # "= and how your practice of peace contributes in our San Quentin community. ketball in prison. Scheduled to Perform: “I use basketball as an outlet, post. The other team had no an- John Carter Cash Band, Mike Miller, and it helps me confront a lot % R Coalition Hip Hop and Blame Sally of my issues, like arguing and post-up move. getting mad,” said Asey. “You Shadeed Wallace-Stepter Thank You, Day of Peace Committee Members very seldom see me get mad. I recalled the game and added, Page 20 SAN QUENTIN NEWSwww.sanquentinnews.com April 2016 Documentary Examines Immigrant’s Journey By Juan Haines against the school-to-prison Staff Writer pipeline, organize grass roots efforts against mass incarcera- An hour-long documentary tion, and inform policy makers about an ex-offender who spent on the impact incarceration has nearly two decades behind bars on inmates. and then sought forgive-ness Zheng said the funding through non-violence advocacy allows him to travel around made its premiere for an audi- the country to talk about these ence of nearly 100 prisoners, issues. =^@#- The funding also allows landers. Zheng to work on reentry and “Breathin’: The Eddy Zheng jobs programs for returning Story” debuted at San Quentin citizens and to build support F@ networks. & = = & — in the making, was scheduled to Zheng said. “I cannot go back make its debut to the free world in time, but I can heal and help on March 11 to a sold-out audi- Photo by Eddie Herrena- San Quentin News other people deal with inter- ence in Oakland. World premiere of the Eddy Zheng documentary at San Quentin generational trauma.” At the age of 16, Eddy Zheng Zheng was honored at San received a life sentence after shame because of his crime and said. “Even if you think your told him that he’d better be a =™F* confessing to a home invasion incarceration. dreams and hopes are lies, don’t good son from now on and give handedly bringing the African- robbery. “It was disgrace,” Zheng’s give up. Hope is what keeps us her a “chubby grandson.” American and Asian communi- The family Zheng criminal- mother said. She said she couldn’t going. Even when you only see Scenes were shown of Zheng’s ties together.” ized consisted of two children, tell Zheng’s grandfather about rejection, don’t give up.” wedding, and the chapel audi- “I am who I am today, be- a mother and father. The his grandson’s incarceration Zheng was given a release ence erupted in applause. cause the community gave me father, now in his ‘90s, lives in because of shame. “No way!” date after his 12th time before “If we have that breath, there a second chance,” Zheng said Chinatown. She exclaimed. the parole board after spending is hope,” Zheng said. “I always in the documentary. “The day “The kids have always op- Zheng said that he wants to 19 years incarcerated; however, tell youngsters on the streets, if I stop struggling, I stop breath- posed my release and stay in validate the words and feelings facing deportation, he spent two you stay ready, you don’t have ing.” this country,” Zheng said. “I al- of the victims of his crime. years in an immigration deten- to get ready.” On Easter Sunday, 2015, ways wanted to make amends.” “I don’t know when the op- tion facility. After winning his Last June, Zheng received Zheng received a full pardon & " % ¬ portunity will come for me to case in federal court, his mother an 18-month grant to advocate from Gov. Jerry Brown. standing inside a San Quentin help my victims heal,” Zheng prison cell. said. “It may sound vain, but ¬- if I live a productive life, then tailed accounts of a confession maybe making a difference in he says he does not remember. preventing violence could help “I had an urge to get on my them heal.” knees and ask for forgiveness,” Zheng wrote an apology let- Zheng said. He said his shame ter to seek forgiveness from his kept him from doing so. crime victims’ family. “The victims did nothing “I had to wait for the right wrong, but they will have suf- time,” he said. “I did not want ferred for the rest of their lives to open old wounds.” for what I did,” Zheng told the ==R" make him make a life anywhere “What hurt most is that we but here,” one of the victims couldn’t feel safe in our own said in the documentary. home,” said one victim, who After being denied parole was a child at the time Zheng 10 times, Zheng said that he committed the home invasion believed that all his hopes and robbery. dreams