“I’m seeing COVID-19 knock us all down in a line, just like dominoes.” – Narratives From San Quentin
By Julietta Bisharyan and Nick Gardner Incarcerated Narratives Incarcerated writer Rashaan Thomas recently shared an excerpt…
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…
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…
40 Incarcerated People At San Quentin File Petition Seeking Immediate Release As Outbreak Violates Eighth Amendment Rights
(Dashboard updates daily M-F) By Julietta Bisharyan and Mella Bettag Incarcerated Narratives Despite the outbreak raging…
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…
Incarcerated People At San Quentin Tell Harrowing Stories of COVID-19 Conditions – Protests For Better Treatment & More Releases
(Dashboard updates daily M-F) Incarcerated Narratives As releases continue throughout the CDCR system, we hope to…
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…
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 “cruel and unusual punishment” as…
A Visual Timeline of COVID-19 in CDCR’s San Quentin
By Nikki Suzani, Julietta Bisharyan & Mella Bettag This visualization is created by the Covid In-Custody Project — an…
BSCC Gives CDCR $15m For Housing Newly-Released Individuals Due to COVID-19
(Dashboard updates daily – M-F) By Julietta Bisharyan & Mella Bettag CDCR Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and…
California Assemblymember Advocates for Cell Phones in Prisons
By Kelsey Kitzke LOS ANGELES – California Assemblymember Sydney Kamlager, whose district covers parts of Los Angeles,…
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…
6 Individuals on San Quentin’s Death Row Died of Coronavirus, Shortage of Firefighters due to CDCR Quarantines
By Julietta Bisharyan & Mella Bettag California firefighting forces are still lacking in numbers after four…
Guest Commentary: Prisons Are Overwhelmed with COVID-19 – Why Aren’t Governors Doing More?
How governors respond to this pandemic will define their legacy. They all face a choice: save lives…
35 Prosecutors Call on Governors to Reduce Prison Populations to Limit COVID-19
On Friday, 35 elected prosecutors representing over 31 million people across the country issued an open letter…
This Week’s COVID-19 Timeline in State Prisons: 8,000 to be Released – Too Little, Too Late?
By Bella Mettag SAN FRANCISCO – As COVID-19 cases and death tolls continue to rise within state…
Legislators, Advocates and Criminal Justice Leaders Attempt to Pressure Governor to Respond to San Quentin COVID Crisis
With COVID cases at San Quentin soaring from none to over 1400 in just under a month,…
Open Letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom from Criminal Justice and Prison Scholars
More than a decade ago you showed courage, initiative, and deep commitment to human rights and dignity…
Letter: Recommendations for Reducing the Prison Population and Protecting People in California Prisons
by Mano Raju This is an immeasurably difficult time. With 2,419 incarcerated persons with active cases of…
My View: Is CDCR Executing Incarcerated People at San Quentin by COVID?
In March of 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom suspended the death penalty in California, arguing at the time,…