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Following Long Delays, San Quentin Habeas Case Moving Forward After Friday Conference

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|Date: October 19, 2020
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Following Long Delays, San Quentin Habeas Case Moving Forward After Friday Conference

By Anika Khubchandani MARIN COUNTY – After months of delays, San Quentin Prison habeas case to release pr ...

By Anika Khubchandani MARIN COUNTY – After months of delays, San Quentin Prison habeas case to release prisoners in light of the threat to COVID-19 shows promise of moving forward efficiently with Mar ...

October 19, 2020
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“The numbers tell only half the story” – Narratives From San Quentin On COVID-19 Data – Weekly Highlights From CDCR’s COVID-19 Crisis

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|Date: October 18, 2020
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“The numbers tell only half the story” – Narratives From San Quentin On COVID-19 Data – Weekly Highlights From CDCR’s COVID-19 Crisis

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives SAN QUENTIN - Accounts from an incarcerate ...

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives SAN QUENTIN - Accounts from an incarcerated individual at San Quentin State Prison unveils the unsanitary and unsafe living conditions in ...

October 18, 2020
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First Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed Against San Quentin, Hearing In Habeas Case To Release 50% Of CDCR Population Underway, CDCR Continues ICE Transfers During Pandemic – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 In CDCR

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|Date: October 05, 2020
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First Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed Against San Quentin, Hearing In Habeas Case To Release 50% Of CDCR Population Underway, CDCR Continues ICE Transfers During Pandemic – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 In CDCR

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives The sight of his sister through the ...

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives The sight of his sister through the barbed wire fence at Folsom State Prison was supposed to mark the end of a grueling 22-year se ...

October 05, 2020
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A Visual Storyline Of COVID-19 Across CDCR Facilities – Trends In Cases & Testing

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|Date: September 20, 2020
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A Visual Storyline Of COVID-19 Across CDCR Facilities – Trends In Cases & Testing

By Julietta Bisharyan & Nick Gardner ...

By Julietta Bisharyan & Nick Gardner ...

September 20, 2020
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Families Of Those Who Died From COVID-19 In San Quentin File Wrongful Death Lawsuits, Outbreak In Folsom State Prison Continues – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|Date: September 20, 2020
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Families Of Those Who Died From COVID-19 In San Quentin File Wrongful Death Lawsuits, Outbreak In Folsom State Prison Continues – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives In an excerpt shared with The Marsh ...

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives In an excerpt shared with The Marshall Project, incarcerated writer Michele Scott testifies to the conditions within the world’s l ...

September 20, 2020
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Incarcerated Narratives Detail Harrowing Experiences during COVID-19, Gavin Newsom Signs Legislation Allowing Incarcerated Firefighters to Pursue Careers in Fire after Prison, COVID-19 Cases Continue to Rise – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|Date: September 13, 2020
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Incarcerated Narratives Detail Harrowing Experiences during COVID-19, Gavin Newsom Signs Legislation Allowing Incarcerated Firefighters to Pursue Careers in Fire after Prison, COVID-19 Cases Continue to Rise – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives SAN QUENTIN, 9 July 2020 --- For th ...

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives SAN QUENTIN, 9 July 2020 --- For the past three days, Thanh Tran laid in a fetal position fighting off COVID-19. In Tran’s buildin ...

September 13, 2020
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Incarcerated Narratives From San Quentin Compare Quarantine To Solitary Confinement, 2 More COVID-19 Deaths This Week – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|Date: September 06, 2020
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Incarcerated Narratives From San Quentin Compare Quarantine To Solitary Confinement, 2 More COVID-19 Deaths This Week – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives Lee'lannee Wade-Denard’s husband co ...

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives Lee'lannee Wade-Denard’s husband contracted COVID-19 back in July while serving time at San Quentin Prison. Although he has since ...

September 06, 2020
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Incarcerated Artist Chronicles Life in San Quentin Prison During Pandemic

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|Date: August 30, 2020
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Incarcerated Artist Chronicles Life in San Quentin Prison During Pandemic

By Julietta Bisharyan SAN QUENTIN –– For the past 21 years, Orlando Smith has sat in his prison cell, fil ...

By Julietta Bisharyan SAN QUENTIN –– For the past 21 years, Orlando Smith has sat in his prison cell, filling his 250-year-long sentence with art as an illustrative journalist and comic book artist. T ...

August 30, 2020
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“I’m seeing COVID-19 knock us all down in a line, just like dominoes.” – Narratives From San Quentin – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|Date: August 23, 2020
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“I’m seeing COVID-19 knock us all down in a line, just like dominoes.” – Narratives From San Quentin – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives Incarcerated writer Rashaan Thomas ...

By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives Incarcerated writer Rashaan Thomas recently shared an excerpt with Business Insider discussing the state of COVID-19 inside San Qu ...

August 23, 2020
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Health Officer Analyzes San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak in Letter to Judge

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|Date: August 20, 2020
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Health Officer Analyzes San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak in Letter to Judge

By Pavan Potti MARIN – In the tight and compressed environment of prison, a powerful virus like COVID-19 ...

By Pavan Potti MARIN – In the tight and compressed environment of prison, a powerful virus like COVID-19 has an enhanced chance of spreading, it didn’t help San Quentin State Prison on June 1 when 122 ...

