Dear friends, I’m writing to share some updates regarding the current COVID-19 crisis as it pertains to our community at San Quentin and beyond. As many of you know, last week we made the painful decision to suspend all programming at San … [Read more...]
November 2019: Letter from the Executive Director
Published in the November 2019 newsletter, which you can read in its entirety here. One of the most remarkable aspects of San Quentin as a community is the way it has evolved over time as a meeting ground for people from diverse social, cultural, … [Read more...]
Jody Lewen gives keynote address at “Symposium on Transformative Education in Prison and Beyond”
The following paper, "Imagining Incarcerated Students," was given by Jody Lewen at the Symposium on Transformative Education in Prison and Beyond at the University of Wyoming March 29-30, 2019. The topic of this paper is how incarcerated students … [Read more...]
April 2019: Letter from the Executive Director
Published in the April 2019 newsletter, which you can read in its entirety here. One of the first things I learned about higher education in prison was about the devastation wrought by the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, … [Read more...]
