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A man with long, braided hair in a blue prison jumpsuit stands next to a much shorter woman in front of a table of books.

In San Quentin Program, Participants Reckon With Their Pasts and Lobby for Statewide Change

Incarcerated Women Plead for Help After Central Valley Prison Death Amid Extreme Heat

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California Prison Officials Aim to Raise Hourly Minimum Wage for Incarcerated Workers — to at Least 16 Cents

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Advocates Push Back Against California Prisons' Strip-Search Policy

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California Overturned Her Murder Conviction. ICE Still Wants to Deport Her

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Documents Show How California Dept. of Corrections Handles Racism Among Officers

Cartoon: a prison guard holding a "no vax mandate" sign is arm in arm with a COVID-19 character and Gov. Newsom. The governor holds a briefcase of money from the prison guards union. Caption is "Amicus Covidae, friend of covid."

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A Mark Fiore cartoon showing "exhibit A," inmates being moved to San Quentin from Chino even though they were infected with COVID-19, then, "exhibit B," inmates mixed with the San Quentin population, then "exhibit COVID," and 75% of prison population infected and 28 deaths.

Cruel and Unusual and Coronavirus

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Court Hearing Examines Whether San Quentin’s Deadly COVID-19 Outbreak Could Have Been Prevented

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