were shattered, “We Photo by Eddie Herrena- San Quentin News Zheng explained his family’s believe that they were lies,” he Audience watching the journey of Eddy Zheng Criminal and Gangs Anonymous Welcomes New Members By Charles David Henry our intentions, we must protect God’s care and protection, as and, whenever wrong, had the Journalism Guild Writer our communities,” said Cory we understood God. courage to admit it. Willis. Self Examination Step: 11. We sought to improve on Not long ago, they terrorized He is chairman of a group 4. We searched our past thor- spiritual awareness through inner cities across California called Criminal and Gangs oughly, making inventory lists prayer and meditation with God, on a mission of criminal de- Anonymous. Since 2012 it has of the good we have done and asking for guidance to being struction, intimidation, may- emerged into a 12-step pro- our wrongs and resentments to- decent and responsible to our- hem and death, targeting other gram that helps men come to ward others. selves and more caring toward gang rivals with malicious in- the realization that a crimi- 5. We sought forgiveness from others. tent. nal mind is a terrible thing to God, ourselves and admitted to 12. We, each experiencing a On many occasions, there waste. The group’s chief spon- someone we trusted, the wrongs spiritual awakening by apply- was more gun play and rapid £ we have done. ing these steps, freely share our exchange of gunfire from with joy when she told the au- 6. We made personal commit- truth and experiences with oth- semi- and automatic weapons CGA Logo dience “how proud I am to be ment to abandon “our” defects ers like us and continue living in than on a shooting range. said Walker. involved with this program.” of characters, to practice decent good orderly direction in all our “There was a time I felt it “The California justice sys- The 12-step program focuses reasonable conduct through dai- affairs. was my responsibility to elimi- tem is quick to charge and put its curriculum on the Cycle of ly actions and behavior. nate Crips,” said former Blood enhancements on an individu- Addition. Here are samples: 7. We honestly recognized were welcomed into the fra- gang member Cedrick Walker. al’s criminal activity,” he said. Surrender Step: our shortcomings whenever bad ternity of Criminal and Gangs But, today he has come full “But it’s systemically slow 1. We reviewed our past, ad- habits surfaced, promptly cor- ^== circle. His spirituality is about indicting local police officers mitting a lack of strength and recting our thinking and actions. They are: “getting rid of all of that mad- for their wrongful behav- control over our addictions to Working Step: Upumoni Ama, ness.” ior. We’ve lost control of the all forms of illegal activity and 8. We made a thorough list of Vikram Billa, The result of this activ- streets in our neighborhoods, that our lifestyle was neither all those we had harmed, real- Raphael Calix ity was “senseless and tragic,” and something has to be done decent nor manageable. izing how our negative actions Marvin Cosby F ' about it in a hurry.” 2. We became willing to be- impacted their lives, become Eduardo Delpapena % In 2011, a gang member lieve that change is possible by willing to make amends to them Howard Jones mothers lost sons and daugh- from the Bloods and one from learning a different way of liv- all. Son Nguyen ters to a war on crime over Crips met at San Quentin after ing through suggestions from 9. We made direct amends and Charles Nicholson which America’s law enforce- having served time at other those who have trudged the restitution whenever possible to Jerome Oates ment agencies have no control. prisons. They decided it was path of recovery before us out the persons we injured except Randall Kimani “America is quick to invade time to do something about of insanity. when doing so would cause Edgar Lalazar the homeland of foreign sover- the violence perpetrated in 3. We made a decision to let further injury or harm. Harry Sassounian eign nations around the world, California’s depressed, mis- go of destructive self-will in Maintenance Step: Garth Smith but somehow it can’t stop the understood and under-served exchange for spiritual princi- 10. We continue daily to take a Andrew Videau violence in our communities,” communities. “In acting upon ples becoming willing to seek personal inventory of ourselves Eric Warner