August 20, 2020
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CA Corrections Purposely Ignored Health Warnings; Led to Largest COVID-19 Outbreak in U.S. at San Quentin

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 17, 2020
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CA Corrections Purposely Ignored Health Warnings; Led to Largest COVID-19 Outbreak in U.S. at San Quentin

Special to The Vanguard SAN FRANCISCO – A more than 400-page pleading here charges today that the Califo ...

Special to The Vanguard SAN FRANCISCO – A more than 400-page pleading here charges today that the California Dept. Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) ignored the Marin County Health Official warni ...

August 17, 2020
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40 Incarcerated People At San Quentin File Petition Seeking Immediate Release As Outbreak Violates Eighth Amendment Rights – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|Date: August 16, 2020
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40 Incarcerated People At San Quentin File Petition Seeking Immediate Release As Outbreak Violates Eighth Amendment Rights – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

(Dashboard updates daily M-F) By Julietta Bisharyan and Mella Bettag Incarcerated Narrati ...

(Dashboard updates daily M-F) By Julietta Bisharyan and Mella Bettag Incarcerated Narratives Despite the outbreak raging through San Quentin, several journalists from the San Quentin n ...

August 16, 2020
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Press Conference Held to Discuss the San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak, 26 Deaths to Date

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 13, 2020
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Press Conference Held to Discuss the San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak, 26 Deaths to Date

By Dominique Kato After months of warning about the potential health consequences of COVID in prison, San ...

By Dominique Kato After months of warning about the potential health consequences of COVID in prison, San Quentin and CDCR as a whole has emerged with a public health crisis—critics charge largely of ...

August 13, 2020
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Incarcerated People At San Quentin Tell Harrowing Stories of COVID-19 Rampage – Protests For Better Health Conditions & More Releases – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|Date: August 09, 2020
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Incarcerated People At San Quentin Tell Harrowing Stories of COVID-19 Rampage – Protests For Better Health Conditions & More Releases – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

(Dashboard updates daily M-F) Incarcerated Narratives As releases continue throughout the ...

(Dashboard updates daily M-F) Incarcerated Narratives As releases continue throughout the CDCR system, we hope to tell more of the individual stories of incarcerated people during this ...

August 09, 2020
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Commentary: Yolo DA’s Office Takes to Fox News to Push Agenda

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|Date: August 05, 2020
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Commentary: Yolo DA’s Office Takes to Fox News to Push Agenda

Remember when the Yolo DA was touted by local media as being one of the most progressive in the state? Th ...

Remember when the Yolo DA was touted by local media as being one of the most progressive in the state? That seemed like just two years ago. But now Assistant Chief Deputy DA Melinda Aiello once again ...

August 05, 2020
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Efforts to Release Incarcerated from San Quentin Move Forward in Marin County Superior Court

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|Date: July 29, 2020
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Efforts to Release Incarcerated from San Quentin Move Forward in Marin County Superior Court

Habeas petitions allege that California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation actions constitute “ ...

Habeas petitions allege that California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation actions constitute “cruel and unusual punishment” as decisions led to an explosive and deadly Covid-19 outbreak at ...

July 29, 2020
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A Visual Timeline of COVID-19 in CDCR’s San Quentin – May to July 2020

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|Date: July 27, 2020
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A Visual Timeline of COVID-19 in CDCR’s San Quentin – May to July 2020

By Nikki Suzani, Julietta Bisharyan & Mella Bettag A Visual Timeline of COVID-19 in CDCR (Focus on Sa ...

By Nikki Suzani, Julietta Bisharyan & Mella Bettag A Visual Timeline of COVID-19 in CDCR (Focus on San Quentin) - Testing, Cases, Releases (May 2020 - July 2020) May 30th 2020: Chico Transfer 121 ...

July 27, 2020
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Board of State and Community Corrections Gives CDCR $15 Million For Housing Newly-Released Individuals Due to COVID-19 – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

Posted by Aparna Komarla
|Date: July 26, 2020
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Board of State and Community Corrections Gives CDCR $15 Million For Housing Newly-Released Individuals Due to COVID-19 – Weekly Highlights – Breaking Down COVID-19 in CDCR

(Dashboard updates daily - M-F) By Julietta Bisharyan & Mella Bettag CDCR Confirmed COV ...

(Dashboard updates daily - M-F) By Julietta Bisharyan & Mella Bettag CDCR Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Outcomes As of July 24, there are a total of 7,481 confirmed COVID-19 cases in ...

July 26, 2020
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California Assemblymember Advocates for Cell Phones in Prisons

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|Date: July 22, 2020
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California Assemblymember Advocates for Cell Phones in Prisons

By Kelsey Kitzke LOS ANGELES – California Assemblymember Sydney Kamlager, whose district covers parts of ...

By Kelsey Kitzke LOS ANGELES – California Assemblymember Sydney Kamlager, whose district covers parts of Los Angeles, advocated for the expansion of cell phones in California state prisons in a video ...

July 22, 2020
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San Francisco DA Looks to Resentence Incarcerated People under New State Law

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 20, 2020
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San Francisco DA Looks to Resentence Incarcerated People under New State Law

Ten days ago, legislators and reformers gathered at San Quentin to call for Governor Newsom to release pr ...

Ten days ago, legislators and reformers gathered at San Quentin to call for Governor Newsom to release prisoners in following recommendations from public health experts to stem the rampant outbreak of ...

July 20, 2020
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